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station_logo = [[Image:Wpbf_abc25.jpg]]|

station_slogan = ''Where '''You''' Come First''|

station_branding = ''WPBF TV 25'' (general)<br>''WPBF News 25'' (newscasts)|

analog = 25 ([[Ultra high frequency|UHF]])|

digital = 16 (UHF)|

affiliations = [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]<br>[[The AccuWeather Channel|AccuWx TV]] (on DT2)|

founded = [[January 1]], [[1989]]|

___location = [[Tequesta, Florida|Tequesta]] - [[West Palm Beach, Florida]]|

callsign_meaning = '''W'''est '''P'''alm '''B'''each, '''F'''lorida|

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'''WPBF''' is the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]-affiliated [[television station]] for the [[Treasure Coast]] area of [[Florida]]'s east coast. Licensed to [[Tequesta, Florida|Tequesta]], the station broadcasts an analog signal on [[UHF]] channel 25 and a digital signal on UHF channel 16. WPBF's transmitter is located south of [[Fort Pierce, Florida|Fort Pierce]] and [[Interstate 95|I-95]] in [[Martin County, Florida|Martin County]]. The station's studios are located on RCA Blvd. in the Monet section of [[Palm Beach Gardens, Florida|Palm Beach Gardens]]. WPBF is owned by the [[Hearst Corporation]] and operated by [[Hearst-Argyle Television]].

'''Anarcho-syndicalism''' is a branch of [[anarchism]] which focuses on the [[labor union|labor movement]], Syndicalisme is a French word meaning "[[trade unionism]]" hence the "[[syndicalism]]" qualification. Anarcho-syndicalists view labor unions as a potential force for revolutionary social change, replacing [[capitalism]] and the [[State]] with a new society democratically self-managed by workers. Anarcho-syndicalists seek to abolish the wage system and private ownership of the means of production, which leads to class divisions.

The station offers [[The AccuWeather Channel]] on its DT2 digital subchannel as well as via live streaming video on its website. The weather channel is known on-air as ''Weather First TV''.

==Features of Anarcho-syndicalism==

The basic principles of anarcho-syndicalism are:

==History==

# Workers’ solidarity

WPBF first went on the air [[January 1]], [[1989]] owned by Brenda Skipper and Sylvia Salinas. The original plans called for the station to be an [[Independent station|independent]]. However, in mid-[[1988]] [[CBS]], which was due to lose its longtime [[Miami]] - [[Fort Lauderdale]] affiliate [[WTVJ]] to [[NBC]], bought [[FOX]] affiliate WCIX (now [[WFOR-TV]]). WCIX only provided a Grade B ("rimshot") signal to Fort Lauderdale because its transmitter was located farther south than the other Miami - Fort Lauderdale stations. CBS persuaded the longtime ABC affiliate in West Palm Beach [[WPEC]] to switch to CBS in order to get a city-grade signal in Fort Lauderdale. In the fall of [[1988]], ABC made the decision to affiliate with WPBF rather than with the former CBS affiliate [[WTVX]]. These changes occurred on the day of WPBF's sign on.

# [[Direct action]]

# [[Workers' self-management]]

Also before signing on, WPBF had bought a large inventory of classic sitcoms and cartoons, but did not have any time in its broadcast day to air them due to ABC affiliation. It sold this programming to WTVX a couple of months later when that station shut down its news department.

[[Image:Flag of Anarcho syndicalism.svg|200px|left|thumb|Flag used by Anarcho-syndicalists.]]

Initially, WPBF had a small news department. In [[1993]], WPBF was sold to [[ion Media Networks|Paxson Communications]] (which at the time owned several FM radio stations and a few ABC and CBS affiliates), who added additional newscasts to the schedule. In [[1997]], Paxson sold their radio stations and network affiliates (including WPBF) in order to finance their acquisition of stations for the PAX TV network (now [[ION Television|ION]]), with channel 25 going to Hearst Corporation, its current owner. As soon as the transaction was finalized, Hearst handed over control of WPBF to its majority-owned subsidiary, Hearst-Argyle Television.

Workers’ solidarity means that anarcho-syndicalists believe all workers, no matter their [[gender]] or [[ethnic group]], are in a similar situation in regard to their bosses ([[class consciousness]]). Furthermore, it means that, within [[capitalism]], any gains or losses made by some workers from or to bosses will eventually affect all workers. Therefore, to liberate themselves, all workers must support one another in their [[class conflict]].

All Hearst-Argyle ABC affiliates including WPBF preempted ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'' in [[2004]]. WPBF was one of three ABC affiliates in Florida that preempted the movie.

Some anarcho-syndicalists believe that only [[direct action]] &mdash; that is, action concentrated on directly attaining a goal, as opposed to indirect action, such as electing a representative to a government position &mdash; will allow workers to liberate themselves.

On [[July]] 12, [[2006]], WPBF started a 30 minute 4 PM weekday newscast called ''Weather First at 4''. While the main intention of this new broadcast iswas to cover West Palm Beach area weather, news updates and headlines were also added. The weather portions are anchored by Chief Meteorologist Mike Lyons and meteorologist Felicia Rodriguez. The news portions are anchored by Jon Shainman and Tiffany Kenney. The 4 PM newscast can be seen via live streaming vidio on the station's website. WPBF is the only West Palm Beach station to air a 4 PM weekday newscast.

Moreover, anarcho-syndicalists believe that workers’ organizations &mdash; the organizations that struggle against the wage system, and which, in anarcho-syndicalist theory, will eventually form the basis of a new society &mdash; should be self-managing. They should not have bosses or “business agents”; rather, the workers should be able to make all the decisions that affect them themselves.

On [[July 17]], WPBF added 30 minutes to its weekday morning newscast, which then began airing at 5:30 AM.

[[Rudolf Rocker]] was one of the most popular voices in the anarcho-syndicalist movement. He outlined a view of the origins of the movement, what it sought, and why it was important to the future of labor in his [[1938]] pamphlet ''Anarcho-Syndicalism''.

WPBF remains the lowest rated network affiliated television station in the West Palm Beach Market behind [[WFLX]], [[WPEC]], and [[WPTV (TV)|WPTV]] (in ascending order). This can be attributed to [[WPLG]]'s very strong over the air signal in Palm Beach County and its availability on [[Comcast]] cable systems throughout the area. WPLG is the highested rated local television station in all [[South Florida]], which also includes WPBF's market area.

[[Hubert Lagardelle]] wrote that [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]] laid out the fundamental theories of anarcho-syndicalism, through his repudiation of both capitalism and the state, his flouting of political government, his idea of free, autonomous economic groups, and his view of struggle, not pacifism, as the core of humanity.

Unlike many other network affiliates in the area, WPBF does not air a weekday Noon newscast. Also, the station does not have a sports department.

The [[International Workers Association]] is an international anarcho-syndicalist federation of various labor unions from different countries. The [[Anarchism in Spain|Spanish]] [[Confederación Nacional del Trabajo]] played and still plays a major role in the Spanish labor movement. It was also an important force in the [[Spanish Civil War]]. Another Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union, the [[Confederacion General del Trabajo de España]], is now the third largest union in Spain and the largest anarchist union with tens of thousands of members.

==News Team==

The anarcho-syndicalist orientation of many early American labor unions played an important role in the formation of the American political spectrum, most significantly of the [[Industrial Workers of the World]]. The United States is the only industrialized ("first world") country that does not have a major labor-based political party. See ''It Didn’t Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States'', [[Seymour Martin Lipset]] and Gary Marks, ISBN 0-39-332254-8.

WPBF's [[weather radar]] is known as "Weather First True View" and is located north of West Palm Beach.

'''Anchors'''

Rudolf Rocker wrote in ''[[Anarcho-Syndicalism (book)|Anarcho-Syndicalism]]'':

*Jim Abath - weekday mornings (also reporter)

:“Political rights do not originate in parliaments; they are rather forced upon them from without. And even their enactment into law has for a long time been no guarantee of their security. They do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace”

*Bryce Daniels - weekday mornings

*Jon Shainman - weeknights at 4, 5:30, and 6 PM

*Tiffany Kenney - weeknights at 4, 5:30, and 6 PM (also health reporter)

*Lisa Hayward - weeknights at 5 and 11 PM

*Kristin Hoke - weeknights at 5 and 11 PM

*Corey Saban - Saturday nights and Sunday nights at 6 PM (also reporter three days a week)

*Angela Rozier - Sunday nights at 11 PM (also reporter)

'''''Weather First Specialists'''''

==Organizations==

*Mike Lyons - Chief seen weeknights[[Image:NWASoA.jpg|29px]]

[[Image:LondonSocialCentreRussellSquareSquat1 20060329KaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|right|The "London Social Centre" [http://londonsocialcentre.org.uk/], a [[squatting]] action by [[anarcho-syndicalism|anarcho-syndicalists]] in [[Russell Square]].]]

*Felicia Rodriguez - weeknights at 4 PM

*Eric Burris - weekday mornings [[Image:AMSSoA.jpg|25px]]

*Kate Wentzel - weekends [[Image:AMSSoA.jpg|25px]][[Image:NWASoA.jpg|29px]]

* [[International Workers Association]] (IWA-AIT)

* [[Associação Internacional dos Trabalhadores - Secção Portuguesa]] (AIT-SP) Portugal

* [[Anarho-sindikalisticka inicijativa]] (ASI-MUR) Serbia

* [[Awareness League]] Nigeria

* [[Confederación Nacional del Trabajo]] (CNT-AIT) Spain

* [[Confèdèration Nationale du Travail]] (CNT-AIT) France

* [[Direct!]] Switzerland

* [[Federace Sociálních Anarchistù]] (FSA-MAP) Czech Rep

* [[Federação Operária do Río Grande do Sul - Confederação Operária Brasileira]] (FORGS-COB-AIT) Brazil

* [[Federacion Obrera Regional Argentina]] (FORA-AIT) Argentina

* [[Freie Arbeiter- und Arbeiterinnen Union]] (FAU) Germany

* [[Konfederatsiya Revolyutsionnikh Anarkho-Sindikalistov]] (KRAS-IWA) Russia

* [[Norsk Syndikalistik Forbund]] (NSF-IAA) Norway

* [[Priama Akcia]] (PA-IWA) Slovakia

* [[Solidarity Federation]] (SF-IWA) Britain

* [[Unione Sindacale Italiana]] (USI) Italy

* [[Workers Solidarity Alliance]]

* [[FESAL]] (European Federation of Alternative Syndicalism)

* [[Confederación General del Trabajo de España]] (CGT) Spain

* [[Ελευθεριακή Συνδικαλιστική Ένωση]] (ESE) Greece

* [[Freie ArbeiterInnen Union Schweiz]] (FAUCH) Switzerland

* [[Industrial Workers of the World]] (not explicitly ''anarcho''-syndicalist: see above)

* [[SKT]] Siberian Confederation of Labour

* [[Syndikalistiska Ungdomsförbundet]] (SUF - Syndicalist Youth League) Sweden

* [[Sveriges Arbetares Centralorganisation]] (SAC) Sweden

* [[Antiauthoritarian Movement| Antiauthoritarian Movement (Αντιεξουσιαστίκή Κίνηση)]] (ΑΚ) Greece

'''Reporters'''

==Books==

*Amanda Burden

*[[Rudolf Rocker]], ''[[Anarcho-Syndicalism (http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/rocker/sp001495/rocker_as1.html)|Anarcho-Syndicalism]]''

*Brian Albert

*Bonny Ghosh

*Cathleen O'Toole

*Marianne Milano - website host

*Amanda Salinas - also fill in anchor

*Terri Parker - investigative reporter

*Traci Mitchell - National Correspondent

*Laurie Kinney - National Correspondent

*Sally Kidd - National Correspondent

==See alsoAdministration==

*Joseph J. Coscia - News Director

*[[general strike]]

*Steve Boyer - Assistant News Director

*[[syndicalism]]

*Caroline Scollard - General Sales Manager

*[[Council Communism]]

*Ryan Rothstein - Local Sales Manager

*[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]] (Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here)

*Mark Prutisto - Director of Integrated Media

==External links==

* [http://www.iwa-ait.org/ International Workers Association - IWA-AIT]

* [http://www.cnt.es Confederación Nacional del Trabajo - CNT-AIT]

* [http://www.ecn.org/usi-ait Unione Sindacale Italia - USI-AIL]

* [http://www.inicijativa.org Anarho-sindikalisticka inicijativa - ASI-MUR]

* [http://www.fau.org Freie Arbeiter- und Arbeiterinnen Union - FAU-IAA]

* [http://www.cnt-ait-fr.org Confèdèration Nationale du Travail - CNT-AIT]

* [http://www.solfed.org.uk Solidarity Federation - SF-IWA]

* [http://www.kras.fatal.ru Konfederatsiya Revolyutsionnikh Anarkho-Sindikalistov - KRAS-IWA]

* [http://www.fsa.anarchismus.org Federace Sociálních Anarchistù - FSA-MAP]

* [http://direct.perso.ch Direct!]

* [http://www.resistance2003.gr/ Antiauthoritarian Movement/Αντιεξουστιαστική Κίνηση (ΑΚ)]

* [http://www.workersolidarity.org Workers' Solidarity Alliance]

* [http://www.ese.gr/ Ελευθεριακή Συνδικαλιστική Ένωση (ESE)]

* [http://www.anarchosyndicalism.net Anarcho-Syndicalism 101]

* [http://www.libcom.org/library Libertarian Communist Library - Contains Many Anarcho-Syndicalist Texts]

* [http://www.retailworkers.org/ IWW Retail Workers]

* [http://www.syndicalist.org/ Anarcho-Syndicalist Review]

* [http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bookchin/ghost2.html ''The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism''] A criticism by [[Murray Bookchin]]

* [http://www.insurgentdesire.org.uk/syndicalism.htm ''The Bourgeois Roots of Anarcho-syndicalism''] by Feral Faun

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