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| City | Pittsburg, Kansas |
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| Operator | Morgan Murphy Media viaJSA/SSA |
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| History | |
| Founded | September 20, 1996 |
First air date | October 18, 2003 (22 years ago) (2003-10-18) |
Former channel numbers | Analog: 14 (UHF, 2003–2009) |
Call sign meaning | "Kansas" and mix of "Fox" and "Joplin" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 83992 |
| ERP | 45.1kW |
| HAAT | 337 m (1,106 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°13′15″N94°42′26″W / 37.22083°N 94.70722°W /37.22083; -94.70722 |
| Translator(s) | KOAM-TV 7.2 Pittsburg, KS |
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| Website | www |
KFJX (channel 14) is atelevision station licensed toPittsburg, Kansas, United States, serving theJoplin, Missouri–Pittsburg, Kansasmarket as an affiliate ofFox andThe CW Plus. It is owned bySagamoreHill Broadcasting, which maintainsjoint sales andshared services agreements (JSA/SSA) withMorgan Murphy Media, owner ofCBS affiliateKOAM-TV (channel 7, also licensed to Pittsburg), for the provision of certain services. The two stations share studios and transmitter facilities onUS 69 south of Pittsburg, with a secondary studio andnews bureau on South Range Line Road in Joplin.
Although KFJX broadcasts a digital signal of its own, its primary channel issimulcast inhigh definition on KOAM-TV's seconddigital subchannel from the same transmitter site because the KFJX signal is weaker (45.1kW vs. 98.8 kW for KOAM-TV).
The station signed on the air on October 18, 2003; the station was launched primarily to bring a Fox affiliate to the area, since the closest Fox affiliates were located inKansas City (WDAF-TV),Springfield (KDEB, nowMyNetworkTV affiliateKOZL-TV) andTulsa (KOKI-TV), as well as the cable serviceFoxnet (which was closed in 2006), all of which were carried on most cable providers within the Joplin area. KFJX may have also been launched in response to theNexstar Broadcasting GroupKODE-TV/KSNF duopoly, which began in 2002 when KODE-TV was acquired by Mission Broadcasting through its acquisition of Quorum Broadcasting.
Because it was granted an originalconstruction permit after theFCC finalized theDTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997,[2] the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station and would have originally had to make a "flash cut" turning off its analog transmitter and turning on its digital transmitter. Instead, on February 17, 2009, KFJX began broadcasting a digital signal on channel 13, which was the former digital assignment of KOAM, after receiving FCC permission to do so. KFJX continued to broadcast its analog signal on channel 14 before signing it off permanently on May 8, 2009, when a line of severe thunderstorms damaged the broadcast tower, forcing the removal of the antenna.
In June 2010, theDirecTV satellite system added Joplin locals to their channel lineup. Initially, KFJX and sister station KOAM were unable to come to an agreement with DirecTV to have the stations carried. In February 2012, KOAM and KFJX began airing on DirecTV.
KFJX is the only Joplin–Pittsburg commercial television station that never has changed its affiliation, having been a Fox affiliate since signing on.
On August 3, 2018, a720pHD feed (branded as "The 4-States CW") ofThe CW's nationalCW Plus service was added to subchannel 14.2, succeeding cable-only "KSXF" (which was one of the many cable-only CW Plus and originalWB 100+ affiliates with fictional call signs) as the CW Plus affiliate for the Joplin–Pittsburgtelevision market.
In2024, KFJX parent company Morgan Murphy Media reached an agreement to broadcast eightOklahoma City Thunder games. Games aired on KFJX or sister stations KOAM-TV and KFJX-DT3.[3]
The station airs a nightly 9 p.m. newscast, produced by KOAM, that debuted on April 5, 2004, and expanded to include a weekend edition in the fall of 2005. On June 1, 2010, the weekday edition ofFox 14 News at Nine expanded to an hour. In the spring of 2012, KFJX began airing a rebroadcast of theKOAM Morning News starting at 7 a.m. It was briefly discontinued, but was brought back on January 28, 2019, under the new brandKOAM Morning News on Fox 14.[4] On April 1, 2019, the 9 p.m. newscast was rebranded asKOAM News at Nine on Fox 14.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 14.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KFJX-HD | Fox |
| 14.2 | KFJX-CW | The CW Plus[6] | ||
| 14.3 | 480i | Start | Start TV | |
| 14.4 | Dabl | Dabl |
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