WFXU
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| WFXU / WTLF | |
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| Live Oak - Tallahassee, Florida / Thomasville - Valdosta, Georgia |
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| City of license | WFXU: Live Oak WTLF: Tallahassee |
| Branding | The CW |
| Slogan | Every Night is Good |
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| Affiliations | The CW (via The CW Plus) |
| Owner | WFXU: New Age Media, LLC WTLF: MPS Media, LLC (operated through LMA by New Age Media) (WFXU: Budd Broadcasting Company, Inc.) (WTLF: MPS Media of Tallahassee License, LLC) |
| First air date | WFXU:: June 15, 1998 WTLF: May 7, 2003 |
| Call letters’ meaning | WTLF: TaLlahassee, Florida |
| Sister station(s) | WTLH |
| Former callsigns | WFXU: WTLS (1998-2005) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: WFXU: 57 (UHF, 1998-2009) |
| Former affiliations | WFXU: FOX (1998-2002, as a satellite of WTLH) both stations: UPN (2002-2005) The WB (via The WB 100+, 2005-2006) |
| Transmitter Power | WFXU: 390.8 kW WTLF: 24 kW WTLH-DT2: 665 kW |
| Height | WFXU: 152 m WTLF: 39 m WTLH-DT2: 597 m |
| Facility ID | WFXU: 22245 WTLF: 82735 WTLH-DT2: 23486 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | WFXU: 29°48′42″N 82°42′34″W / 29.81167°N 82.70944°W WTLF: 30°29′41.4″N 84°25′0″W / 30.494833°N 84.41667°W WTLH-DT2: 30°40′51″N 83°58′21″W / 30.68083°N 83.9725°W |
| Website | none |
WFXU is the CW-affiliated television station for southwest Georgia and the Tallahassee, Florida area that is licensed to Live Oak, Florida. The station broadcasts a digital signal on UHF channel 48 from a transmitter located west of High Springs. Owned by New Age Media, it has studios on Governors Square Boulevard in Tallahassee. The station operates a full-time satellite, WTLF. Licensed to Tallahassee, this station broadcasts a digital signal on UHF channel 24 from a transmitter located between Midway and the Ochlockonee River in Gadsden County, Florida. Although owned by MPS Media, it is operated by New Age Media through a local marketing agreement (LMA). They are sister stations to FOX affiliate WTLH. Although both stations broadcast over-the-air, all of their programming comes from The CW Plus. In addition to airing digital signals of their own, there is a simulcast offered on WTLH's second digital subchannel. This broadcasts on UHF channel 50.2 from a transmitter in Metcalf, Georgia near the Florida state line. There is no website for WFXU / WTLF.
[edit] History
WFXU began broadcasting on June 15, 1998 (with the callsign WTLS) as a full-time satellite of Pegasus Broadcasting-owned WTLH. It aired an analog signal on UHF channel 57 from a transmitter near Jasper, Florida. WTLS acquired an affiliation with UPN in April 2002 and became its own station. WTLF launched on May 7, 2003 as a full-time, digital-only satellite of WTLS. It was one of the first stations in the United States to sign-on as a digital-only station. On April 1, 2005, the two stations switched to The WB via The WB 100+ when UPN moved to a new second digital subchannel of CBS affiliate WCTV.
Prior to this, The WB was carried on a cable-only WB 100+ station known by the fictitious call letters "WBXT" and on-air moniker "WB 6". The call letters currently belong to a low-power Class A station in Tallahassee. On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced that they would end broadcasting and merge. The new combined network would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents, CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner. It was announced on April 24 that WTLH would create a new second digital subchannel to become Tallahassee's CW affiliate. However around August 2006, a graphic with the text "Coming This September" and a CW logo was placed on the bottom right of the screen on WFXU indicating the station as a CW affiliate. When the network premiered on September 18, WFXU became the official affiliate with a simulcast on WTLH-DT2.
Pegasus declared bankruptcy back in June 2004 over a dispute with DirecTV over marketing of the direct broadcast satellite service in rural areas. The Pegasus station group was sold in August 2006 to private investment firm CP Media, LLC of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania for $55.5 million dollars. Eventually, CP Media formed a new media company, New Age Media. It purchased WFXU and WTLH at the end of March 2007. Originally, WFXU's digital transmitter was co-located with the analog one. The station had an application approved by the FCC to relocate it to the current location near Gainesville. The intent is to refocus its viewership on that market leaving WTLF as the sole CW station for Tallahassee.
[edit] External links
- The CW
- The CW Plus
- WTLH "FOX 49"
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WFXU
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WTLF
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