Talk:WFOX-TV

Physical RF channel

"32.1" and "32.2" don't exsist. The .1 and .2 are program identifiers part of the virtual channel table only. The actual physical RF is one 6 MHz stream which has everything included in it. While some older boxes may show 32.1 and 32.2, that is a problem with the box and not how it operates in the real world. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Necrat (talk • contribs) 07:45, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:26, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

GA review

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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This review is transcluded from Talk:WFOX-TV/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 17:24, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: Bgsu98 (talk · contribs) 18:46, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

I enjoyed reviewing one of your other TV station articles; very well-written and engaging! Having finished your other article, I will do this one today. Thank you for your patience! Bgsu98 (Talk) 14:44, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

1. Is it well written?

   A. The prose is clear, concise and understandable to an appropriately broad audience, and the spelling and grammar are correct:

   B. It complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation:

2. Is it verifiable with no original research, as shown by a source spot-check?

   A. It contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline:

   B. Reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose):

   C. It contains no original research:

   D. It contains no copyright violations nor plagiarism:

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   B. It stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style):

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   It represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each:

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   It does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute:

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   B. Images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:

7. Overall:

   Pass or Fail:

Comments (6/10/26)

Lead

• "but continued to operate the station under agreement." --> What does that mean "under agreement"?

History

• "In 1996, WJKS was announced..." --> Avoid using the passive voice.
• "divest itself of one of WAWS or WTEV" --> That should be "either WAWS or WTEV"
• "now they were both among the four highest-rated TV stations in the Jacksonville market and could not be sold to the same buyer." --> Slightly rephrase, "now that they were both among the four highest-rated TV stations in the Jacksonville market, they could not be sold to the same buyer."

User:Sammi Brie: Very few comments here. I will do the source review, and hopefully we can get this finished today. Thank you for your patience! Bgsu98 (Talk) 13:22, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

@Bgsu98 All changes done. Looks like the copy-paste error in the 1995 clipping was also in the WJAX-TV article, so I fixed it there: the first page of the clipping is https://www.genealogybank.com/newspaper-clippings/wnft-changes-hands-clear-channel-manage-station/vsfktuwprkbobvhdrkkuhksbuhmjvzwj_ip-10-166-46-167_1758513010139 . The other link was fixed by using Newspapers.com instead of the Times-Union site which appears to not be hosting older articles (or if they are, the links are broken by some CMS migration). When I originally did this article, the Jacksonville papers were not in Newspapers.com. I used GenealogyBank for clippings and then NewsBank's full-text database (which had the papers before 2024, when GBank added them) for easier searching of the post-1996 period. Newer clippings and those added by Bray0829 are in Newspapers.com. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 16:31, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

I have also had to link to two clippings in one citation before, so I knew what the problem was immediately. I have never used any other newspaper clipping service for domestic newspapers other than Newspapers.com. I'll have to look into this other one, but most of what I need at this point are international newspapers.

If you ever decide to bring to GA any of the Columbus, OH TV stations (WCMH-TV, WSYX (aka WSUX), WBNS-TV, or WTTE, let me know! Bgsu98 (Talk) 16:37, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Source review

This table lists 8 random passages from throughout the article (10.3% of 78 total passages). These passages contain 9 inline citations (11.0% of 82 in the article). Generated with the Veracity user script. Bgsu98 (Talk) 14:44, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Reference #	Letter	Source	Archive	Status	Notes
History
After a split between Crown and Springfield,
6		genealogybank.com
In 1986, WAWS joined the new Fox network at its launch.
17		newspapers.com
Clear Channel expanded its Jacksonville operations in 1995, when WNFT—by that time a UPN affiliate—was acquired by RDS Broadcasting. RDS signed a local marketing agreement for Clear Channel to manage most station operations with its own staff, with RDS employing a general manager and chief engineer. The WNFT programming lineup was changed to prevent it from competing with WAWS's higher-rated selections of children's programs and situation comedies.
20		genealogybank.com			I think there is a formatting issue here. The article is split between two pages, but both links go to the B7 article. There is no link to B4, which I suspect is where most of the information is found.
and moved operations there in August 1997. The next month, the WAWS news department was extended to WTEV with the launch of UPN47 News at 6:30; at the same time, the 11 p.m. newscast was dropped to create an hour-long 10 p.m. newscast instead.
30		newspapers.com
The conversion to CBS brought with it an expansion of the news department. The morning newscast moved entirely to WTEV, while new newscasts were added for WTEV at 5:30, 6, and 11 p.m. on weeknights as well as weekend evenings. At the outset, newscasts on WTEV had a separate anchor team but shared reporters, weather, and sports with WAWS;
38		jacksonville.com			Dead link. Please try finding an archive copy.
In March 2012, Providence Equity Partners announced it was seeking a buyer for the Newport Television stations. Four months later, it announced the sale of most of the stations, with Cox Media Group acquiring WAWS and WTEV as well as Newport's stations in Tulsa.
52		tvnewscheck.com
Notable on-air staff
–2014
55	b	jaxdailyrecord.com
Technical information and subchannels
as a result of the 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction.
73		data.fcc.gov	web.archive.org
74		tvtechnology.com

User:Sammi Brie: There are two source issues, both of which are just technical. Please let me know when you've had a chance to fix them. Bgsu98 (Talk) 13:37, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

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