WJXX
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WJXX is the ABC affiliate serving the Jacksonville, Florida area. It is licensed to the nearby suburb of Orange Park, where its transmitter is located, and is owned by Gannett. It broadcasts on analog channel 25 and digital channel 10.
History
WJXX signed on June 25, 1997 owned by Allbritton Communications Group. It was the first station in the country designed for digital television. It was originally slated to be an independent station, but Allbritton wanted a better way to showcase its new digital facility. It signed an affiliation deal with ABC in which all of Allbritton's stations that did not already have ABC affiliation switched to that network. As a result, WJXX displaced Jacksonville's longtime ABC affiliate, WJKS channel 17, which affliated with The WB, changing its callsign to WJWB.
Allbritton simulcast the signal on Brunswick, Georgia's WBSG channel 21. However, due to economic reasons, it sold WJXX to Gannett, who already owned NBC affiliate WTLV in November 1999. The FCC allowed the deal because WJXX, as the newest station in the market ranked behind WJWB, Fox affiliate WAWS and then-UPN affiliate WTEV (now a CBS affiliate). FCC rules prohibit one person from owning two of the four biggest stations in a market. Gannett merged the two stations' news departments; the merged news operation is known as "First Coast News" based at WTLV's studios.
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| Broadcast television in the Jacksonville market (Nielsen DMA #52) | |
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WJXT 4 (Ind) - WUFT 5 (PBS) - WJCT 7 (PBS) - WXGA 8 (PBS/GPB) - WTLV 12 (NBC) - WJWB 17 (The WB) - WCJB 20 (ABC) - WPXC 21 (i) - WJXX 25 (ABC) - WAWS 30 (Fox/UPN) - WTEV 47 (CBS) - WOGX 51 (FOX) - WPXJ-LP 54 (i) | |
| See also: Broadcast television stations in the Orlando, Gainesville, Tallahassee, Savannah and Albany Markets | |