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WFXL is the Fox-affiliated television station for Southwestern Georgia that is licensed to Albany. It airs a digital signal on VHF channel 12 (or virtual channel 31.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter, east of Doerun, along the Colquitt and Worth County line. The station transmits network programming in the native 720p high definition format but broadcasts local news and syndicated programming in unconverted standard definition. Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, WFXL has studios on Stuart Avenue in Albany. ==History== The station signed-on February 14, 1982 as WTSG-TV and was Southwestern Georgia’s first Independent station. It was originally founded by black physician Carl Gordon Jr. It became a charter Fox affiliate on October 6, 1986. The station's original studio facilities were located on North Slappey Boulevard/US 82 in Albany. Gordon sold the station to NewSouth Broadcasting in 1987. The station changed its call letters to the current WFXL in 1989. Clarion Broadcasting purchased the station in 1996. Clarion then sold WFXL to the Wicks Broadcast Group in 1998. In March 1999, Waitt Broadcasting bought the station from Wicks. Raycom Media acquired the outlet in December 2003 through its purchase of most of Waitt Media's stations. In March 2006, Raycom announced the sale of WFXL and eleven other stations to Barrington Broadcasting in order to meet Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules regarding station ownership. The company had just acquired The Liberty Corporation, owner of NBC affiliate WALB, which it decided to keep.〔http://www.mysouthwestga.com/about/about.aspx?id=60722〕 On June 1, 2006, a MH-47 Chinook military chopper traveling from Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia to Fort Rucker in Alabama for a training mission hit a guy wire connected to WFXL's tower resulting in a crash. While the tower and WALB's one nearby remained standing other than some guy wires, the stations were forced to temporarily cease over-the-air signals; broadcasts on cable were not affected. If the WFXL tower had collapsed, this could have also caused WALB's to topple as both were only 150 feet (45 m) apart.〔http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=4974569〕〔http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=4982365〕〔http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=4980571〕 As a result, Raycom (which at that time still operated WFXL while the sale to Barrington awaited FCC approval) acquired auxiliary transmitters and antennas for both WFXL and WALB which were installed at a backup tower at WALB's studios in Albany.〔http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=4986005〕 On June 7, the WFXL tower was demolished, but in doing so one of the tower's guy wires wrapped around one for WALB's tower, as feared. As a result, that station's tower collapsed in an incident shown on live television. Since both stations were already transmitting their signals from the tower at the WALB studios they were still on the air but at low-power. Thirteen months later, a new tower for both WFXL and WALB was constructed and began broadcasting on July 3 at 11:35 p.m.〔http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=5002278〕〔http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=5006920〕〔http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfZwJ3w3OL0〕 On February 28, 2013, Barrington Broadcasting announced the sale of its entire group, including WFXL, to the Sinclair Broadcast Group. The sale was completed on November 25.〔http://www.sbgi.net/site_mgr/temp/Barrington%20Closes.pdf〕 The station's second digital subchannel began carrying programming from Sinclair's American Sports Network syndication package starting with its inaugural broadcast on August 30, 2014. Today as a result of recent acquisitions by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, WFXL is sister to company-owned station clusters in Pensacola, FL/Mobile, AL, Gainesville, FL, and Tallahassee, FL. 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「WFXL」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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