 WSVN - Newscasts: Encyclopedia II - WSVN - HistoryWSVN signed on in 1956 as WCKT, an NBC station owned by the Cox and Knight publishing families, the publishers of The Miami News and The Miami Herald, respectively. In 1962, the Cox-Knight partnership, which operated under the name "Biscayne Television Corporation", lost its license (due to circomstances that are unknown for now) and was forced to sell WCKT by the FCC. Shortly afterward, a new company, "Sunbeam Television Corporation", acquired the station and assumed ownership on December 19, 1962, with the station licensed as a new station, using the same WCKT calls.
In 1983, Edmund N. ("Ed") Ansin acquired Sunbeam and, shortly after ...
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