14 Facts About WTVX

WTVX is a television station licensed to Fort Pierce, Florida, United States, serving the West Palm Beach area as an affiliate of The CW.

The stations share studios on Fairfield Drive in Mangonia Park, while WTVX's transmitter is located southwest of Palm City, Florida.

WTVX was established in Fort Pierce in 1966 and was the third—and successful—attempt to sustain a television station in that city.

WTVX went on the air on April 5,1966, after broadcasting a test pattern since March 25.

However, a federal investigation into station practices was sparked when Edward Trent, an employee who had been fired the previous year, told the FCC that WTVX engaged in an illegal practice known as "clipping", replacing commercials and short credits sequences from network programs with local commercials.

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WTVX admitted to carrying out clipping in June 1978, claiming it had done so because it had oversold ad time; the station ultimately had its license renewed and paid a $10,000 fine.

From 1972 to 1979, via special arrangement and with the approval of CBS and NBC, WTVX carried Miami Dolphins home games that would have to be blacked out by West Palm Beach stations because their signals reached into the 75-mile blackout radius around the Miami Orange Bowl; hotels on Singer Island invested in antenna systems to receive WTVX and attract patrons when Dolphins games were blacked out.

WTVX found that the Krypton stations needed an infusion of new capital and that they could not be sold if Feltner was still involved.

When UPN and WB merged to form The CW in 2006, WTVX was among 11 charter CBS-owned stations to be announced as an outlet of the new service.

When WTVX went independent, it initially maintained its newscasts, launching the first 10 pm newscast in the West Palm Beach market.

Ratings fell considerably, and WTVX spent the first several months of the year cutting newscast after newscast, while the news staff dropped from 40 to 16 people, and many of those that remained began to look for jobs elsewhere.

In 1996, WTVX started a 10 pm newscast produced by WPBF, which lasted one year and featured such elements as yellow graphics, a faster pace, and a ssegment of Treasure Coast news.

WTVX eventually added simulcasts of WPEC's 9 am and noon newscasts and an airing of Sinclair's Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson, replacing the late newscast with airings of Sinclair's national news program The National Desk.

WTVX discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 34, in December 2008.