History
The station signed-on in November 1984 as the market's second Independent television outlet after Opelika, Alabama's WSWS-TV. Three years later in 1987, it became a Fox affiliate and has remained with the network ever since. The station is the network's longest serving Georgia affiliate after Fox dropped WATL for New World-owned WAGA-TV in Atlanta. By 1993, WXTX grew to a seven night network affiliate after Fox expanded its programming offerings. The station was named a top ten affiliate with the network in November 1994 for its prime time audience share. It has subsequently been named to the "Fox Number One Club" several times, most recently in 2007, in recognition of the station's sweeps ratings.
On September 5, 2006, it became the area's secondary MyNetworkTV affiliate after The CW chose then-UPN station WLGA to become its affiliate in Columbus. The CW is currently seen on a second digital subchannel of NBC affiliate WLTZ. Originally, WXTX aired programming from MyNetworkTV on weeknights from 11 until 1 in the morning. For Saturday night prime time, that network was shown early Sunday mornings from 12:30 until 2:30. It eventually shifted to the Tuesday through Saturday time slot of midnight until 2 a.m. after the network transitioned to a programming service. As of 2012, WXTX no longer carries MyNetworkTV as a secondary affiliate. There is currently no affiliate of the network in Columbus.
At one point, the station offered The Tube (a 24-hour automated music video network) on a second digital subchannel. This was dropped on October 1, 2007 when the service shut down due to a lack of advertising revenue. WXTX-DT2 now carries This TV (a 24-hour movie channel) which began airing in late-December 2008. After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion took place on June 12, 2009, WXTX remained on its current pre-transition channel number located at 49. Digital television receivers display its virtual channel as 54.1 through the use of PSIP.
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