WJXT

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WJXT
Jacksonville, Florida
Branding	Channel 4
Slogan	The Local Station
Channels	Analog: 4 (VHF) Digital: 42 (UHF)
Affiliations	independent LATV (DT3)
Owner	Post-Newsweek Stations, Inc. (Post-Newsweek Stations, Florida, Inc.)
First air date	September 15, 1949
Call letters’ meaning	JaXonville (sounds like Jacksonville) Television
Former callsigns	WMBR-TV (1949-1958)
Former affiliations	Primary: CBS (1949-2002) Secondary: NBC (1949-1957) ABC (1949-1966) DuMont (1949-1955)
Transmitter Power	100 kW (analog) 976 kW (digital)
Height	293 m (analog) 294 m (digital)
Facility ID	53116
Transmitter Coordinates	30°16′24.8″N, 81°33′12.9″W
Website	www.news4jax.com

WJXT channel 4 is an independent television station serving Jacksonville, Florida and surrounding communities. Its transmitter is located in Jacksonville.

[edit] History

It signed on September 15, 1949 as WMBR-TV, the second television station in Florida and co-owned with WMBR-AM. Four years later, the Washington Post Company bought the stations. WMBR-AM was sold in 1958 and the television station was renamed WJXT-TV.

WJXT was a CBS affiliate for over 50 years, though it carried secondary affiliations with DuMont through 1955 (when the network shut down), NBC until 1957 (when WFGA, now WTLV, signed on) and ABC until 1966 (when WJKS, now WCWJ, signed on). For much of that time, it was the only CBS station between Savannah and Orlando, and was thus carried on many cable systems between Jacksonville and Orlando.

The station had a virtual monopoly on television in north Florida until 1957, as its only competition came from a UHF station, WJHP-TV, which signed on in 1953 and went dark in 1956 due to lack of viewership.

WJXT logo from 2002

After negotiations over a new affiliation agreement with CBS fell through, WJXT became an independent station on July 15, 2002. It now airs syndicated programs as well as locally-produced news programs. WJXT was replaced by WTEV as Jacksonville's CBS affiliate. The station used the Eyewitness News name and format for its newscasts for many years, but in 2005, the newscasts were retitled as "Channel 4 News: The Local Station". Even though it is a Post-Newsweek owned station, WJXT does not brand itself "Local4" like most of its sister stations that follow the owners "Local Mandate" standard standardization, but "The Local Station" is a close enough mention under the slogan.

[edit] News Team

[edit] News Anchors

• Mary Baer - 5, 6, & 10 Anchor
• Casey Black - Morning Show & Noon Anchor
• Bruce Hamilton - Morning Show
• Adam Landau - Weekend Anchor
  • Also Reporter
• Melanie Lawson - Noon & 7 Anchor
• Staci Spanos - Morning Show
• Rob Sweeting - 5:30, 6:30, & 11
• Jennifer Waugh - 5:30, 6:30, & 11
• Tom Wills - 5, 6, & 10 Anchor

[edit] Weather Team

• George Winterling - Chief/Weeknights
• John Gaughan - Senior Meterologist/Fill-In Meteorlogist
• Richard Nunn - Morning Show, & Noon
• Rebecca Barry - Morning & Evening WeekEnd

[edit] Sports Team

• John Dunlap - WeekEnd Sports Anchor/Sports Reporter
• Sam Kouvaris - Sports Director/Weeknights
• Sean Woodland - Sports Reporter

[edit] Reporters

• Jennifer Bauer - General Assignment Reporter
• Diane Cho - General Assignment Reporter
• Steve Douglas - Morning Show Reporter
• Scott Johnson - General Assignment Reporter
• Adam Landau - General Assignment Reporter
• Laura Mazzeo - General Assignment Reporter
• Dan Leveton - General Assignment Reporter
• Vickie Pierre - General Assignment Reporter
• Jim Piggott - Investigative Reporter
• Nikki Preede - Morning Show Reporter
• Ashley Townsend - Morning Show Traffic Reporter

[edit] News/Station Presentation

[edit] Newscast Titles

• WMBR-TV Telenews (1949-1958)
• NewsNight (1958-1963)
• The Six O'Clock News/The Eleven O'Clock News (1963-1967)
• Eyewitness News (1967-2005)
• Channel 4 News (2005-present)

[edit] Station Slogans

• Channel 4, Your Eyewitness News Station In Color (1967-1970)
• We're the Eyewitnesses! (Late 1970s)
• We'll Take You There (Mid 1980s)
• Your Good Friends (Late 1980s)
• First in News Around the Clock (Late 1980s - Early 1990s)
• The One and Only Channel 4 (1991-2002)
• The Local Station (2004-present)

[edit] Newscast Music

• We Take You There, Gari Communications (1983-1992)
• WJXT News Theme, Gari Communications (1995-1997)
• Image News With WJXT Signature, Gari Communications (1997-2002)
• The One And Only With WJXT Signature, Gari Communications (2002-Present)

[edit] External links

• WJXT
• WJXT 4 Wireless
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WJXT
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WJXT-TV
• The WJXT building from Wikimapia