WFVX-LP
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| Bangor, Maine | |
| Branding | Fox 22 |
| Slogan | Your Bangor News |
| Channels | Analog: 22 (UHF) Digital: WVII-DT 14.2 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | Fox (primary) MyNetworkTV (secondary) |
| Owner | Rockfleet Broadcasting |
| Founded | April of 2003 |
| Call letters’ meaning | refers to Fox |
| Sister station(s) | WVII-TV |
| Former affiliations | none |
| Transmitter Power | 150 kW (analog) 79 kW (digital, via WVII-DT2) |
| Height | 278 m (analog) 229 m (digital, via WVII-DT2) |
| Facility ID | 15287 |
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| Website | foxbangor.com |
WFVX-LP, channel 22, is the low-powered primary Fox and secondary MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for Bangor, Maine. Its transmitter is located south of East Eddington near the Penobscot and Hancock County line. Owned by Rockfleet Broadcasting, the station is sister to ABC affiliate WVII-TV. The two stations share studios on Target Industrial Circle in Bangor.
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[edit] Overview
Due to its low-powered status, WFVX's analog signal has very little over-the-air penetration outside the Greater Bangor area. However, the station is carried on cable as far away as Skowhegan and Bar Harbor as well as on satellite television. Although WFVX does not broadcast a digital signal of its own, it is carried on WVII's second digital subchannel. This increases WFVX's broadcasting radius to an extent.
[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 ever Fox affiliate to broadcast from Bangor and the first full-time affiliate north of Portland.
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 back on September 5. On weeknights, programming from that network airs at 11:05 P.M. For Saturday prime time, it is delayed until early Sunday morning at 1. The shared website of WFVX and WVII features a generic MyNetworkTV logo.
Previously, the WFVX calls were once used on what is now WFUP in Vanderbilt, Michigan, a former sister station in Michigan that is a full-time satellite of Fox affiliate WFQX-TV in Cadillac, Michigan. WFVX's contract with Time Warner Cable to offer Fox (and now MyNetworkTV) programming in high definition was established at the start of September 2007 and will expire in 2011. WFVX-DT can be seen on digital channel 704 in addtion to being offered over-the-air.
[edit] Programming
There is little in the way of local programming on WFVX. A morning talk show, So Goes The Nation, was met with little success. The show was hosted by fellow broadcasters Charlie Horne and Alan Silberberg from the WFVX & WVII studios in Bangor. The show was carried by WFVX, WPFO in Portland, and WLOB Radio from early-2003 until 2004. The program was a three-hour call-in talk show until September of 2004 when it was reduced to a single hour before eventually being canceled in November of 2004. The station carried Shop at Home overnights until its closure in March 2008, overnight programming mainly consists of infomercials.
[edit] Newscast
Sister station WVII produces a weeknight 10 o'clock newscast which is simulcasted on WNZS. Except for the sports report, the news is taped earlier in the evening. The WFVX & WVII news team consists of five people as WVII outsources weather forecasts to AccuWeather in State College, Pennsylvania. CBS affiliate WABI-TV, with a more established news operation and two outlying news bureaus, produces a weeknight 10 o'clock news as well. It can be seen on its second digital subchannel that has CW affiliation.
[edit] News team
Your Bangor News at 10
(Weeknights 10 to 10:35 P.M.)
- Tony Consiglio - rotating anchor
- producer
- Cindy Michaels - rotating anchor
- reporter and producer
- Sean Cryan - sports director
- Amy Belanger - assignment editor
- Brian Sullivan - reporter
- Aaron Jackson - reporter
AccuWeather Meteorologists
- Jim Kosek (AMS Seal of Approval) - weeknights
- Jack Boston - website
- Bernie Rayno - fill-in
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