WTXF-TV
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States |
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| Branding | Fox 29 (general) Fox 29 News (newscasts) |
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The Power To Lead (primary news) The Newscast You Deserve (secondary news) We Are Fox 29 (general) |
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Digital: 42 (UHF) Virtual: 29 () |
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| Translators | 38 (UHF) Allentown |
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| Owner |
Fox Television Stations (Fox Television Stations, Inc.) |
| First air date | May 16, 1965 |
| Call letters' meaning | See article |
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| Former affiliations | Independent (1965–1986) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 282.3 m (926 ft) |
| Facility ID | 51568 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°2′26″N 75°14′19″W / 40.04056°N 75.23861°WCoordinates: 40°2′26″N 75°14′19″W / 40.04056°N 75.23861°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WTXF-TV, channel 29, is a Fox owned-and-operated television station located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. WTXF's studios are located on Market Street in Center City, and its transmitter is located in the Roxborough section of the city.
The station signed on the air on May 16, 1965 as independent station WIBF-TV, originally owned by brothers William, Irwin, and Benjamin Fox. The Fox brothers had already been operating WIBF-FM (103.9 FM, now WPPZ) for several years. Channel 29's original studio was located in the Fox family's Benson East apartment building on Old York Road in the suburb of Jenkintown, located north of Philadelphia. WIBF-TV was the first commercial UHF station in Philadelphia, and the first of three UHF independents in the Philadelphia market to sign-on during 1965, with WPHL-TV (channel 17) and WKBS-TV (channel 48) both making their debuts in September.
WIBF-TV struggled at first, in part because it signed on only a year after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) required television manufacturers to include UHF tuning capability. In 1969, the Fox family sold the station to Cincinnati-based Taft Broadcasting. Taft already owned ABC-affiliated WNEP-TV (channel 16) in Scranton, whose signal area also included coverage of the Lehigh Valley, which is part of the Philadelphia market; indeed, WNEP has operated a translator there for years. Taft sought a waiver to keep both stations, since the FCC at that time normally did not allow common ownership of two stations with overlapping coverage areas, even if they were in different markets; the FCC granted the waiver. Taft later opted to sell WNEP-TV in late 1973 to NEP Communications, a group composed of the station's executives and employees.
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