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WESH

WESH is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand WESH rather than just read about it. In short: WESH (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Daytona Beach, Florida, United States, serving the Orlando area as an affiliate of NBC. It is owned by Hearst Television alongside Clermont-licensed CW affiliate WKCF (channel 18).

Key takeaways

WESH belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect WESH to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of WESH from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

WESH (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Daytona Beach, Florida, United States, serving the Orlando area as an affiliate of NBC. It is owned by Hearst Television alongside Clermont-licensed CW affiliate WKCF (channel 18). The two stations share studios on North Wymore Road in Eatonville; WESH's primary transmitter is located on Brown Road near Christmas, Florida, with additional transmitters in Orange City and Ocala. WESH began broadcasting on June 11, 1956. The original permittee was W. Wright Esch, former owner of a Daytona Beach radio station. In its first year of operation, it was an independent station with a signal that mostly served the Daytona Beach area from facilities in the nearby town of Holly Hill. In 1957, the station began broadcasting at higher power from a tower near Orange City, becoming receivable in Orlando, and affiliated with NBC. After adding Orlando to its coverage area, it opened a second studio in the Orlando suburb of Winter Park. Cowles Communications acquired the station in 1965. During its ownership tenure, WESH endured a decade-long challenge to its broadcast license by a Daytona Beach–based group which protested the increasing shift of station operations to the Orlando area. The challenge became of national interest when an appeals court's verdict implied that existing licensees enjoyed less of an advantage in the renewal process. During this time, WESH typically rated second in Orlando-market news ratings. Cowles sold WESH to H&C Communications in 1984. H&C built new studios for the station in the Daytona Beach and Orlando areas, including the present main studio in Eatonville. Pulitzer Publishing acquired WESH in 1993; news ratings declined during the first years of its ownership. Under news director Bill Bauman, the station deemphasized crime news and won national attention for doing so, but ratings success did not follow until after Pulitzer sold its broadcast stations to Hearst in 1998 and Orlando's traditional market leader, WFTV, struggled in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Hearst acquired WKCF in 2006, creating a duopoly.

History

Early years In 1952, channel 2 was allocated to Daytona Beach. The owners of two local radio stations applied for permission to use the channel. First was W. Wright Esch, through Telrad, Inc.; Esch owned WMFJ. He was shortly followed by WNDB, the radio station of the Daytona Beach Evening News and Morning Journal, which proposed a much higher-power station than Esch. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) designated the two applications for hearing in February 1954, but before the hearing began, WNDB withdrew, leaving Telrad unopposed. On July 8, 1954, Telrad obtained the channel 2 construction permit. Telrad planned to operate channel 2 as WMFJ-TV in studios shared with the radio station in Holly Hill and stated at the time that it hoped to have the TV station in operation within a year. In May 1955, Esch announced the sale of a majority interest in WMFJ to Harold Kaye and E. J. Arnold, with Esch intending to focus his energies on building channel 2. It was the second time Esch had agreed to sell the radio station. In late 1954, Theodore Granik and William H. Cook contracted with Esch to buy WMFJ and the channel 2 permit. After the Kaye–Arnold sale of WMFJ was announced, they sued Esch. Original plans to build a tower near Orange City were set aside for the time being, and work began on a tower at the studio facility site in Holly Hill. At Holly Hill, the tower could be no higher than 300 feet (91 m), while at Orange City it could be up to 1,000 feet (300 m). Esch announced in February 1956 that he was seeking to sell nearly all shares in Telrad to John H. Perry, Jr., and his company, WCOA Inc. Perry owned newspapers, radio stations, and one television station: WJHP-TV in Jacksonville. The FCC initially approved the sale on April 27, at which time Perry announced plans to open WESH-TV in June and his hopes to affiliate with NBC. WESH-TV began broadcasting on June 11, 1956. Esch was the first person seen on the new station, introducing Daytona Beach to television as he had to radio 21 years prior with WMFJ. Only one of its two planned studio cameras was on site; a camera and staff from WJHP-TV were seconded to Holly Hill to aid the startup. Negotiations with NBC were still ongoing but had yet to bear fruit. Most of the station's programming was filmed, with 10 percent consisting of live programs, among them newscasts, hosted movies, and a Western-themed children's show. After WESH went on the air, Florida courts ruled in favor of WESH and against Granik and Cook. In February 1957, WESH revealed its plan for a tower at Orange City, which received final construction approval in June. It was held up by stations in Orlando, which believed that a site near Bunnell would provide additional service to unserved viewers than Orange City, which would bring WESH's signal into the Orlando area. WESH signed an affiliation agreement with NBC in July, ending speculation on whether WESH or the new Orlando station WLOF-TV (channel 9, now WFTV) would be given the affiliation, and announced it would begin work on the Orange City tower. At the time, there was only one network-affiliated TV station in Central Florida, WDBO-TV (channel 6, later WCPX-TV and now WKMG-TV), which was a primary CBS affiliate but aired some programs from NBC and ABC. Though WLOF-TV obtained the ABC affiliation, it was not on the air yet, and WESH signed for selected ABC programs. The network affiliation and new transmitter facility went into use on November 2. At the same time, Perry reallocated employees to WESH from WJHP-TV, which shut down on October 25 as a result of its struggles as an ultra high frequency station. By 1960, WESH had opened a second studio in Winter Park, a suburb of Orlando. Network programming was received at Winter Park and microwaved to Orange City for transmission. A 1964 profile of the station in Variety described WESH's Winter Park studios as its "main studios".

Cowles ownership and license challenge In 1965, Cowles Communications, Inc. acquired WESH-TV from Perry Publications. In 1969, the Holly Hill studio was updated to allow the origination of local color programs from the Daytona Beach area.

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Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with WESH

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what WESH claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to WESH before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about WESH ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of WESH

In research: WESH appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses WESH in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: WESH is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1956 establishments in Florida, ATSC 3.0 television stations, Hearst Television, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for WESH outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study WESH in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what WESH means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain WESH out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is WESH in simple terms?

Why does WESH matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study WESH?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on WESH.