Fox Television Stations

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Fox Television Stations, LLC
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Broadcast television
Predecessors
FoundedApril 1986;38 years ago (1986-04)
Founders
Headquarters
New York City
,
United States
Area served
  • United States
  • Canada
Key people
Jack Abernethy (CEO)
Parent Fox Corporation
Divisions
Website Fox Corporation

Fox Television Stations, LLC (stylized as FOX TV STATIONS; also known as FTS) is a group of television stations in the United States owned-and-operated by the Fox Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of the Fox Corporation.

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It also oversees the MyNetworkTV programming service and has a half-interest in the Movies! digital sub-channel network, which is shared with Weigel Broadcasting.

History

Foundations

The Fox Television Center in New York City was opened by DuMont in 1954 as the DuMont Tele-Centre. Wnyw-center.jpg
The Fox Television Center in New York City was opened by DuMont in 1954 as the DuMont Tele-Centre.

The Fox Broadcasting Company's foundations were laid in March 1985 through News Corporation's $255 million purchase of a 50% interest in TCF Holdings, the parent company of the 20th Century Fox film studio. In May 1985, News Corporation, a media company owned by Australian publishing magnate Rupert Murdoch that had mainly served as a newspaper publisher at the time of the TCF Holdings deal, agreed to pay $2.55 billion to acquire independent television stations in six major U.S. cities from the John Kluge-run broadcasting company Metromedia: WNEW-TV (now WNYW) in New York City, WTTG in Washington, D.C., KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD in Chicago, and KRLD-TV (now KDAF) in Dallas. A seventh station, ABC affiliate WCVB-TV in Boston, was part of the original transaction but was spun off to the Hearst Broadcasting subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation in a separate, concurrent deal as part of a right of first refusal related to that station's 1982 sale to Metromedia. [1] [2] [3]

Because Metromedia, originally known as Metropolitan Broadcasting at its founding, was spun off from the failed DuMont Television Network, radio personality Clarke Ingram has suggested that the Fox network is a revival or at least a linear descendant of DuMont. [4] The former Metromedia stations WNEW-TV (originally known as WABD) and WTTG were two of the three original owned-and-operated stations of the DuMont network, and the former base of DuMont's operations, the DuMont Tele-Centre in Manhattan, eventually became the present-day Fox Television Center.

On December 31, 1986, WXNE-TV in Boston (later renamed WFXT on January 19, 1987), became the seventh Fox-owned property, [5] and the first to be acquired separately from News Corporation's 1986 purchase of Metromedia's six television stations. However, as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) prohibited the common ownership of a television station and a newspaper in the same market, News Corporation had to apply for and was granted a temporary waiver in order to retain WFXT and the newspaper it had also published, the Boston Herald . In 1989, Fox placed WFXT in a trust company; the following year, it sold the station to the Boston Celtics' ownership group. News Corporation then later sold the Boston Herald in February 1994, eliminating the potential regulatory conflict with reacquiring WFXT. [6] On October 5, 1994, Fox announced it would exercise the purchase option; [7] it retook control of WFXT on July 7, 1995. [8]

In 1990, FTS bought KSTU in Salt Lake City, making it the first network-owned station in Utah.

New World Communications deal

The New World Communications deal affected WAGA-TV in Atlanta, which switched to Fox after a longtime affiliation with CBS. Fox 5 Atlanta sign.JPG
The New World Communications deal affected WAGA-TV in Atlanta, which switched to Fox after a longtime affiliation with CBS.

FTS gained a bulk of stations through the 1997 purchase of New World Communications, succeeding a 1994 business deal between the two companies which led to all of New World's stations switching from other networks to Fox during 1994–95. [9] A significant factor that resulted in Fox's affiliation with, and later purchase of, New World Communications was Fox acquiring TV rights to the National Football League (NFL), primarily covering games involving teams in the National Football Conference (NFC). [9] Because NFL games generate high ratings, owning these stations outright allows FTS to also collect the local advertising revenue, as well as use them as leverage during retransmission consent negotiations with cable and satellite providers. [10]

The original 1994 affiliation deal with New World also triggered a chain of affiliation changes across the country and other multi-station affiliation deals for the next couple of years. Renaissance Broadcasting had previously sold WATL to FTS in 1993 to become a Fox owned-and-operated station, the first network-owned station in Atlanta. FTS was in the planning stages for a news department at the station, and WATL had even gone as far as hiring a news director. However, when the New World affiliation deal was signed, it was agreed that New World's and Atlanta's longtime CBS affiliate WAGA-TV switch to the Fox network. As a result, Fox cancelled the plans for a newscast on WATL and put the station up for sale.

Renaissance Broadcasting had also sold KDVR in Denver, along with its satellite station KFCT in Fort Collins, Colorado, to FTS on November 15, 1994, in exchange for acquiring KDAF in Dallas. One of original core stations that FTS acquired from Metromedia, it was set to lose Fox programming to that market's longtime CBS affiliate, New World's KDFW. [11]

New World was also expanded its own broadcasting holdings in 1994 by buying other stations groups, but its combined purchases ran afoul with the FCC's media ownership rules at the time prohibiting a single company from owning more than twelve television stations nationwide. New World thus established a trust company in preparation for its sale of WGHP in High Point, North Carolina and WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama, which it would place the stations into in September and October 1994 respectively. [12] [13] Under the arrangement, New World owned the licenses of WBRC and WGHP, while its previous owner Citicasters continued to control their operations under outsourcing agreements.

In April 1995, Citicasters transferred the operations of WBRC and WGHP to the FTS, which assumed operational control through time brokerage agreements with New World. Both stations were sold directly to Fox three months later on July 22, 1995. [14] [15] [16]

FTS also acquired WHBQ-TV in Memphis in an unrelated deal on August 18, 1994. [17]

Among the other affiliation changes, most notable was Westinghouse Broadcasting's affiliation deal with CBS in 1995. This set off a complex trade of Philadelphia stations between CBS/Westinghouse and NBC; FTS instead independently bought its own Philadelphia station, WTXF-TV.

When New World's sale to Fox closed in 1997, ten stations became Fox owned-and-operated stations: KSAZ-TV in Phoenix; WTVT in Tampa, Florida; WAGA-TV in Atlanta; WJBK in Detroit; KTBC in Austin, Texas; KDFW in Dallas; WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Missouri; KTVI in St. Louis; WJW in Cleveland; and WITI in Milwaukee.

Chris-Craft deal

The studios for KRIV and KTXH in Houston, one of the duopolies FTS created after the Chris-Craft acquisition and its subsequent trades KRIVFox26Channel20StationHouston.JPG
The studios for KRIV and KTXH in Houston, one of the duopolies FTS created after the Chris-Craft acquisition and its subsequent trades

FTS gained stations through the 2000 acquisition of the Chris-Craft/United group, which gave Fox ownership of several stations then affiliated with the UPN network (which had been a partnership between Chris-Craft and Viacom (Paramount's subsidiary) until March 2000 when the latter company bought the former's stake), and also created several duopolies (two stations in the same market owned by the same company). [18] When the deal was finalized in 2001, this immediately created duopolies (two stations in the same market owned by the same company) between Fox and former Chris-Craft stations in markets such as Phoenix (KSAZ and KUTP), Los Angeles (KTTV and KCOP-TV) and New York City (WNYW and WWOR-TV).

Although former Chris-Craft station KTVX would have also created a duopoly with Fox station KSTU in Salt Lake City, FCC regulations at the time prohibited one company from owning two of the four highest-rated stations in a single market. FTS thus traded both KTVX and the former Chris-Craft station KMOL (now WOAI-TV) in San Antonio to Clear Channel Communications in 2001 in exchange for WFTC in Minneapolis, creating a duopoly for FTS with former Chris-Craft station KMSP-TV. Because KMSP had the stronger signal due to being a VHF station, while WFTC was a UHF station, FTS decided to switch the affiliations in 2002, with Fox programming going to KMSP and WFTC taking over the UPN affiliation. [19]

FTS then bought KDFI in Dallas in 2000 and WPWR-TV in Chicago in 2002 to create duopolies with Fox-owned stations, KDFW and WFLD, respectively. FTS also made two other trades in 2002 to create more duopolies. Former Chris-Craft station KPTV in Portland, Oregon was traded to the Meredith Corporation in exchange for WOFL in Orlando, Florida, creating a duopoly with former Chris-Craft station WRBW. FTS then traded former Chris-Craft station KBHK (now KPYX) in San Francisco to Viacom for UPN stations KTXH in Houston and WDCA in Washington, D.C., creating duopolies with original Fox-owned stations KRIV and WTTG, receptively. WUTB in Baltimore was the only acquired Chris-Craft station during this time that FTS did not trade away or create a duopoly with.

Formation of MyNetworkTV

The studios for KDFW and KDFI in Dallas KDFWstudiosandofficesbuilding.jpg
The studios for KDFW and KDFI in Dallas

The Fox-owned UPN affiliates were not included in the UPN/WB merger (The CW), which was announced on January 23, 2006. Soon after, these stations removed references to UPN from their on-air branding and websites. On February 22, 2006, FTS announced that all nine of their non-Fox outlets will be charter affiliates of a new service known as MyNetworkTV, which commenced operations on September 5, 2006, with telenovela programming that was original to be syndicated. [20] On May 23, 2016, it was announced that one of the Fox-owned former UPN affiliates that were left out of the initial negotiations for CW affiliation a decade earlier, MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station WPWR in Chicago, would be taking over the market's affiliation with the network from rival WGN-TV in September of that year. MyNetworkTV remained on WPWR as a secondary affiliation until 2019, when the CW affiliation transferred to WCIU-TV.

On December 21, 2007, FTS announced that it would sell eight smaller-market stations to Local TV, LLC, a division of Oak Hill Capital Partners. [21] Six of the stations that were sold were ex-New World stations, including the two stations that were first acquired by FTS directly in 1995 (WGHP in High Point, North Carolina and WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama) and four via the 1997 merger (WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Missouri; KTVI in St. Louis; WJW in Cleveland; and WITI in Milwaukee. The other three were KSTU in Salt Lake City, and KDVR in Denver and with its satellite station KFCT in Fort Collins, Colorado. The transaction was completed in 2008.

In January 2009, NBC Owned Television Stations and FTS set up the first Local News Service with their Philadelphia stations after testing since the summer 2008. Fox and NBC then added other markets where they both own stations. [22]

On May 15, 2012, as part of a five-year affiliation agreement extension between Fox and Sinclair Broadcast Group's 19 Fox affiliates (including company flagship WBFF) that will run through 2017, Fox included an option for Sinclair to purchase WUTB, exercisable from July 1, 2012, to March 31, 2013. On November 29, 2012, Sinclair exercised its option to purchase WUTB through Deerfield Media. [23] [24] On May 6, 2013, the FCC granted its approval of WUTB to Deerfield Media, which was formally consummated on June 1. [25]

Expansion into more NFL markets

Longtime Fox affiliate KTVU in the San Francisco Bay Area was one of the several stations in NFL markets that FTS acquired during the 2010s. KTVU-TV Fox Station 15367001246.jpg
Longtime Fox affiliate KTVU in the San Francisco Bay Area was one of the several stations in NFL markets that FTS acquired during the 2010s.

On January 28, 2013, FTS announced that 17 of their stations would be affiliating with new subchannel network, Movies!, which is a joint venture between FTS and Weigel Broadcasting, on their subchannels. [26] That same day, the company announced it would be acquiring the Charlotte duopoly of CW affiliate WJZY and MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYT-TV from Capitol Broadcasting Company. [27] The deal was approved by the FCC on March 11 [28] and completed on April 17. [29] [30] As part of the deal, WJZY became a Fox owned-and-operated station on July 1.[ citation needed ] The station community believed that the Charlotte station's purchase by FTS is proof that Fox is interested in owning a TV station in NFL markets (specifically those with NFC teams, as Charlotte is) to up the station groups' "bargaining power in retransmission consent negotiations with cable, satellite and telco operators." [10]

As part of the restructuring that stemmed from the News Corporation/21st Century Fox split, it was announced on July 8, 2013, that 20th Television, which was until that time under FTS, will operate under the management of 20th Century Fox Television. [31]

On June 24, 2014, FTS announced it would acquire its existing San Francisco Bay Area affiliate KTVU, along with its duopoly sister independent station KICU-TV, from Cox Media Group in exchange for WFXT in Boston and WHBQ-TV in Memphis. [32] [33] [34] The station sale/trade was completed on October 8, 2014. [35] Fox's motivation for acquiring KTVU was that it was another NFL market with an NFC team. [32]

In addition to FTS's aforementioned purchases of Charlotte's WJZY in 2013 and the San Francisco Bay Area's KTVU in 2014, Variety reported that Fox is also interested in acquiring stations in the following other NFL markets: Seattle and St. Louis (the latter's KTVI had previously been owned by Fox, but was included in the 2007 sale to Local TV; [10] with the St. Louis Rams relocating to Los Angeles starting with the 2016 NFL season, there is no word as to whether or not FTS' pursuit of a station in the St. Louis market has diminished). While discussions with Seattle's Fox affiliate KCPQ and its owner Tribune Broadcasting remained ongoing, Fox struck a deal on September 19, 2014, to buy KBCB, a station in nearby Bellingham, for $10 million; [36] the purchase, submitted for FCC approval on October 3, [37] [38] was described as a "strategic option" for Fox by an insider. [39] Tribune then agreed on October 17 to extend its affiliation agreement for KCPQ through July 2018, and pay increased reverse compensation fees to Fox for the broadcasting of the network's programming beginning in January 2015. [40] Fox's application to acquire KBCB was dismissed by the FCC on November 20, 2014. [41]

On January 20, 2015, it was announced that Fox Television Stations would be a charter launch partner for Buzzr, a new digital multicast network from Debmar-Mercury and FremantleMedia North America devoted to classic game shows, which launched that June. [42] Later in the year, FTS also agreed to carry Weigel Broadcasting's Heroes & Icons network on subchannels of 11 major market stations. [43]

On April 30, 2017, it was reported that 21st Century Fox was in talks to purchase Tribune Media in a joint venture with the Blackstone Group. [44] [45] On May 7, 2017, it was reported that Sinclair Broadcast Group was nearing a deal to purchase Tribune Media, [46] [47] and that 21st Century Fox had dropped its bid for the company. [48] [49] The deal was officially announced the next day. [50] (However, on August 9, 2018, Tribune canceled the Sinclair deal.) [51] On August 2, 2017, it was reported that 21st Century Fox was in talks to form a similar joint venture with Ion Media in an effort to counter Sinclair and displace Fox affiliations from their stations; analysts felt that the proposed partnership was meant as a bargaining ploy against Sinclair, as it would have to make significant investments into the acquired stations to make them profitable and capable of producing local news programming (Ion stations have historically had few employees or local infrastructure), and that Fox risked losing viewers through these transitions. [52] [53] [54]

In January 2018, the Financial Times reported that FTS was finalizing a deal to acquire as many as 10 Fox affiliates from Sinclair, as part of an effort to reach FCC approval of its proposed acquisition of Tribune Media. The deal would likely include Seattle's KCPQ (as Sinclair already owns ABC affiliate KOMO-TV there), KOKH-TV in Oklahoma City (Tribune already owns KFOR-TV), KSTU-TV in Salt Lake City (Sinclair already owns KUTV), KTVI in St. Louis (Sinclair owns KDNL) and Tribune's Fox/CW duopoly of KDVR and KWGN in Denver. This deal would bring several former O&Os previously divested to Local TV, LLC (which was acquired by Tribune) back under Fox ownership. [55] [56]

On May 9, 2018, Fox announced it would purchase KCPQ, KDVR, KSTU, KTXL in Sacramento, KSWB-TV in San Diego, WJW in Cleveland and WSFL-TV, the CW affiliate for Miami-Fort Lauderdale. The move would give Fox stations in the home markets for the Seattle Seahawks, Denver Broncos, Cleveland Browns and Miami Dolphins as the network takes over the Thursday Night Football package from CBS and NBC. [57] [58] After Tribune terminated its merger agreement with Sinclair on August 9, 2018, however, the sale of the seven aforementioned stations to FTS was likewise nullified.

Fox Corporation subsidiary

On December 14, 2017, after rumors of such a sale, The Walt Disney Company announced that it would purchase FTS's parent company, 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion, plus the assumption of $13.7 billion in debt by Fox, subject to government approval. FTS, along with several other assets was spun off into Fox Corporation, a company owned by the Murdoch family. [59] The deal was completed on March 20, 2019. [60]

With the loss of Twentieth Television in the deal, Fox Stations set up its own syndication arm, Fox First Run, [61] despite some of their syndicated shows being distributed in conjunction with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution and Dish Nation has barter sales with Trifecta Entertainment and Media. [62]

On November 5, 2019, Nexstar Media Group announced an agreement to sell WITI in Milwaukee (effectively a re-purchase) and KCPQ and KZJO in Seattle to Fox Television Stations, and would purchase from Fox WJZY and WMYT-TV in Charlotte. This gives Fox additional two bigger NFL team market stations in the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks while losing the Carolina Panthers market. [63]

Streaming

On January 13, 2020, FTS launched Fox Soul, a free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel targeting the African American community. [64]

Also in 2020, FTS launched LiveNOW from Fox, a streaming news channel jointly operated by KSAZ, KTTV, and WOFL. The channel carries live coverage of breaking news events throughout the day as directed by a small crew of digital journalists, leveraging resources and raw footage from Fox's local news departments. The service originated from a Fox 10 News Now webcast that had been run by KSAZ; amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the channel soft launched a national expansion by becoming "CoronavirusNow" (with contributions from the national Fox News and Fox Business networks), before adopting its current name later that year. [65] [66]

Units

Stations

Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and city of license.

This list is complete and up to date as of August 2022.

Current

City of license / Market StationChannelOwned sinceNetwork affiliation
Phoenix, AZ KSAZ-TV 101997 [a] Fox
KUTP 452001 [b] MyNetworkTV
Los Angeles, CA KTTV 111986 [c] Fox
KCOP 132001 [b] MyNetworkTV
Oakland–San Jose–San Francisco, CA KTVU 22014 [d] Fox
KICU-TV 362014 [d] MyNetworkTV
Washington, D.C. WTTG 51986 [c] Fox
WDCA 202002MyNetworkTV
Ocala–Gainesville, FL WOGX [e] 512002 [f] Fox
Orlando–Daytona Beach, FL WOFL 352002 [f] Fox
WRBW 652001 [b] MyNetworkTV
Tampa–St. Petersburg, FL WTVT 131997 [a] Fox
Atlanta, GA WAGA-TV 51997 [a] Fox
Chicago, IL WFLD 321986 [c] Fox
WPWR-TV 502002MyNetworkTV
Detroit, MI WJBK 21997 [a] Fox
Minneapolis–St. Paul, MN KMSP-TV 92001 [b] Fox
WFTC 9.22002MyNetworkTV
KFTC [g] 262002Fox (DT1)
MyNetworkTV (DT2)
New York, NY WNYW 51986 [c] Fox
WWOR-TV 92001 [b] MyNetworkTV
Philadelphia, PA WTXF-TV 291995Fox
Austin, TX KTBC 71997 [a] Fox
Dallas–Fort Worth, TX KDFW 41997 [a] Fox
KDFI 272000MyNetworkTV
Houston, TX KRIV 261986 [c] Fox
KTXH 202002MyNetworkTV
Tacoma–Seattle, WA KCPQ 132020 [h] Fox
KZJO 222020 [h] MyNetworkTV
Milwaukee, WI WITI 62020 [a] [h] [i] Fox

Former

City of license / MarketStationChannelYears ownedCurrent status
Birmingham, AL WBRC-TV 61995–2008 Fox affiliate owned by Gray Television
San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose, CA KBHK-TV442001–2002 [b] Independent station KPYX, owned by CBS News and Stations
Denver, CO KDVR 311995–2008Fox affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
Fort Collins, CO KFCT [j] 221995–2008Fox affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
Atlanta, GA WATL 361993–1995 MyNetworkTV affiliate owned by Tegna Inc.
Baltimore, MD WUTB 242001–2013 [b] TBD affiliate owned by Deerfield Media [k]
Boston, MA WCVB-TV 51986 [c] [l] ABC affiliate owned by Hearst Television
WFXT 25
  • 1987–1990
  • 1995–2014
Fox affiliate owned by Cox Media Group
Kansas City, MO WDAF-TV 41997–2008 [a] Fox affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
St. Louis, MO KTVI 21997–2008 [a] Fox affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
Charlotte, NC WJZY 462013–2020Fox affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
WMYT-TV 552013–2020MyNetworkTV affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
High Point–Greensboro–Winston-Salem, NC WGHP 81995–2008Fox affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
Cleveland, OH WJW-TV 81997–2008 [a] Fox affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
Portland, OR KPTV 122001–2002 [b] Fox affiliate owned by Gray Television
Memphis, TN WHBQ-TV 131995–2014Fox affiliate owned by Imagicomm Communications
Austin, TX K13VC 131997–2003 [a] Defunct
Dallas–Fort Worth, TX KDAF 331986–1995 [c] The CW owned-and-operated (O&O) station owned by Nexstar Media Group
San Antonio, TX KMOL-TV42001 [b] NBC affiliate WOAI-TV, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
Salt Lake City, UT KSTU 131990–2008Fox affiliate owned by the E. W. Scripps Company
KTVX 42001 [b] ABC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Acquired from New World Communications.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Acquired from Chris-Craft Industries/BHC Communications.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Original Fox-owned station from the network's inception in 1986.
  4. 1 2 Acquired from Cox Media Group.
  5. ↑ Semi-satellite of WOFL.
  6. 1 2 Acquired from Meredith Corporation.
  7. ↑ Satellite of WFTC.
  8. 1 2 3 Acquired as divestitures from Nexstar Media Group's acquisition of Tribune Broadcasting.
  9. ↑ Previously owned from 1997–2008.
  10. ↑ Satellite of KDVR.
  11. ↑ Operated under an LMA by Sinclair Broadcast Group.
  12. ↑ WCVB-TV was included in the original sale of the Metromedia stations to News Corporation, but was spun off in a separate, concurrent deal to the Hearst Corporation as part of a right of first refusal related to that station's 1982 acquisition by Metromedia.
This list does not include KHON-TV in Honolulu, WLUK-TV in Green Bay, WVUE in New Orleans, and WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama, which are owned by SF Broadcasting, a joint venture between Savoy Pictures and Fox television network, they acquired from Burnham Broadcasting prior to the foundation of SF Broadcasting by former Fox executive Barry Diller, which also owns Silver King Broadcasting and HSN owned-and-operated stations during the entire period.

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