TVX Broadcast Group
| Public | |
| Industry | Broadcast television |
| Fate | Acquired by Paramount Pictures in 1991 and became Paramount Stations Group |
| Founded | 1979 as Television Corporation |
| Defunct | 1991 |
| Headquarters | Norfolk, Virginia |
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Area served
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 United States
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Key people
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Timothy McDonald, chairman |
| Products | Broadcast television |
The TVX Broadcast Group was an American media company that owned a group of UHF television stations during the 1980s. Originally known as the Television Corporation, the company was headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, and was founded by a group of Norfolk-area businessmen led by Timothy McDonald. TVX began with a start-up television station, WTVZ, in 1979. Despite the group's name, it never held any interest in WTVX in West Palm Beach, Florida.
In the late 1970s, the Hampton Roads area (as the region around Norfolk is known) was unique in that it was one of the smallest markets to have four commercial television stations: NBC affiliate WAVY-TV, CBS station WTAR-TV, ABC affiliate WVEC-TV, and independent station WYAH-TV. The latter station, however, was owned by the Virginia Beach-based evangelist Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network, and ran a fairly conservative program schedule. The McDonald group secured a construction permit for Norfolk's vacant channel 33 in 1977, and signed it on two years later. WTVZ experienced early success, mostly through airing a moderate amount of programming that had been considered too objectionable for WYAH.
Based on the early success of WTVZ, TVX decided to expand outside of Hampton Roads. TVX's second station was WRLH-TV in Richmond, in February 1982. Ironically, CBN was going to build a station in the same area but donated it to a non-commercial religious group. As a result, WRLH was the only independent station in Richmond for its first few years of operation.
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