Fox television station in Philadelphia
WTXF-TV
(channel 29) is a
television station
in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
, United States, serving as the market's
Fox
network outlet.
Owned and operated
by the
Fox Television Stations
division, the station maintains studios on
Market Street
in
Center City
and a primary transmitter on the
Roxborough
tower farm
, with a secondary transmitter in
Allentown
.
Channel 29 is the longest continuously operated Philadelphia
UHF
station, since May 16, 1965, as WIBF-TV from studios in the suburb of
Jenkintown
. WIBF-TV was owned by the Fox family alongside
WIBF-FM
103.9. It was the first of three new commercial UHF outlets that year, broadcasting as an
independent station
focusing on community and sports programming.
Taft Broadcasting
purchased channel 29 in 1969 and renamed it WTAF-TV. Under Taft, the station slowly emerged as the leading independent station in the Philadelphia market with popular sports coverage, movies, and syndicated programs. The station was the broadcast outlet for the
Philadelphia Flyers
hockey team between 1971 and 1985 and for the
Philadelphia Phillies
baseball team from 1983 to 1992. The latter deal came after Taft Broadcasting purchased 47 percent of the team. In early 1986, WTAF-TV began producing a 10 p.m. local newscast. Later that year, it became affiliated with the new Fox television network.
Ownership of channel 29 shifted to
TVX Broadcast Group
in 1987 as part of its purchase of Taft's five large-market independent stations; the call sign was changed to WTXF-TV the next year. The deal left TVX highly leveraged and ultimately led to the station's sale in two parts between 1989 and 1991 to
Paramount Pictures
. Paramount nearly lost the station's Fox affiliation when Fox tried to buy another Philadelphia station in 1993. That purchase fell through, and Fox ultimately purchased WTXF-TV itself in a deal approved in 1995. Fox expanded the news department, first with a morning show?
Good Day Philadelphia
?and later with additional early evening and other newscasts.
History
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In November 1952, the first construction permit for channel 29 in Philadelphia was received by
WIP radio
, then owned by
Gimbels
department store, as part of a wave of
ultra high frequency
(UHF) station applications and assignments following a four-year-long freeze on permit awards.
[2]
[3]
WIP returned the permit in May 1954, finding that building and operating the proposed station would be economically infeasible.
[4]
[5]
WIBF-TV: Early years
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In August 1962, William Fox, whose family owned
WIBF-FM
(103.9) in
Jenkintown
as well as real estate interests there,
[6]
received a construction permit from the
Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) to build a new television station on channel 29. The new station would focus on local and regional programming, including news, local sports, and educational shows; it was the second commercial UHF station approved for the Philadelphia area after channel 17 (originally WPCA-TV).
[7]
[8]
The construction permit initially specified Jenkintown as the
city of license
, but this was changed to Philadelphia in 1963.
[9]
In 1965, plans for channel 29 became more definite as the station announced several launch dates: first April 15,
[10]
then May 1,
[11]
though the station did not start broadcasting until May 16.
[12]
It had contracted to air feature films and several British children's shows.
[13]
Local programs included the teen show
Discotheque
,
[14]
as well as local talk and conversation with former WCAU host Taylor Grant on the station's late newscast.
[15]
Channel 29 also broadcast network shows that the city's
ABC
affiliate,
WFIL-TV
, opted not to air. Its attempts to pick up a similarly unaired
NBC
show were rejected because the station could not broadcast it in color.
[16]
[17]
The number of operating commercial UHF stations in the Philadelphia area would go from zero to three in 1965. After WIBF-TV,
Kaiser Broadcasting
debuted
WKBS-TV
on September 1,
[18]
and channel 17 returned to the air after three years as
WPHL-TV
on September 17.
[19]
To increase its coverage area, in 1966, WIBF-TV built a new transmitting tower in the Roxborough area, its transmitter having previously been located at the Fox family's Benson East apartments along with the studio.
[9]
[20]
In 1967, WIBF-TV debuted
Market
, a six-hour stock market review program.
[21]
WTAF-TV: The Taft years
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By late 1968, the Foxes disclosed that their broadcasting operations were operating with a deficit of more than $2 million (equivalent to $13.4 million in 2023 dollars).
[22]
This would prove to be a major factor in the decision to sell WIBF-TV to
Cincinnati
-based
Taft Broadcasting
, a transaction which closed in May 1969 for $4.5 million, including assumption of debt (equivalent to $30.1 million in 2023 dollars), at the time the most spent for a UHF facility;
[23]
[24]
[25]
an article in
Variety
declared of the purchase price, "For many it symbolizes the 'arrival' of UHF in the television scheme of things."
[26]
Taft had room for a second UHF station?in addition to
WNEP-TV
(channel 16) in
Scranton
?because it had sold
WKYT-TV
in
Lexington, Kentucky
, the year before.
[27]
However, Taft needed FCC waivers because the company already owned five stations in top-50 markets and because the signals of the two Pennsylvania stations overlapped.
[28]
On October 20, 1969,
[9]
the call letters changed from WIBF-TV?which had represented members of the Fox family?to WTAF-TV, reflecting the new ownership.
[29]
The call sign change was part of a wider plan to improve every aspect of the station's operation, from programming to facilities.
[30]
One early priority was to leave Jenkintown?where the sign on the building still read WIBF
[31]
?for more centrally located and accessible studios. While Taft's idea of moving into
30th Street Station
was made infeasible by the financial problems of owner
Penn Central
,
[32]
the station relocated to its present facilities at 4th and Market streets in December 1972.
[33]
Taft also expanded channel 29's local sports coverage. In 1971, channel 29 began telecasting road games of the
Philadelphia Flyers
of the
NHL
.
[34]
The station also telecast the
Philadelphia 76ers
of the
NBA
,
[35]
Philadelphia Freedoms
of
World TeamTennis
,
[36]
Philadelphia Wings
lacrosse,
[37]
and road games of the
Philadelphia Bell
of the short-lived
World Football League
in 1975 (the Bell had played on WPHL-TV in 1974).
[38]
[39]
On August 29, 1975, the Bell were playing a televised contest against the
Southern California Sun
in Anaheim. The game began late at night because of the time difference, and WTAF-TV viewers never got to see the end of the 58-39 Sun victory, as the station signed off before the game was completed.
[40]
[41]
WTAF-TV continued to lose money in its first years under Taft, but it slowly improved its ratings and financial position over the decade.
[37]
[42]
In the second half of the 1970s, WTAF-TV emerged as Philadelphia's highest-rated independent station after having previously trailed WPHL and WKBS. Flyers coverage and the strength of the station's nightly movies were cited as particular bright spots in the program lineup.
[43]
It was profitable in each year between 1975 and 1978.
[42]
Taft and the Phillies
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In 1981, Taft Broadcasting acquired a 47-percent stake in the
Philadelphia Phillies
baseball team as part of a group headed by team executive
Bill Giles
. The Phillies had been broadcast on WPHL-TV since 1971; that station's owner, the Providence Journal Company, had increased its rights fees for 1979 just so the team could sign free agent
Pete Rose
.
[44]
Immediately, it was announced that Phillies games would move to channel 29 beginning in 1984, after the existing WPHL-TV contract ended, as part of a new nine-year, $30 million deal (equivalent to $85.1 million in 2023 dollars);
[45]
this was brought forward a year to 1983 after Taft negotiated a buyout of channel 17's final year on the contract.
[46]
For Taft, buying a large share of the Phillies and their television rights was as much about programming WTAF-TV as it was a business move: Taft executives pointed out that baseball would provide more hours of content than the entire run of
M*A*S*H
, a popular and long-running series which channel 29 aired in syndication.
[47]
The Philadelphia independent market contracted in 1983 when WKBS-TV went off the air, a victim of corporate infighting amid the dissolution of
Field Communications
. However, most of channel 48's former program inventory was purchased by WPHL-TV.
[48]
[49]
[50]
Two years later, a third independent was added back to the Philadelphia lineup with the sale of channel 57 to
Milton Grant
and its relaunch as
WGBS-TV
. The Flyers moved to channel 57 after 15 seasons on channel 29, citing in part the emphasis the station had placed on promoting and broadcasting the Phillies.
[51]
Fox, TVX, and WTXF
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On October 9, 1986, WTAF-TV became a charter affiliate of the fledgling Fox television network, which initially only offered late-night and weekend prime time programming.
[52]
It had beaten out WPHL-TV for the affiliation.
[53]
The arrival of Fox to channel 29?announced in early August?was overshadowed later that month when Taft announced it was likely to put its five independent stations up for sale to pay down the large debt its 1985 purchase of Gulf Broadcast Group had generated, fend off activist investors such as
Robert Bass
, and concentrate on its portfolio of network affiliates. An appraisal estimated that WTAF-TV alone could sell for $175 million and the five stations together for $690 million (equivalent to $413 million and $1.63 billion in 2023 dollars).
[54]
The stations fetched far less than that when
TVX Broadcast Group
of
Norfolk, Virginia
, paid $240 million (equivalent to $566 million in 2023 dollars) for the package. Taft lost between $45 and $50 million.
[55]
[56]
[57]
Weeks later, Taft exited its stake in the Phillies by selling the 47.5 percent of the club to its other owners for $24.1 million (equivalent to $56.8 million in 2023 dollars).
[58]
TVX officially closed on the deal on April 9, 1987.
[59]
[60]
While TVX applied for new WTXF-TV call letters at that time as a condition of the sale because of the close association of WTAF-TV with Taft,
[59]
[61]
the call sign did not change until June 1, 1988.
[62]
The Taft stations purchase gave TVX five major-market stations, though most were doing poorly, with the chief exception of channel 29.
[63]
It left TVX highly leveraged and highly vulnerable. TVX's bankers,
Salomon Brothers
, provided the financing for the acquisition and in return held more than 60 percent of the company.
[64]
The company was to pay Salomon Brothers $200 million on January 1, 1988, and missed the first payment deadline, having been unable to lure investors to its
junk bonds
even before the
Black Monday
stock market crash.
[65]
While TVX recapitalized by the end of 1988,
[66]
Salomon Brothers reached an agreement in principle in January 1989 for
Paramount Pictures
to acquire options to purchase the investment firm's majority stake.
[67]
This deal was replaced in September with an outright purchase of 79 percent of TVX for $110 million (equivalent to $235 million in 2023 dollars).
[68]
In 1991, Paramount acquired the remainder of TVX, forming the
Paramount Stations Group
.
[69]
The increasing priority and quantity of Fox network programming, as well as pressure from the network as it prepared to expand to seven-night-a-week service,
[70]
led to the end of the station's association with the Phillies. In 1991, the station proposed a joint deal with KYW-TV to air the team's broadcast games beginning in 1993.
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However, the Phillies opted to return to WPHL-TV, which had the ability to broadcast more games than WTXF-TV.
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Becoming a Fox-owned outlet
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Combined Broadcasting, owner of WGBS-TV, put its three stations on the market in 1993. Six months later, Combined announced it had a buyer for WGBS-TV:
Fox Television Stations
, which would purchase channel 57 for $70 million (equivalent to $133 million in 2023 dollars) and make it the new Fox station for Philadelphia, replacing WTXF-TV.
[73]
Paramount strongly criticized Fox's plans to pull its affiliation. It warned, "All affiliates of Fox should take note of the level of loyalty and commitment Fox has exhibited. Apparently Fox's loyalty only recognizes the partnership nature of a network affiliate's relationship when it is convenient to Fox's own economic interest."
[74]
With a switch that would have taken place in April 1994, at the end of channel 29's Fox affiliation agreement, WGBS-TV was also seen as likely to start a local newsroom, providing the first competition to WTXF's 10 p.m. newscast.
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The transaction also fueled existing speculation that Paramount was planning to join with
Chris-Craft Industries
to create a new network;
[73]
when what eventually became the United Paramount Network (
UPN
) was announced that October as a
joint venture
of the two companies, WTXF was named as its Philadelphia affiliate.
[77]
While this occurred, Paramount itself became the subject of rival media companies seeking to purchase it. In September,
Viacom
agreed in principle to merge with Paramount.
[78]
Not long after that,
West Chester
-based home shopping giant
QVC
mounted a competing bid, and the two firms entered into an intense bidding war;
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Viacom ultimately prevailed in the bidding war in February 1994.
[82]
However, Fox's attempts to buy WGBS-TV ran into opposition largely unrelated to the Philadelphia station. The
New York City
chapter of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) filed a formal objection to Fox's planned purchase due to concerns about foreign ownership in Fox's ownership structure.
[83]
As FCC approval did not come before the planned January 30, 1994, completion of the WGBS-TV deal, Combined walked away from the sale a few weeks later after one extension, preserving WTXF's Fox affiliation.
[84]
Even while the deal was still pending, however, other opportunities drew Fox's attention. In January, when Fox was rebuffed in a bid to purchase
Group W
?which included KYW-TV in Philadelphia?
Mediaweek
reported that another station executive found Fox lacking "its customary vigor" in trying to close the WGBS-TV deal.
[85]
When Group W instead entered into a partnership with CBS?resulting in an affiliation switch at KYW-TV and the sale of CBS-owned
WCAU-TV
?a second such opportunity emerged.
[86]
Several months earlier, Fox had entered into a multi-station, multi-year partnership with
New World Communications
.
[87]
New World and NBC emerged as the leading bidders for WCAU, with New World intending to switch WCAU to Fox if it emerged victorious; Fox also joined the bidding for WCAU in case New World's bid failed. However, Paramount/Viacom changed its Philadelphia plans. On August 31, 1994, it announced it would sell WTXF-TV for Fox for more than $200 million (equivalent to $373 million in 2023 dollars);
[88]
that transaction gave the company the cash to then turn around and buy two of Combined's stations?WGBS-TV and
WBFS-TV
in
Miami
?to become UPN stations.
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The FCC approved the deal in August 1995, as well as a waiver for Fox to own WTXF-TV and
WNYW
in New York City simultaneously.
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Fox made major changes. For some time prior to the sale, the station had been looking for newer, larger facilities for its 150 employees.
[91]
In September 1994, the station had settled on a site in
Bryn Mawr
, a suburban move seen as a blow to Center City.
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Fox dropped the channel 29 brand, calling the station "Fox Philadelphia",
[93]
and instead expanded in the Center City building.
[94]
The station renamed itself Fox 29 again in 2003;
Philadelphia Daily News
columnist
Stu Bykofsky
noted that most people had continued to call it by its channel number anyway.
[95]
Fox began a major renovation of the building in 2005, now occupying all four floors including space once utilized by an insurance agency and a bank.
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2023 license renewal objections
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In July 2023, at WTXF-TV's routine eight-year license renewal, the Media and Democracy Project filed a petition against the renewal with the FCC, seeking greater scrutiny of the network and Fox Television Stations. Joined by former Fox executive Preston Padden and using evidence brought to light in the
Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network
case, the petition sought denial of the license renewal over
Fox Corporation
's alleged misdeeds, citing the station's airing of such national news programs as
Fox News Sunday
and linking them to the
January 6 United States Capitol attack
. In the petition, Padden wrote, "...Fox has undermined our democracy and has radicalized a segment of our population by presenting knowingly false narratives about the legitimacy of the 2020 election. In my opinion, this type of reporting was a significant contributing factor to the riots in the Capitol on January 6, 2021."
[97]
A second such petition was then filed by
Bill Kristol
and former
PBS
president and FCC member
Ervin Duggan
.
[98]
Later in August, former FCC commissioner
Alfred C. Sikes
and
Jamie Kellner
, the architect of the Fox network in the 1980s, also filed informal objections to the renewal: Sikes warned that the FCC had let the requirement to operate in the public interest become "perfunctory" and called for the renewal to be "closely scrutinized in public hearings and courtrooms", while Kellner wrote, "If the character requirement for broadcast licensees is to have any meaning, the FCC must designate the application for a hearing to evaluate the Murdochs'/Fox's character qualifications to operate WTXF on the public airwaves."
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In an opposition, Fox criticized the relief sought by the petitioners as "a violation of the
First Amendment
" and emphasized the lack of specific evidence against WTXF-TV itself.
[100]
On August 23, the FCC opened a docket for the case and invited further comment.
[101]
Fox has highlighted letters of support from elected politicians of both parties, including U.S. representatives
Brendan Boyle
and
Brian Fitzpatrick
and three members of the
Philadelphia City Council
.
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News operation
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The Ten O'Clock News
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In late 1985, under Taft Broadcasting, WTAF-TV began to build an in-house news department to prepare a 10 p.m. newscast with a focus on hard news. Roger LaMay was recruited from
KTTV
in Los Angeles to run the newsroom, which was set up in a former film library in the basement of the Center City studios,
[104]
and former KYW-TV sports anchor
Howard Eskin
was signed as channel 29's first marquee news personality.
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One reporter was Dan Mechem, son of Taft Broadcasting chairman Charles Mechem.
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The Ten O'Clock News
debuted on February 17, 1986, as the first prime time newscast in Philadelphia since WKBS-TV discontinued its effort in 1970. The half-hour program was anchored by Lee McCarthy, a former NBC network correspondent.
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That fall, the weeknight-only broadcast expanded to weekends;
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the program's audience doubled in its first year on air.
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The program was extended to an hour in 1990?delayed by the Paramount acquisition of TVX
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?with original reporter Jill Chernekoff returning to the station after a year at
Headline News
to co-anchor the expanded newscast.
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Eskin's contract was not renewed for financial reasons, with his last sportscast coming in June 1990;
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the station let go of McCarthy in January 1994.
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Expansion to mornings and beyond
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After Fox acquired WTXF-TV, it made major investments in the news operation. It expanded and at long last computerized the newsroom. It assembled a new staff of 32 to launch a morning show,
Good Day Philadelphia
, consisting of a 6:30 a.m. newscast and two-hour morning show, on April 1, 1996.
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The program was originally hosted by Tracey Matisak and
Don Tollefson
, former WPVI-TV sports director.
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In addition, WTXF acquired a helicopter for newsgathering purposes.
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The 6:30 a.m. news was retooled into an hour-long program,
Fox Morning News
, in 1997.
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Tollefson left
Good Day
in 1998 to return to sportscasting at the station
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and was replaced by
Dave Price
and then
Mike Jerrick
.
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Even though local morning shows had been ratings engines for Fox elsewhere in the country, this was not initially the case for WTXF. In 1999,
Good Day Philadelphia
was described by Ellen Gray of the
Philadelphia Daily News
as "chronically underperforming" in the ratings.
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Beginning in 2006, WTXF-TV began filling out the rest of its broadcast day with newscasts in key time slots as part of a strategy to increase its local news visibility.
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The first to be introduced were an 11 a.m. newscast in October 2006,
[120]
followed by a 5 p.m. newscast in January 2007.
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On September 7, 2009, channel 29 expanded its morning and evening news programming:
Good Day Philadelphia
was expanded to five hours on that date with the addition of an hour at 9 a.m. and a new half-hour 6 p.m. weeknight newscast.
[122]
The
Good Day Philadelphia
expansion replaced
The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet
; Jerrick, who had co-hosted that program and also worked at
Fox News Channel
after leaving channel 29, returned to WTXF as anchor of the second half of the program.
[123]
In November 2008, after a trial between WCAU and WTXF, Fox Television Stations and NBC Local Media entered into an agreement to test a system that would allow stations owned by Fox and NBC to pool news resources ranging from sharing field video to sharing aerial helicopter footage, in an attempt to reduce costs.
[124]
Eskin returned to WTXF in 2012, serving as the station's evening sports anchor.
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Weekend morning newscasts were added in 2014,
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while an 11 p.m. newscast debuted in 2016.
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In January 2020, the station revamped its 6 p.m. newscast as
The Six
, which adapted elements from
Good Day Philadelphia
and focused on top headlines and feature segments to differentiate it from the other local stations providing news at that hour.
[128]
WTXF overhauled its anchor lineup for its evening newscasts in 2019, with Jason Martinez?last of
KGTV
in
San Diego
?joining Shaina Humphries on the anchor desk.
[129]
Humphries departed in 2022 and joined the startup newsroom at
WWJ-TV
in
Detroit
;
[130]
she was replaced at WTXF by Shiba Russell, who had last worked in
Atlanta
.
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A 2023 study conducted by the Lenfest Institute found that, of the four major TV newsrooms in Philadelphia, WTXF gave the most coverage to crime, devoting 69 percent of its news stories to the topic; this surpassed 50 percent for WPVI, 39 percent for KYW, and 31 percent for WCAU.
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Previously, in 2020, an article in
Philadelphia
magazine spotlighted a conservative turn in senior management in news philosophy; the article, based on interviews with 10 current and former WTXF-TV staffers, described a newsroom that was "toxic", "racially offensive", and "socially intimidating".
[133]
In addition to its own newscasts, on July 8, 2013, WTXF began airing
Chasing New Jersey
, a daily New Jersey-focused
public affairs
program.
Chasing New Jersey
, which was produced by Fairfax Productions (a production company led by WTXF's vice president and general manager) from a studio in
Trenton
and hosted by
Bill Spadea
, was designed to replace the 10 p.m. newscast on sister station
WWOR-TV
. The program was cancelled in July 2020.
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Notable current on-air staff
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Notable former on-air staff
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Technical information
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Subchannels
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The station's signal is
multiplexed
:
Broadcast on behalf of another station
Analog-to-digital conversion
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WTXF-TV began digital broadcasting on October 27, 1998.
[145]
The station shut down its analog signal, over
UHF
channel 29, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States
transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts
under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 42, using
virtual channel
29.
[146]
WTXF-TV relocated its signal from channel 42 to channel 31 on January 17, 2020, as a result of the
2016 United States wireless spectrum auction
.
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MeTV
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TCT
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Atlantic City
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Inspire
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Edison
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- WNYE-TV 25
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Edu.
Ind.
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New York, NY
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Sonlife
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Trenton
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MeTV
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Middletown Twp.
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- WQAV-CD 34
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Asia Vision
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Ind.
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Atlantic City
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- WMGM 40
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Crime
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Wildwood
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Story
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Bridgeport, CT
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- WMCN-TV 44
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LC
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Atlantic City
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- WGTW-TV 48
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TBN
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Millville
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- WRNN-TV 48
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ShopHQ
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New Rochelle, NY
)
- WTBY-TV 54
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TBN
,
Jersey City
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- WLNY-TV 55
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Ind.
,
Riverhead, NY
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- WPSG 57
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Ind.
,
Philadelphia, PA
)
- WMBC-TV 63
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Ind.
,
Newton
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- WFMZ-TV 69
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Ind.
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Allentown
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