WJXX
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Orange Park/Jacksonville, Florida United States |
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| City | Orange Park, Florida |
| Branding | WJXX ABC 25 (general) First Coast News (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
ABC 25, Start Here (general) First For You (newscasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 10 (VHF) Virtual: 25 () |
| Subchannels | See Below |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner |
Tegna Media (Multimedia Holdings Corporation) |
| First air date | February 9, 1997 |
| Call letters' meaning | JaX (informal abbreviation for Jacksonville) |
| Sister station(s) | WTLV |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 25 (UHF, 1997–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 29.5 kW |
| Height | 290.7 m |
| Facility ID | 11893 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°16′24″N 81°33′13″W / 30.27333°N 81.55361°WCoordinates: 30°16′24″N 81°33′13″W / 30.27333°N 81.55361°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.firstcoastnews.com |
WJXX, virtual channel 25 (VHF digital channel 10), is an ABC-affiliated television station serving Jacksonville, Florida, United States that is licensed to Orange Park. The station is owned by the Tegna Media division of Tegna, Inc., as part of a duopoly with NBC affiliate WTLV (channel 12) (ironically a former ABC affiliate itself from 1980 to 1988). The two stations share studio facilities located on East Adams Street (near EverBank Field) in downtown Jacksonville; WJXX maintains transmitter facilities located on Eve Drive in the city's Kilarney Shores section.
On cable, the station is available on channel 5 on most cable systems in the market, and in high definition on Xfinity channel 431.
The station first signed on the air on February 9, 1997; the station was founded by WPR, L.P. and operated by Allbritton Communications under a local marketing agreement. In 1996, Allbritton had signed another LMA with WB affiliate WBSG-TV (channel 21) in nearby Brunswick, Georgia; in April of that year, ABC signed a ten-year affiliation agreement with Allbritton, which renewed contracts with the group's three existing ABC affiliates – WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. (which had long been one of the network's strongest affiliates), KTUL in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and WHTM in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – and resulted in five of its other television stations switching to the network – among them were NBC affiliate WCIV (now Heroes & Icons affiliate WGWG) in Charleston, South Carolina, and low-power independent station W58CK (now WBMA-LD) in Birmingham, and CBS affiliates WCFT-TV (now Heroes & Icons affiliate WSES) in Tuscaloosa and WJSU-TV (now Heroes & Icons affiliate WGWG) in Anniston (the three of which would form a triple-simulcast to serve as the ABC affiliate for central Alabama).
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