Post-Newsweek Stations

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Post-Newsweek Stations is the official name of the broadcasting division of the Washington Post Company and is a self-contained corporation within that company. The company is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan in headquarters shared with Post-Newsweek's station in that market, NBC affiliate WDIV-TV and is headed by president and chief executive officer Alan Frank, formerly general manager of WDIV.

As of 2006, Post-Newsweek owns 6 VHF stations, all of which are in the Top 50 markets. All but one has a network affiliation.

What today is Post-Newsweek Stations originated as WTOP, Inc. in 1949 when CBS sold 55% (controlling interest) of WTOP-AM 1500 in Washington, D.C. to the Post. CBS retained a 45% stake. In 1950, WTOP bought WOIC-TV, Washington's CBS affiliate, and changed the calls to WTOP-TV. CBS was forced to sell its remaining interest in WTOP in 1954. The Post then merged WTOP-AM-FM-TV with recently-purchased WMBR-AM-TV in Jacksonville, Florida and changed the company's name to Post Stations, Inc. WMBR-AM was later sold off; the Post changed WMBR-TV's calls to WJXT. The company adopted the Post-Newsweek name after the Post bought Newsweek in 1961. Soon thereafter, Post-Newsweek purchased radio station WCKY in Cincinnati, Ohio which was sold in 1978.

In the wake of a panic swap of its Washington broadcast properties to the (Detroit) Evening News Association for their Detroit stations in 1978, the Post decided to spin off their broadcasting interests into a company of its own. The Post-Newsweek name itself would later spread to the Post-owned cable operations (now known as CableOne and a company identical in structure to Post-Newsweek Stations).

Current DMA#	Market	Station ... Channel Number (DT)	Current Affiliation	Acquired	Notes
10.	Houston	KPRC-TV 2 (35)	NBC	1994
11.	Detroit - Windsor	WDIV-TV 4 (45)	NBC	1978	Flagship station
16.	Miami - Fort Lauderdale	WPLG 10 (9) / W47AC 47	ABC	1969	Also seen on translator W47AC in The Florida Keys.
19.	Orlando - Daytona Beach - Melbourne	WKMG-TV 6 (26)	CBS	1997	Was WCPX until 1998.
37.	San Antonio	KSAT 12 (48)	ABC	1994
50.	Jacksonville	WJXT 4 (42)	Independent	1954	The oldest station in the market and second overall in Florida. Was CBS until 2002

Post-Newsweek also owned two other television stations in the past, ironically both were at one time or another company flagships.

Current DMA#	Market	Station ... Channel Number	Years Owned	Affiliation	Current Owner	Notes
8.	Washington	WTOP-TV 9	1949-1978	CBS (now WUSA)	Gannett Company	Flagship from 1949-78, headquarters until 1986. Was WDVM-TV under Detroit News ownership, took WUSA calls in 1986.
28.	Hartford - New Haven	WFSB 3	1974-1997	CBS	Meredith Corporation	Flagship from 1986-97, housed PNS headquarters until 2000

The call letters of several Post-Newsweek stations are symbolic of persons who have had associations with the group.

WPLG: Phillip L. Graham, former publisher of the Post who died in 1963.
WKMG: Katharine Meyer Graham, widow of Phillip Graham who would take his place heading the group.
WFSB: Frederick Scott Beebe, then-president of Post-Newsweek Stations.