WFGX

WFGX, virtual channel 35 (UHF digital channel 50), is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station serving Pensacola, Florida and Mobile, Alabama, United States, that is licensed to Fort Walton Beach. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with ABC affiliate WEAR-TV (channel 3); Sinclair also operates Mobile-based NBC affiliate WPMI-TV (channel 15) and independent station WJTC (channel 44) under a local marketing agreement with owner Deerfield Media.

WFGX and WEAR share studios on Mobile Highway/U.S. 90 in unincorporated Escambia County, Florida (with a Pensacola postal address), WFGX's transmitter is located in unincorporated Baldwin County, Alabama east of Rosinton. The station can also be seen in standard definition on Mediacom channel 7, Comcast channel 19, and Cox channel 20, and in high definition on Mediacom digital channel 807, Comcast digital channel 1019, and Cox digital channel 1020.

History

The station signed on the air on April 7, 1987 as an independent station; it was the second independent station on the Florida side of the market, after Pensacola-based WJTC.