Blab Television is a cable television station located on Cox Cable channel 6 in Pensacola, Florida

Pensacola, Florida

Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle and the county seat of Escambia County, Florida, United States of America. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 56,255 and as of 2009, the estimated population was 53,752...

, USA and MediaCom channel 38 in Santa Rosa county. Since 1984, it is locally owned with Fred Vigodsky as the president. Programming consists entirely of local Information Programs, both 30 and 60 minute format, both live in the studio and taped. A live stream of the station's broadcast is also available on the web at Blabtv.com along with numerous Video-On-Demand programs. One of the station's hallmarks is that it delivers over 40 hours of live programming a week. The station is located downtown on Palafox Place in Pensacola, across the street from the Pensacola Saenger Theater.

Though Blab audiences aren't usually measured in traditional rating surveys, in 1986 the Nielson company did include BLAB in an incidental survey. Neilson finding showed the viewership of the two year old station was higher than every other pensacola channel. except the three major network affiliates. At the time, Blab attracted more viewers than CNN

CNN

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, WGN

WGN

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, and WTBS

TBS (TV channel)

TBS , stylized in the logo as tbs, is an American cable television channel owned by Time Warner that shows a variety of programming, with a focus on comedy. TBS was originally known as WTCG, a UHF terrestrial television station that broadcast from Atlanta, Georgia, during the late 1970s...

 combined.

Joe Scarborough

Joe Scarborough

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 used Blab TV in his 1994 campaign to run for Florida's 1st congressional district and became the first Republican

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 to represent this district since its formation in 1900, and the first freshman Republican to represent the Florida Panhandle

Florida Panhandle

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since 1879.