12 Facts About WBFF

WBFF is a television station in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, affiliated with Fox and MyNetworkTV.

WBFF first came on the air on April 11,1971, founded by what was then called the Chesapeake Television Corporation, which was controlled by Julian Sinclair Smith.

That same year, WBFF received local competition again when WNUV-TV, then a two-year-old subscription television outlet, began to adopt a general entertainment schedule during the daytime and full-time by 1986.

WBFF nearly lost its Fox affiliation in 1994 when Fox entered talks with WJZ-TV, but it opted to affiliate with CBS instead.

WBFF remains the only station in the Baltimore market never to change its primary network affiliate.

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In July 2021, WBFF-DT2 swapped affiliations with WUTB, with those stations becoming MyNetworkTV and TBD affiliates respectively.

On June 2,2008, WBFF became the first Baltimore television station to begin broadcast its local newscasts in high definition.

WBFF was featured in an episode during the third season of The Simple Life.

In 2015 the station added a 4 p m newscast pushing Judge Judy back to 3 p m On January 20,2013, WBFF debuted weekend morning newscasts, featuring a two-hour Saturday morning newscast and three hours of newscasts on Sunday mornings .

Day after the video aired, WBFF issued an apology over the edited video online, saying the report reflected an "honest misunderstanding" of what the protesters were chanting, and that the report has been removed from the station's website.

WBFF shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 45, on February 17,2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate .

WBFF announced in September 2015 that test broadcasts would begin in Baltimore and Washington, D C for ATSC 3.