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| City | Orange Park, Florida |
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| Branding | WJXX ABC 25; First Coast News |
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| WTLV | |
| History | |
First air date | February 9, 1997 |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 25 (UHF, 1997–2009) |
Call sign meaning | "Jax" (informal abbreviation for Jacksonville) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 11893 |
| ERP | 29.5 kW |
| HAAT | 290.7 m (954 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°16′25″N 81°33′12″W / 30.27361°N 81.55333°W |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
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.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WJXX". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.