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WXXV-TV is the primary Fox and secondary MyNetworkTV affiliated television station for the Mississippi Gulf Coast that is licensed to Gulfport. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 48 (or virtual channel 25.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Wire Road East, in unincorporated Stone County, northeast of McHenry. Owned by Morris Multimedia, WXXV has studios on U.S. 49 in Lyman (with a Gulfport postal address). Syndicated programming on the station includes ''The Dr. Oz Show'', ''The Big Bang Theory'', ''Family Feud'', and ''The Doctors'' among others. ==History== The station signed on February 14, 1987 as the market's third television outlet (after WLOX and WMAH-TV). It was originally owned by Gulf Coast Television Ltd. Airing an analog signal on UHF channel 25, WXXV was Mississippi's third Independent to launch after WDBD in Jackson and WNTZ-TV in Natchez. Gulf Coast Television sold the station to Am-South Realty, a subsidiary of AmSouth Bank in 1989. It would not join Fox as the area's first affiliate until 1990. Prime Cities Broadcasters bought the station in 1991. Prior to that, cable systems piped in WNOL-TV from New Orleans, Louisiana or WPMI-TV in Mobile, Alabama for Fox programming. WXXV aired the ABC crime drama ''NYPD Blue'' starting in 1994 when local ABC affiliate WLOX refused to air the show. From January 1995 until September 2006, the station also featured some limited UPN programming out-of-pattern through a secondary relation. Prime Cities Broadcasters sold the station to current owner Morris Multimedia in 1997. A new second digital subchannel was launched in September 2006 to be the area's MyNetworkTV affiliate. Now considered a programming service rather than a true over-the-air broadcast network, it is a sister operation to Fox. WXXV's broadcasts became digital-only on February 17, 2009.〔http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20090207/NEWS01/902070322〕 The station continues to broadcast on digital channel 48.〔http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf〕 However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display WXXV's virtual channel as 25. The station was added to DirecTV's local station offering on June 16, 2010. The station also served as the Hattiesburg/Laurel market's longtime default Fox affiliate. WXXV's transmitter tower site and directional antenna pattern are strategically located and designed to enable the station to cover all cities along Mississippi's Gulf Coast and Pine Belt regions. In addition, WXXV could be picked up locally on Comcast in the Pine Belt. On October 13, 2011, low-powered WHPM-LD joined the network as the first ever Fox outlet for Hattiesburg and Laurel. Despite the addition of that outlet to the network, Comcast in Hattiesburg and Laurel continues to offer WXXV's standard and high definition channels on its system. That market still lacks its own MyNetworkTV-affiliated station resulting in WXXV being the Pine Belt's default affiliate (through its main channel's secondary affiliation as of 2015). On June 25, 2012, it was announced WXXV would become the market's first ever locally based NBC affiliate. The MyNetworkTV affiliation was moved to cable-exclusive status so that WXXV-DT2 could become the NBC outlet. Prior to the station adding NBC, both WDSU-TV in New Orleans and WDAM-TV in Laurel, Mississippi served as the Gulf Coast's longtime de facto affiliates on cable. On January 1, 2015, WXXV took over promotional and advertising responsibilities of the market's cable-only CW affiliate "WBGP" from Cable ONE. As a result, the service was added to a new third subchannel of WXXV in order to offer over-the-air viewers access to The CW for the first time. Although "WBGP" was seen on the basic tier Cable ONE, WXXV-DT3 is only available on digital channel 476 which was formerly the location of WXXV's cable-exclusive MyNetworkTV station. At the same time that WXXV-DT3 launched, MyNetworkTV programming moved to a secondary affiliation on WXXV's primary channel and can be seen on weeknights from 10 until midnight.〔http://www.sunherald.com/2014/12/24/5985870/wxxv-to-become-coasts-first-local.html〕 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「WXXV-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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