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WFGX, virtual channel 35 (UHF digital channel 50), is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station serving Pensacola, Florida and Mobile, Alabama, United States, that is licensed to Fort Walton Beach. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with ABC affiliate WEAR-TV (channel 3); Sinclair also operates Mobile-based NBC affiliate WPMI-TV (channel 15) and independent station WJTC (channel 44) under a local marketing agreement with owner Deerfield Media. WFGX and WEAR share studios on Mobile Highway/U.S. 90 in unincorporated Escambia County, Florida (with a Pensacola postal address), WFGX's transmitter is located in unincorporated Baldwin County, Alabama east of Rosinton. The station can also be seen in standard definition on Mediacom channel 7, Comcast channel 19, and Cox channel 20, and in high definition on Mediacom digital channel 807, Comcast digital channel 1019, and Cox digital channel 1020. ==History== The station signed on the air on April 7, 1987 as an independent station; it was the second independent station on the Florida side of the market, after Pensacola-based WJTC. In 1995, WFGX's original local owners entered into a local marketing agreement (LMA) with WEAR. This enabled WFGX to become the area's WB affiliate on September 29, 1996. The station's former analog signal on UHF channel 35 was very weak (509,000 watts), resulting in marginal (at best) reception outside Okaloosa County. It was barely viewable even in Pensacola, and could not be seen at all over the air on the Alabama side of the market. Despite the shortfall in coverage, WFGX has long identified as "Pensacola/Fort Walton Beach," which is unusual since the city of license is normally listed first when a station references another city in its legal on-air identification. It had to rely on cable carriage in order to reach the entire market. When the stronger WBPG (channel 55, now WFNA) signed on from Gulf Shores, Alabama on September 2, 2001, it replaced WFGX as the area's WB affiliate. WFGX then became an independent station, airing home shopping programming from Jewelry Television, syndicated shows and infomercials. Sinclair Broadcast Group purchased WFGX outright in 2004. On February 22, 2006, News Corporation announced that it would launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, which would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television.〔(News Corp. Unveils MyNetworkTV ), ''Broadcasting & Cable'', February 22, 2006.〕 Sinclair opted to affiliate several of its stations (including WFGX) with the new programming service, which launched on September 5, 2006. WFGX discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 35, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 50. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 35. At the same time, WFGX increased its digital signal to one million watts (equivalent to five million watts in analog), which was enough to provide a good signal to viewers in Pensacola. However, it was still practically unviewable on the Alabama side of the market. In July 2010, WFGX's digital transmitter was moved from Gulf Breeze, Florida to WEAR's tower east of Rosinton. With the same power output at the new location, it is now able to offer a signal similar to that of the other full-powered stations in the market. Within two months, the station began offering a high definition signal over-the-air for the first time. WFGX began airing sportscasts from the American Sports Network syndication package on August 30, 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WFGX」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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