WJXT Jacksonville

The Graham Media-owned stations have issued press releases saying they are scheduled to be pulled from the satellite service on July 22 unless a carriage deal can be reached.

Bob Ellis, GM of Graham Holdings’ independent WJXT Jacksonville, Fla. (DMA 48), announced Friday the expansion of his station’s evening news. Reporter-anchor Tarik Minor and reporter-anchor Kent Justice will join […]

With new anchors, new call letters and a new pace, Action News on WFOX and WJAX presents itself as an alternative to the long-established brands of News4Jax (WJXT) and First Coast News (WTLV and WJXX).

The Jacksonville, Fla., independent’s a.m. broadcast will run from 4:30 to 10 a.m. beginning Monday, Oct. 28.

Joy Purdy is rejoining WJXT Jacksonville, Fla. (DMA 48), and will anchor weeknights at 5:30, 6:30 and 11 p.m. with Rob Sweeting. She returns to her former station later this […]

A judge decided Tuesday not to hold the Jacksonville, Fla., independent in contempt for briefly broadcasting part of an arrest report from the Aug. 23 attack of a 9-year-old girl in a Best Buy women’s restroom. “The Court concludes that employees of WJXT, as human beings do at times, made a mistake.”

For TV stations that must now compete in a multiplatform universe, promotion strategies have, by necessity, expanded to far more than just on-air spots. Here’s how two stations that are consistently beating their newspaper competition online stay on top of their game.

In the tourism-heavy Florida city, an unusal online alignment has emerged on the TV side: The Gannett-owned NBC and ABC affiliates share a website, as do the Newport Television-owned Fox and CBS stations. Jacksonville’s atypical team-ups have produced some unique approaches to digital content and revenue.