In 1991, eight cable providers volunteered to move The Disney Channel to their expanded basic cable packages, instead of offering it as a premium channel ; Jones Intercable was the first provider to carry the channel as a basic network, initially carried on the Basic Plus tier on its Fort Myers and Broward County, Florida systems as a test run.

During the 1904 gubernatorial race, the strongest candidate, Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, based a significant portion of his campaign on draining the Everglades.

His work, The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith, with music on the life of Bessie Smith, was named " one of the top-10 Off-Broadway experiences of 2001 " by the New York Daily News, " Best Solo Show " by Florida's Broward / Palm Beach New Times, and won a second NYFA Playwriting Fellowship ( 2000 ).

At 5 p. m. on November 14, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris announced that she had received the certified returns from all 67 counties, while Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties were still conducting manual recounts.

Florida Department of Corrections operates the Region IV Correctional Facility Office on the grounds of Broward Correctional Institution in the former Country Estates CDP.

On November 9, 2007, in the Central Broward Regional Park, the Main Event cricket field was opened, and on May 22, 2010, became the first ground to host an international between two full members of the ICC on United States soil.

* 1953-Ellsworth D. Gage appointed first Mayor on April 30 ; Plantation incorporated as a city ; first City Council meeting on May 11 ; Broward Boulevard grows to a four-lane street ; population reaches 475.

The Department was also the first to arrive and provide assistance to a helicopter which crashed on the property of the Sea Ranch Beach Club, and also has assisted the United States Border Patrol and the Broward Sheriff's Office with detaining and pursuing illegal immigrants that have come ashore into the village, and also provide emergency police back-up to neighboring Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.

Silver Airways Corp., operating as Silver Airways ( SIL ), is a United States airline with its headquarters on the property of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in unincorporated Broward County, Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.

The airline headquarters are located in Suite 201 of the on the property of the 1100 Lee Wagener Boulevard building on the property of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in unincorporated Broward County, Florida, near Fort Lauderdale.

Broward County court records also show that on July 1, 1994, Padilla changed his name to one word: " Ibrahim.

Deutsch was defeated by Castor in the Democratic primary on August 31, winning only three counties ( Miami-Dade, Broward, and Monroe ).

Klassen served Broward County in the Florida House of Representatives from November 1966-March 1967, running on an anti-busing, anti-government platform.

The Dames Point Bridge ( officially the Napoleon Bonaparte Broward Bridge ) is a cable-stayed bridge over the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida on the Interstate 295 East Beltway.

It was with this uncle that Broward first worked on the river, doing odd jobs on his uncle's steamboat during the summer.

In 1876, having graduated high school, Broward became a ship's mate and traveled to New England, where he stayed for two years, taking odd jobs on ships up and down the New England coast.

Broward withdrew from the river for a while and again traveled north, but by 1885 he was back on the St. Johns, piloting his father-in-law's steamboat Kate Spencer.

The county Democratic leadership got together to nominate a new sheriff, and quickly settled on Broward as the best man for the job.

Broward agreed, and in January 1896, The Three Friends shipped out of Jacksonville on her maiden voyage, bound for Cuba.

Other places commonly filmed in the series included scenes around Broward and Palm Beach counties.

Exhausted by the campaign, Broward retired with his family to the beach at Fort George.

Inside the Broward County Elections Office in Florida, experts studied the stamp and decided that the method used to print it and the perforations along the sides were evidence that the stamp was fake.

The amendment failed to get a majority of the vote in any county except for Meek's home county of Miami-Dade along with neighboring Broward and Palm Beach counties.

Broward introduced a bill to the legislature in 1905 directing the state to provide life insurance for its citizens and setting up an Insurance Commission and a cabinet-level post to go along with the program, but the legislature was uninterested and voted the bill down with little debate.

The diocese takes in all of Miami-Dade County, Broward County, Palm Beach County, and Martin County, along with the Florida Keys portion of Monroe County and the eastern part of Hendry County.

St. George was a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Broward County, Florida, United States.

* Dames Point Bridge: Also known as the Napoleon Bonaparte Broward Bridge, this bridge crosses the St. Johns River near Blount Island in Metropolitan Jacksonville, Florida.

U. S. authorities attempted to do just that, but Broward managed to thwart them, by loading The Three Friends under cover of darkness in secluded locations, by hiding her behind larger ships as she left the St. Johns, and by picking up Cubans and munitions from other ships at various points near the mouth of the river.

The court's jurisdiction comprises the nine counties of Broward, Highlands, Indian River, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Okeechobee, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie.

It includes Monroe County ( the Keys ) and the three metropolitan counties of Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach, as well as the three " Treasure Coast " counties of Indian River, St. Lucie, and Martin to the north.

* Florida: Last call set statewide to 2 a. m., some cities have passed exemptions to the law, notably Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Pinellas County ( 3 a. m .), Broward county ( 4 a. m .) and Miami ( 24 hours in the Miami Entertainment District ).

* Napoleon B. Broward ( 1857 – 1910 ), American governor of Florida

The sheriff of Broward County, where the Indian reservation lies, made arrests the minute the bingo hall opened, and the tribe sued the county ( Seminole Tribe v. Butterworth ), stating that Indian tribes have sovereignty rights that are protected by the federal government from interference by state government.

While filming in the Broward County Courthouse used as the set for the Miami Courthouse, director Fosse decided to cast a real-life bailiff in the role of the bailiff who drags Dustin Hoffman ( Lenny ) out of the courtroom.

Brevard County in 1856 extended as far west as Polk County and as far south as coastal Broward County.

The portions of Brevard County in present-day Broward and Palm Beach counties were given to Dade County, western areas of the county were given to Polk and Osceola counties, and parts of Volusia and Orange counties were given to Brevard, including the eventual county seat of Titusville.

Broward County is a county located in the U. S. state of Florida.

Broward County was created in 1915.

It was named for Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, Governor of Florida from 1905 to 1909.

It was originally intended to be named Everglades County, but then-Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Ion Farris amended the bill that established the county to be named after Broward.

In 1915, Palm Beach County and Dade County contributed nearly equal portions of land to create Broward County.

At its inception, Broward County was considered a leader in agriculture products and services within the State of Florida.

Broward boasts some notable attractions.

Broward County has an average elevation of six feet ( 1. 8 m ) above sea level.

Broward County is composed of Oolite limestone while western Broward is composed mostly of Bryozoa.

Broward is among the last areas of Florida to be created and populated with fauna and flora, mostly in the Pleistocene.

Of developable land in Broward County, approximately, the majority is built upon, as the urban area is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Everglades National Park to the west.

Broward approved the construction of Osborne Reef, an artificial reef made of tires off the Fort Lauderdale beach, but it has proven an environmental disaster.

Broward is the only county in the nation outside the Northeast in which Italian-Americans formed the largest ethnic group in 2000.

410, 387 residents of Broward County, or 25. 3 percent of the total population, were foreign-born ( 45 % of whom were naturalized citizens ), of which 60, 241 of these were born in Jamaica, 47, 445 in Haiti, 32, 572 in Cuba, 12, 776 in Peru, 9, 189 in the United Kingdom, and 9, 015 in the Dominican Republic.