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WJXX

Not to be confused with WJXT.

WJXX
All rendered in blue: Next to the ABC network logo, a disk with white letters "abc", the numeral "25". The letters WJXX in a sans serif, also in black and drop shadowed in white and red, appear below the ABC.
The words "FIRST" and "COAST", directly touching, with "FIRST" bolded, in blue. Beneath, the NBC and ABC logos and the word "NEWS" in blue. Beneath these are the words "ON YOUR SIDE".
CityOrange Park, Florida
Channels
BrandingWJXX ABC 25; First Coast News
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WTLV
History
First air date
February 9, 1997 (1997-02-09)
Former channel number(s)
Analog: 25 (UHF, 1997–2009)
Call sign meaning
"Jax" (informal abbreviation for Jacksonville)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID11893
ERP29.5 kW
HAAT290.7 m (954 ft)
Transmitter coordinates30°16′25″N 81°33′12″W / 30.27361°N 81.55333°W / 30.27361; -81.55333
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.firstcoastnews.com

WJXX (channel 25) is a television station licensed to Orange Park, Florida, United States, serving the Jacksonville area as an affiliate of ABC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside NBC affiliate WTLV (channel 12). The two stations share studios on East Adams Street (near EverBank Stadium) in downtown Jacksonville; WJXX's transmitter is located on Anders Boulevard in the city's Killarney Shores section.

Though plans for an Orange Park television station dated to 1977 and the construction permit to 1988, it took upheaval in the city's ABC affiliation to induce the construction of channel 25, which began broadcasting in February 1997. The launch was two months ahead of schedule; final transmission facilities were not built out for another seven months, and signal issues alienated viewers in Jacksonville, a market already comparatively weak for the ABC network. Even though the founding owner, Allbritton Communications, built studios and started a local news team, WJXX made little headway in the ratings. The problems caused by the early launch proved insurmountable, leading Allbritton to sell WJXX to Gannett, owner of WTLV, just as common ownership of two stations in a market was permitted. Gannett merged the two stations at WTLV's studios in 2000 and began to simulcast nearly all local newscasts under the name First Coast News.

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WJXX". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
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