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| City | Fort Pierce, Florida |
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| Branding | CW 34 |
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First air date | April 5, 1966 |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 35575 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 455.7 m (1,495 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 27°7′20″N 80°23′19″W / 27.12222°N 80.38861°W |
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| Website | cw34 |
WTVX (channel 34) is a television station licensed to Fort Pierce, Florida, United States, serving the West Palm Beach area as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside CBS affiliate WPEC (channel 12) and two low-power, Class A stations: MyNetworkTV affiliate WTCN-CD (channel 43) and TBD owned-and-operated station WWHB-CD (channel 48). The stations share studios on Fairfield Drive in Mangonia Park (with a West Palm Beach postal address); WTVX's transmitter is located southwest of Palm City, Florida.
WTVX was established in Fort Pierce in 1966 and was the third—and successful—attempt to sustain a television station in that city. It was the CBS affiliate for areas north of Palm Beach County. In 1980, a new transmitter facility and substantial power increase added the Palm Beaches to its coverage area. A decade later, a network affiliation shuffle in the West Palm Beach market led to WTVX losing its CBS affiliation. After being spurned by ABC, WTVX became an independent station and shut down its news department. The station was sold to Krypton Broadcasting, which soon after struggled through a lengthy bankruptcy case that ended with WTVX being auctioned off. An affiliate of UPN from 1995 to 2006 and The CW since, the station has made several further and short-lived attempts at local news programming.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WTVX". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.