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WNFT
WJAX-TV (channel 47) is a television station in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Hoffman Communications, which maintains a joint sales agreement (JSA) with Cox Media Group, owner of Fox/MyNetworkTV/Telemundo affiliate WFOX-TV (channel 30), for the provision of certain services. The two stations share studios on Central Parkway and transmitter facilities on Hogan Road, both in Jacksonville's Southside section. History The station was the brainchild of John Stone Thigpenn who, while working as an announcer at Christian radio station WBIX (1010 AM, now WJXL) during May 1977, read Pat Robertson's "Shout it From the Housetops," Robertson's personal account of how he founded the Christian Broadcasting Network. Thigpenn, who gained faith to create a similar venture in Jacksonville, mentioned on the air that he wanted to start a Christian television station in the Jacksonville market. Within minutes of this announcement, listener Janice Paulk f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFOX-TV
WFOX-TV (channel 30) is a television station in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, affiliated with Fox, MyNetworkTV, and Telemundo. It is owned by Cox Media Group, which provides certain services to CBS affiliate WJAX-TV (channel 47) under a joint sales agreement (JSA) with Hoffman Communications. The two stations share studios on Central Parkway and transmitter facilities on Hogan Road, both in Jacksonville's Southside section. History Early history in 1980s The station first signed on the air on February 15, 1981, as WAWS-TV (the "-TV" suffix was dropped from the call sign on October 8, 1981). Named for Ashley Wellhouse Stein, granddaughter of founding part-owner Martin Stein, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
