WPLG
3900 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami
,
Florida
33137
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WPLG, Miami
Fascinating, revealing, fun: words to describe a genealogy, one's personal history. With the help of computer technology, more and more people have tracked their own ancestral roots. People learn of personality traits handed down through generations, they learn of the locales where their great-great grandparents originated, and so on.Local 10 tracks its roots to the Washington Post, a publication founded in 1877 with a circulation of 10,000. By 1946, Eugene Meyer, the paper's owner, was appointed by president Harry Truman to be the first president of the World Bank. Meyer, in turn, promoted his son-in-law, Phillip L. Graham from the assistant publisher slot to publisher -- the paper's circulation then was less than 200,000. Upon his death in 1963, Graham's wife Katharine became president of the company.In January 1967, the station -- then WLBW -- moved to its current location at 3900 Biscayne Blvd. It was under the ownership of L.B. Wilson and Co., a group that bought the station from
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