WBFF-TV
 
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Baltimore, Maryland United States |
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| Branding | Fox 45 (general) Fox 45 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | We Are Fox 45 |
| Channels |
Digital: 46 (UHF) (to move to 26 (UHF)) Virtual: 45 () |
| Subchannels | 45.1 Fox 45.2 WeatherNation TV 45.3 This TV |
| Translators | 43.1 WI9XXT 43 (UHF) Washington, DC 43.1 WI9XXT 43 (UHF) Baltimore |
| Affiliations | Fox (1986–present) |
| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (Chesapeake Television Licensee, LLC) |
| Founded | 1966 |
| First air date | April 11, 1971 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Baltimore's Forty-Five or Baltimore's Finest Features (early slogan) |
| Sister station(s) |
Baltimore: WNUV, WUTB Washington, D.C.: WJLA-TV |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 45 (UHF, 1971–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Analog/DT1: Independent (1971–1986) DT2: Good TV (2006–2008) This TV (2008–2014) DT3: ZUUS Country (2010–2014) |
| Transmitter power | 655 kW 120 kW (WI9XXT in DC) 800 kW (WI9XXT in Baltimore) |
| Height | 372.8 m (1,223 ft) 167.6 m (550 ft) (WI9XXT in DC) 308.5 m (1,012 ft) (WI9XXT in Baltimore) |
| Facility ID | 10758 |
| Transmitter coordinates |
39°20′10.5″N 76°38′58.1″W / 39.336250°N 76.649472°W 38°56′24″N 77°04′53″W / 38.94000°N 77.08139°W (WI9XXT in DC) 39°20′10″N 76°38′58″W / 39.33611°N 76.64944°W (WI9XXT in Baltimore) |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | foxbaltimore |
WBFF, channel 45, is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Baltimore, Maryland, United States. WBFF is the flagship station of the locally based Sinclair Broadcast Group, which also operates MyNetworkTV affiliate WUTB (channel 24) and CW affiliate WNUV (channel 54), through respective local marketing agreements with Deerfield Media and Cunningham Broadcasting. All three share studios, while WBFF and WNUV share transmitter facilities on 41st Street off the Jones Falls Expressway on the landmark "Television Hill"(shared with WJZ-TV and WBAL-TV) in the Woodberry section of north Baltimore.
On cable, the station is carried on channel 15 on most immediate Baltimore area cable systems, and on channel 10 on Verizon FiOS. In most outlying areas of the market, the station is carried on either channel 3, channel 7, or channel 10.
WBFF signed on on April 11, 1971, founded by what was then called the Chesapeake Television Corporation, which was controlled by Julian Sinclair Smith. It was Baltimore's second commercial UHF station and second independent station, signing on four years after WMET-TV (channel 24, frequency now occupied by WUTB) began operations. Both stations aired general entertainment programming, but WMET's owners experienced financial problems and were forced to take channel 24 off the air in 1972.
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