WFVX-LP

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WFVX-LP
Bangor, Maine
Branding	FOX Bangor
Slogan	Your Bangor News
Channels	22 (UHF) analog, WVII-DT 14.2 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	FOX (primary) MyNetworkTV (secondary)
Owner	Rockfleet Broadcasting
Founded	April 2003
Call letters meaning	based on "FOX"
Former affiliations	none

WFVX-LP "FOX Bangor" is a low-powered television station located in Bangor, Maine. The station has primary FOX and secondary MyNetworkTV affiliation. It broadcasts an analog signal on UHF channel 22 from a transmitter, located in East Eddington, shared with sister station WVII, the area's ABC affiliate. The analog signal has little penetration outside the greater Bangor area but the station is carried on cable as far away as Skowhegan and Bar Harbor. Although WFVX does not broadcast a digital signal of its own, it is carried on WVII's DT2 digital subchannel. The digital signal broadcasts in Standard Definition only. WFVX and WVII are owned by Rockfleet Broadcasting and master control of WFVX is located at WVII's studios. WFVX shares a website with WVII.

Contents 1 History 2 Programming 3 News Team 4 External Links

[edit] History

WFVX-LP first went on the air on in April of 2003 after a previous attempt to affiliate its former sister station, UPN affiliate WCKD, with FOX failed. WFVX took all of WCKD's syndicated programming, including Entertainment Tonight. WFVX is the first FOX affiliate ever to broadcast from Bangor and the first full-time affiliate north of Portland. WAGM, the CBS affiliate in Presque Isle briefly aired FOX's NFL coverage in the mid-1990s. Now as of September of 2006, the station is airing all FOX programming on its DT1 digital subchannel. Previously, FOX programming was available in Presque Isle only by cable, from WPXT in Portland (which itself is no longer a FOX affiliate) and then from FOX's national network FOXNET.

Previously, the WFVX calls were used on what is now WFUP in Vanderbilt, Michigan, a Rockfleet owned station that simulcasts WFQX from Cadillac, Michigan.

On December 6, 2006, it was announced on the shared website of WFVX and WVII that WFVX would start to air programming from FOX's new sister network, MyNetworkTV. That network began broadcasting in the U.S. on September 5, 2006. Programming from MyNetworkTV airs weekdays at 11:05 PM. On Saturdays, it airs at 1 AM. The shared website of WVII and WFVX features a generic MyNetworkTV logo. There is no separate website for WFVX's secondary affiliation. Until WFVX picked up programming from the network, WPME in Portland was the only MyNetworkTV affiliate in the state of Maine.

It was possible when WAGM was in the process of creating a FOX affiliate on its DT1 digital subchannel, that it would also be a secondary MyNetworkTV affiliate. A preliminary schedule released by Time Warner Cable for the new channel indicated that WAGM DT1 would also carry the two-hour MyNetworkTV programming block. However, the channel's current listings indicate that this is not the case.

[edit] Programming

There is little in the way of local programming on WFVX, except for a WVII-produced newscast which airs at 10 PM dirning the week and is known as Your Bangor News at 10 . WABI, with a more established news operation, airs a weekday 10 PM newscast on its DT2 channel and cable-only "WBAN" that has CW affiliation. In mid-October of 2006, WVII announced that the 10 PM newscast would be recorded in advance, with only the sports segment live.

A morning talk show, So Goes The Nation, met with little success. SGTN was hosted by fellow broadcasters Charlie Horne and Alan Silberberg from WFVX's studios in Bangor. The show was carried by WFVX as well as Portland's WPFO, and simulcasted via WLOB Radio from early 2003 until 2004. SGTN was a three-hour call-in talk show until September of 2004, when it was reduced to a single hour before eventually being cancelled itself in November of 2004.

Newscast

• Your Bangor News at 10 (10 to 10:35 PM)

[edit] News Team

• Cindy Michaels - Anchor / Reporter
• Heather Wilson - Anchor / Reporter
• Chris White - Producer / Reporter / Anchor
• Evans Boston - Sports Director
• Tony Consiglio - Sports Reporter
• Carol Higgins - Announcer

AccuWeather Meteorologists

• Jim Kosek
• Bernie Rayno

[edit] External Links

• WFVX Website (shared with WVII)
• FOX Website
• MyNetworkTV Website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WFVX-LP