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WJXT
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| Jacksonville, Florida | |
| Branding | Channel 4 |
| Slogan | The Local Station |
| Channels | Analog: 4 (VHF) Digital: 42 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | independent |
| Owner | Post-Newsweek |
| Founded | September 15, 1949 |
| Call letters meaning | JaXonville (sounds like Jacksonville) Television |
| Former callsigns | WMBR-TV (1949-1958) |
| Former affiliations | CBS (1949-2002) NBC secondary (1949-1957) ABC secondary (1949-1966) DuMont secondary (1949-1955) |
| Transmitter Power | 100 kW (analog) 976 kW (digital) |
| Height | 293 m (analog) 294 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 53116 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| Website | www.news4jax.com/ |
WJXT channel 4 is an independent television station serving Jacksonville, Florida and surrounding communities. Its transmitter is located in Jacksonville.
It signed on September 15, 1949 as WMBR-TV, the second television station in Florida and co-owned with WMBR-AM. Four years later, the Washington Post Company bought the stations. WMBR-AM was sold in 1958 and the television station was renamed WJXT-TV.
WJXT was a CBS affiliate for over 50 years, though it carried secondary affiliations with DuMont through 1955 (when the network shut down), NBC until 1957 (when WFGA, now WTLV, signed on) and ABC until 1966 (when WJKS, now WCWJ, signed on). For much of that time, it was the only CBS station between Savannah and Orlando, and was thus carried on many cable systems between Jacksonville and Orlando.
The station had a virtual monopoly on television in north Florida until 1957, as its only competition came from a UHF station, WJHP-TV, which signed on in 1953 and went dark in 1956 due to lack of viewership.
After negotiations over a new affiliation agreement with CBS fell through, WJXT became an independent station on July 15, 2002. It now airs syndicated programs as well as locally-produced news programs. WJXT was replaced by WTEV as Jacksonville's CBS affiliate. The station used the Eyewitness News name and format for its newscasts for many years, but in 2005, the newscasts were retitled as "Channel 4 News: The Local Station". Even though it is a Post-Newsweek owned station, WJXT does not brand itself "Local4" like most of its sister stations that follow the owners "Local Mandate" standard standardization, but "The Local Station" is a close enough mention under the slogan.
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WJXT 4 (Ind.) - WJCT 7 (PBS) - WXGA 8 (PBS/GPB) - WTLV 12 (NBC) - WJXE 15 (Ind.) - WCWJ 17 (The CW) - WPXC 21 (ION) - WQXT 22 (A1) - WUBF 23 (Rel.) - WJXX 25 (ABC) - WWRJ 27 (Rel.) - WAWS 30 (Fox) (MNTV on DT2) - W54CS 36 (AS) - WBXJ 43 (MTV2) - WTEV 47 (CBS) - WJEB 59 (TBN) Regional cable television channels |
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WUFT 5 (PBS) - WLUF 10 (PBS) - WMYG-LP 11 / WYPN-CA 45 (MNTV) - WCJB 20 (ABC) (The CW on DT2) - WBXG 31 (MTV2) - WGEC 33 (Ind) - WOGX 51 (FOX) - WGFL 53 (CBS) (MNTV via WMYG-LP and WYPN-CA on DT2) - W56EJ 56* (LAT TV) - W69AY 69 (Ind/Rel) |
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Miami - Fort Lauderdale: WPXM 35 (ION, Miami) - WGAY-LP 41 (Ind., Key West) - WHDT-LP 44 (Ind., Miami) - WPPB 63 (Educational, Fort Lauderdale) |
| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, NBC, PBS, Religious, and Spanish stations in Florida |
