Miami ABC affiliate WPLG is putting its own spin on the station’s loss of the network affiliation after nearly seventy years.
The affiliation will move to WSVN Channel 7, which already carries Fox programming, on August 4, a day which general manager E.R. Bert Medina labeled Independence Day.
“We made a generous offer to ABC, but it became clear the two sides were not going to agree to a new deal,” WPLG CEO and president E.R. Bert Medina told staff at the time…