WPONE-TV

WPONE-TV is the Rainbow Dash Network station serving Perry, Florida. It broadcasts on channel 7.

History
WPONE-TV signed on the air on April 2, 1956 as WVEN-TV. It was an independent station. The station had it rough from the start. It could never compete with the dominating ABC, CBS, NBC, RKO and later on ABN stations that were in the Perry, FL market. As a result, no advertiser would want to advertise on the station because no one will see it. Eventually WVEN lost a lot of money. 95% of the staff on WVEN were laid off by 1965 but some stayed with the station hoping that it could pull through. Bills were being unpaid and WVEN dug a huge hole that they couldn't get out of. On December 17, 1967, during a rerun of I Love Lucy, the electric company pulled the plug on WVEN and took it off the air. The station never returned until January 26, 1970 under new management. It was still an independent station. In 1994, WVEN ditched it's independent status and became the area's Hyper Network affiliate. They stayed as the Hyper station until 2000 when Hyper 7 became UPN SE7EN. When the UPN Network shut down in 2006, WVEN was left without an affiliate so it once again reverted back to independent until 2011 when it affiliated with the new Rainbow Dash Network and changed the call letters to WPONE-TV.

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