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| City | Live Oak, Florida |
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| Branding | My WCTV-DT6 |
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| History | |
First air date | June 15, 1998 (27 years ago) (1998-06-15) |
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Call sign meaning | Fox UHF (former affiliation) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 22245 |
| ERP | 13.4kW |
| HAAT | 123.5 m (405 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°33′0.8″N83°0′47″W / 30.550222°N 83.01306°W /30.550222; -83.01306 |
| Translator(s) | W30FA-DHomerville, GA |
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| Website | www |
WFXU (channels 15 and 57), brandedMy WCTV-DT6, is atelevision station licensed toLive Oak, Florida, United States, serving theTallahassee, Florida–Thomasville, Georgiamarket. It is owned byGray Media alongside Thomasville-licensedWCTV (channel 6), a dual affiliate ofCBS andMyNetworkTV. The two stations share studios on Halstead Boulevard in Tallahassee (alongI-10); WFXU's transmitter is located inHamilton County, Florida, betweenJasper andJennings.
Due to its transmitter being located on the eastern fringe of the Tallahassee–Thomasville market, WFXU's signal is unable to reach Tallahassee proper. In order to serve the entire market, two of WFXU's subchannels are relayed on WCTV from that station's transmitter in unincorporatedThomas County, Georgia, southeast ofMetcalf, along the Florida state line.
WFXU began broadcasting June 15, 1998, as a full-timesatellite ofFox affiliateWTLH, intending to improve that station's signal in the eastern part of the market. It broadcast ananalog signal on UHF channel 57 from the transmitter location near Jasper. Originally owned by L.O. Telecast, Inc., WFXU was sold to KB Prime Media in 1999[2] and to WTLH owner Pegasus Communications in 2002 (the sale was approved because despite Tallahassee not having enough stations to support a duopoly underFederal Communications Commission (FCC) rules; Pegasus had helped fund WFXU's construction).[3] That April, WFXU broke off from WTLH and became aUPN affiliate.
WFXU's signal was not nearly strong enough to cover the entire market. To make up for this shortfall in coverage, it launchedWTLF on May 7, 2003, as a full-time satellite. Pegasus declaredbankruptcy in June 2004 over a dispute withDirecTV over marketing of thedirect broadcast satellite service in rural areas.
On April 1, 2005, WFXU and WTLF switched toThe WB, viaThe WB 100+; UPN promptly signed with WCTV, which launched a new subchannel to carry the network.[4] Prior to this, The WB was carried on a cable-only WB 100+ station, "WBXT", which was operated byWTXL-TV (channel 27). On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced that they would merge to formThe CW. It was announced on April 24 that WTLH would create a new second digital subchannel to become Tallahassee's CW affiliate. These plans were modified around August 2006 to make WFXU/WTLF the primary CW affiliate, with a simulcast on WTLH-DT2; this took effect when the network premiered on September 18.
Although most of the Pegasus station group was sold in August 2006 to private investment firm CP Media, LLC ofWilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania,[5] WFXU was instead sold to Budd Broadcasting that November.[6] Since then, the station has operated intermittently as anindependent station, with CW programming being seen only on WTLF and WTLH-DT2. More recently, it resumed operations from October 17 to November 14, 2010, and from November 12 to early December 2011 after being silent since November 2009; this was done in order to avoid forfeiture of the broadcast license.
In June 2008, WFXU applied to relocate its digital transmitter to west ofHigh Springs, nearGainesville, with the intent of refocusing its viewership on that market. The FCC dismissed the application that December.[7] The call letters were changed to WTXI on December 12, 2011, parking the call letters for a co-owned station inMiami; a week later, the station returned to WFXU.[8]
The station had aconstruction permit, which would have enabled the station to broadcast at 1,000kilowatts at 278.9 meters (915 ft)HAAT, from a transmitter site alongUS 441 in northernColumbia County, about 20 miles (32 km) north ofLake City, allowingrimshot coverage into Gainesville,Jacksonville, andWaycross, Georgia. This permit expired sometime in the late 2010s.[citation needed]
Gray Television agreed to purchase WFXU, along with translator WUFX-LD, on June 26, 2017, in a $600,000 deal. The sale made WFXU and WUFX-LD sister stations to WCTV inThomasville, Georgia, andWCJB-TV in Gainesville.[9] The sale was completed on December 27.[10]
As of September 14, 2013, WFXU returned to the air, this time as aSoul of the South affiliate; it then switched toRetro TV as of April 8, 2016. On April 30, 2018, WFXU became affiliated withMyNetworkTV andMeTV.[11]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 15.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | TLMDO | Telemundo (WTFL-LD) |
| 57.1 | MyNet | MyNetworkTV (WCTV) | ||
| 57.2 | 480i | 4:3 | MeTV | MeTV (WCTV) |
| 57.3 | 16:9 | StartTV | Start TV | |
| 57.4 | Catchy | Catchy Comedy | ||
| 57.5 | Defy | Defy |
