WFVX-LP
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| Bangor, Maine | |
| Branding | FOX Bangor FOX Bangor News |
| Channels | Analog: 22 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | FOX (primary) MyNetworkTV (secondary) Jewelry Television (overnight) |
| Owner | Rockfleet Broadcasting (Rockfleet Broadcasting III, LLC) |
| Founded | April 2003 |
| Call letters’ meaning | refers to FOX |
| Sister station(s) | WVII-TV |
| Transmitter Power | 150 kW (analog) 79 kW (WVII-DT2 digital) 15 kW (future digital) |
| Height | 278 m (analog) 229 m (WVII-DT2 digital) 318 m (future digital) |
| Facility ID | 15287 (analog) 3667 (WVII-DT2 digital) |
| Transmitter Coordinates | 44°45′35.0″N 68°34′1.0″W / 44.759722°N 68.566944°W |
| Website | foxbangor.com |
WFVX-LP, channel 22, is the low-powered primary FOX and secondary MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for Bangor, Maine. Its transmitter is located south of East Eddington near the Penobscot and Hancock County line. Owned by Rockfleet Broadcasting, the station is sister to ABC affiliate WVII-TV. The two stations share studios on Target Industrial Circle in Bangor. Syndicated programming on WFVX includes: George Lopez, Entertainment Tonight, Seinfeld, and Malcolm in the Middle. Overnight, it airs Jewelry Television. Due to its low-powered status, WFVX's over-the-air analog signal has very little penetration outside the greater Bangor area. However, it is carried on cable and satellite television as far away as Skowhegan and Bar Harbor. Although WFVX does not currently broadcast a digital signal of its own, it is carried on WVII's second digital subchannel.
[edit] History
WFVX-LP first went on-the-air in April 2003 after a previous attempt to affiliate its former sister station, UPN affiliate WCKD, with FOX failed. The station took all of WCKD's syndicated programming including Entertainment Tonight. WFVX is the first ever FOX affiliate to broadcast from Bangor and the first full-time affiliate north of Portland. On December 6, 2006, it was announced that the station would start airing programs from FOX's new sister network, MyNetworkTV. That network began broadcasting nationally back on September 5. On weeknights, programming from that network is delayed until 11:05. For Saturday prime time, it is broadcasted early Sunday morning at 1. The shared website of WFVX and WVII features a generic MyNetworkTV logo.
Previously, the WFVX calls were once used on what is now WFUP in Vanderbilt, Michigan (a former sister station in Michigan) that is a full-time satellite of FOX affiliate WFQX-TV in Cadillac, Michigan. WFVX's contract with Time Warner Cable to offer FOX (and now MyNetworkTV) programming in high definition was established at the start of September 2007 and will expire in 2011. In addition to being offered over-the-air as WVII-DT2, WFVX-DT can be seen on digital channel 704. For the upcoming switch to digital-only broadcasting, the station has an application to perform a flash-cut and air a digital signal of its own. It will have the call letters WFVX-LD, the "LD" standing for low-powered digital. However, the station is not required by law to make the transition because of its low-powered status.
[edit] Programming
There is little in the way of local programming on WFVX. A morning talk show, So Goes The Nation, was met with little success. The show was hosted by fellow broadcasters Charlie Horne and Alan Silberberg from the WFVX and WVII studios in Bangor. The show was carried by WFVX, WPFO in Portland, and WLOB-AM 1310 from early-2003 until 2004. The program was a three-hour call-in talk show until September 2004 when it was reduced to a single hour before eventually being canceled in November 2004. The station carried Shop at Home overnights until its closure in March 2008.
Current overnight programming mainly consists of infomercials. Sister station WVII produces a weeknight 10 o'clock newscast that is simulcasted on conservative radio station WNZS-AM 1340. Except for the sports report, the news and weather segments are taped earlier in the evening. The WFVX and WVII news team consists of five people as WVII outsources weather forecasts to AccuWeather in State College, Pennsylvania. CBS affiliate WABI-TV, with a more established news operation and two outlying news bureaus, produces a weeknight 10 o'clock news as well. It can be seen on its second digital subchannel that has CW affiliation.
FOX Bangor News at 10
(Weeknights 10 to 10:35)
- Anchor:
- Cindy Michaels
- Weather:
- Jim Kosek
- Sports:
- Brian Sullivan
Additional news personnel from WVII are seen on this station. See that article for a complete listing.
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