CW17 signed on 55 years ago as WJKS
Channel 17 began broadcasting on Feb. 19, 1966
Dave Hall, WCWJ promotions director
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The station we know as CW17 today has a rich history in Jacksonville broadcasting.
Channel 17 signed on February 19, 1966, as WJKS, Jacksonville’s first full-time ABC affiliate. Rust Craft, primarily known as a greeting card company, built the station. It confidently declared it was ready to “create our own shock wave of interest,” serving a market that had been without a full-time ABC station long enough.
Programming in this first ABC phase included numerous panel discussion shows, telethons, as well as children s news briefs (News For Little People) and an innovative, concise 5:55 p.m. newscast that broke the day s top stories literally minutes before the competition.
in case you missed it, we want to blah blah blah, in case you missed it, i can t talk. in case you missed it, we want you to meet ethan sunnenborn, a 14-year-old student from vermont, a democratic candidate for governor. for real, he is on the ballot right now in vermont. and he totally qualifies, by the way, vermont s state law has no age requirement for gubernatorial candidates. this is no stunt either. ethan has an official campaign website and has raised campaign funds and he more than held his own in a recent televised forum on vermont s channel 17. the most important thing we can do is built this image of vermont of a state that s open