History
WLAX signed-on November 10, 1986 with an analog signal on UHF channel 25. It started as an independent station, but joined Fox soon afterward. However, since the station's transmitter was located in Minnesota, it provided an inadequate over-the-air signal to the northern part of the market (the same problem that long plagued WXOW-TV).
In order to close this coverage gap, full-time satellite WEUX was launched on February 8, 1993 with an analog signal on UHF channel 48. The two stations then adopted the "Fox 25/48" branding. WLAX/WEUX were acquired by current owner Grant Broadcasting on May 15, 1996. On April 29, 2004, WLAX became available on DISH Network's Locals-Into-Locals package. DirecTV would follow suit and do the same on May 24, 2005.
On December 9, 2004, WLAX-DT signed-on with a standard definition digital signal on UHF channel 17. WEUX-DT followed on February 1, 2006 with a digital signal on UHF channel 49 in standard definition. WLAX-DT added high definition capabilities on January 28, 2008 while also launching the second digital subchannel by offering the same programming in standard definition. As part of the DTV transition on February 17, 2009, both outlets discontinued analog transmissions. WEUX would not upgrade its digital signal to high definition until September 10, 2009 and just as WLAX did, added the second subchannel to allow continued standard definition service reception.
On March 25, 2011, WLAX-DT2 started a standard definition simulcast of NBC affiliate WEAU-TV. The big three outlet was added to WLAX's second digital subchannel after WEAU-TV's broadcast tower in Fairchild collapsed during a winter storm on March 22, 2011. Although WEAU-TV was able to resume its own over-the-air transmissions on July 22, 2011, the simulcasting on WLAX-DT2 and WQOW-DT3 would continue until WEAU-TV finished its new tower and signed on its new UHF transmitter, which occurred on January 5, 2012. On January 12, at approximately 1:30 PM, WEAU-TV pulled its programming from 18.3 and 25.2. At that time, WLAX and WEUX launched Me-TV on its second digital subchannel; the service replaced WEAU on WLAX and a standard definition simulcast of the stations' main feed on WEUX (WLAX had provided a similar simulcast before March 2011).
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