12 Facts About WFXT

WFXT is a television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, affiliated with the Fox network and owned by Cox Media Group.

WFXT is the largest Fox affiliate by market size that is not owned and operated by the network, although it was previously owned by Fox on two occasions .

The station began airing the syndicated, Fox-produced tabloid magazine A Current Affair on weeknights; WFXT was the second station, after producing station and Fox flagship WNYW in New York City, to air the program.

Nonetheless, under Celtics ownership, WFXT finally began to acquire stronger programming, becoming a serious competitor to WSBK and WLVI for the first time.

In 1990, among securing the rights to several new, high-profile rerun syndication packages, WFXT managed to buy rights to The Cosby Show, reruns of which had been airing on WCVB-TV for the past two years.

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WFXT, meanwhile, began airing Cosby Show reruns on weekdays in the fall of 1990; aside from a couple of years off between 1994 and 1996, The Cosby Show would remain a staple of WFXT's schedule for well over a decade.

Still, for a while under the Celtics' watch, WFXT was perceived to be in danger of losing its Fox affiliation.

WFXT served as the television flagship of the Boston Red Sox for three seasons from 2000 to 2002 .

In November 2014, shortly after the closure of the sale, WFXT was briefly pulled from Verizon FiOS in the Boston area for a week due to a discrepancy in contract negotiations.

WFXT carried a package of weekday afternoon Red Sox spring training games, produced by NESN, in 2018 and 2019.

In September 1995, WFXT announced that the contract with NECN would not be renewed, with the final broadcast airing on October 1.

One year later, Applegate left WFXT to become co-anchor of Good Day New York on then-sister station WNYW and was replaced by former WHDH and WBZ-TV anchor Kim Carrigan.