WFOX-TV

WFOX-TV, virtual channel 30 (UHF digital channel 32), is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. The station is owned by the Cox Media Group subsidiary of Cox Enterprises; Cox also operates CBS affiliate WJAX-TV (channel 47) under joint sales and shared services agreements with that station's owner, Bayshore Television, LLC.

The two stations share studio facilities located on Central Parkway in Jacksonville's Southside section; WFOX-TV maintains transmitter facilities located on Hogan Road, also in the city's Southside section. On cable, the station is available on Comcast channel 10 and in high definition on digital channel 434.

History

Early history

The station first signed on the air on February 15, 1981 as WAWS-TV (the "-TV" suffix was dropped from the call letters on October 8, 1981); it was the first general-entertainment independent station to sign-on in the Jacksonville market. It signed on more than a year after the market's first non-network station, WXAO-TV (channel 47, later future sister station WJAX). However, WXAO was mostly a religious station. The station's original studios and transmitter facilities were located on Hogan Road on Jacksonville's Southside. Founded by Malrite Communications, the station maintained a general entertainment format consisting of cartoons, movies, sitcoms and drama series.