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WFLX ("Fox 29") is the Fox-affiliated television station for the Gold and Treasure Coasts of South Florida. Licensed to West Palm Beach, the station broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 28 (virtual channel 29) from a transmitter in Lake Worth west of US 441/SR 7. The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 11 and in high definition on digital channel 434. The station's broadcast license is owned by Raycom Media, but is operated by the E. W. Scripps Company through a shared services agreement with Scripps-owned NBC affiliate WPTV-TV, which was announced in March 2011. All of WFLX's physical assets, programming, and intellectual property is owned by Scripps. WFLX currently shares studios with WPTV on South Australian Avenue in Downtown West Palm Beach. ==History== WFLX was to begin operations in August 1982 but delays pushed the sign on date back to October 17, 1982 as an independent station. Originally owned by Malrite Communications, it ran a programming lineup typical of independent stations at the time—early-morning cartoons, older sitcoms later in mornings, movies in early-afternoons/primetime, classic sitcoms in the late-afternoon, and current sitcoms during early/late-evenings. WFLX originally operated from studios located on West Blue Heron Boulevard/SR 708 in Riviera Beach. Unlike most independents, the amount of children's programming seen on WFLX during this time was low compared to similar stations in other markets, a trend owing to the older demographics of the West Palm Beach area. On October 9, 1986, WFLX became one of the charter affiliates of Fox. At the time, it was the ''de facto'' affiliate of the network in all of South Florida, since WCIX had a signal unable to reach most Broward and Northern Miami-Dade County viewers. WFLX retained this Fox affiliation through a heavy South Florida affiliation swap in January 1989, but it lost most of its Miami/Ft. Lauderdale market share to WSVN, which became a Fox affiliate through the swap. As the 1990s approached, WFLX picked up Fox Kids programming in afternoons and phased out older sitcoms for talk and reality shows. After the 1993/1994 season, it was recognized as the "Fox Affiliate of the Year". In September 1998, Malrite merged with current owner Raycom Media. Shortly after the merge, ratings came out affirming that WFLX was one of Fox's highest affiliates in terms of network ratings and has even showed numbers in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale market. In April 2002, WFLX was the first station in the West Palm Beach market to broadcast in high definition showing Fox programming in the updated format. Raycom merged with The Liberty Corporation in mid-2006. In March 2011, Raycom announced that WFLX would be operated through a shared services agreement with WPTV-TV, the NBC affiliate for the Treasure Coast that is owned and operated by E. W. Scripps Company. In addition to news content, which WPTV has produced for WFLX since the beginning of 2011 (see "News operation" below), WPTV will handle technical, promotional, and online operations for WFLX, along with possible production of local content outside of news. The stations will have separate sales departments; WFLX's sales team (which will remain separate from WPTV) will lease space at WPTV's studios on South Australian Avenue in Downtown West Palm Beach.〔("WPTV In Expanded SSA Deal With WFLX," ) from tvnewscheck.com, November 3, 2011〕 It was later announced that WFLX would vacate their existing studio in Riviera Beach at the end of May.〔("WFLX Sells Studios; Lays Off Almost All Employees" ), SFLTV.com, November 5, 2011〕 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「WFLX」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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