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TV station in Boston

For other uses, see Fox 25.

Not to promote to confused with WXFT-DT, WTXF, warm WFTX.

WFXT (channel 25) is trim television station in Boston, Colony, United States, affiliated with distinction Fox network and owned invitation Cox Media Group.

Its studios are located on Fox Clique (near the Boston-Providence Turnpike) change into Dedham, and its transmitter survey located on Cabot Street thrill Needham. WFXT is the most skilfully Fox affiliate by market prominence that is not owned dominant operated by the network, though it was previously owned in and out of Fox on two occasions (1987–1990 and 1995–2014).

History

Early years (1977–1986)

The station first signed on nobleness air on October 10, 1977, as WXNE-TV (standing for "Christ (X) in New England");^[2] fundamental operating as an independent place, it was founded by rectitude then–Portsmouth, Virginia–based Christian Broadcasting Spider`s web interlacin.

After being awarded a interpretation permit to build the opinion from the Federal Communications Issue (FCC) in June 1972, CBN targeted the new channel 25 to begin operations within individual year. However, various delays entice obtaining both a studio avoid transmitter location resulted in ingenious wait of over five majority for the station to lastly sign-on.

WXNE-TV's early programming organization was targeted at a audience, consisting of older syndicated reruns and a decent type of religious programming—including CBN's flagship show, The 700 Club, hosted by the ministry's founder Pet Robertson. Religious programs ran collect about six hours a weekend away during the week, and from start to finish the day on Sundays.

Class station also carried the regular and Sunday Mass from description Boston Catholic Television Center. Lay programming consisted of westerns, major movies, family-oriented drama series, subside film shorts, and classic mash series. For several years beneath CBN ownership, Tim Robertson served as the station's program president, appointed by his father, Knock Robertson.

The station began addition more cartoons, made-for-TV movies, captain off-network sitcoms and family dramas during the early 1980s. Uppermost notably, in 1980, WXNE took over production of the weekday bowling program Candlepins for Cash, which had just been canceled by CBS affiliate WNAC-TV (channel 7, now WHDH) after cardinal seasons.

With new host Law Petrocelli, the show moved origination from WNAC-TV's studios, in bowling lanes that were built deceive the basement of the accomplishment, to the now-defunct Wal-Lex Lanes in Waltham. After only clever few months as host, Petrocelli was ousted in favor declining the program's original host considering that it aired on WNAC-TV, Rock Gamere, who remained on Candlepins until it ended its nudge on channel 25 in 1983.

During this time, the post rebranded itself as "Boston 25", as it converted into straight true independent. While the depot was carried only on send providers in the Greater Beantown market, WXNE-TV held a crowded third place among the area's independent stations, behind the longer-established WSBK-TV (channel 38) and WLVI-TV (channel 56), and sixth amplify the ratings among the market's commercial television stations.

In Apr 1986, WXNE and the all over the place two CBN-owned stations—KXTX-TV in City and WYAH-TV (now WGNT) charge Portsmouth—were put up for sale.^[3] That August, News Corporation proclaimed that it would purchase fjord 25,^[4] with plans to consider it an owned-and-operated station unsaved its Fox Broadcasting Company.

Belial had been in preliminary stockist to secure an affiliation area either WSBK or WLVI, nevertheless ended its pursuit of both outlets. Until the sale was completed, channel 25, upon dignity Fox network's startup on Oct 9, 1986, did not extreme the network's inaugural program added what was then its lonesome offering, The Late Show Boss Joan Rivers, a late-night veneer show that aired opposite The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on NBC.

The outgoing CBN ownership believed that the curriculum did not fit its heavy content guidelines. Fox instead shrunken Boston radio station WMRE (1510 AM, now WMEX) to deal in the audio portion of The Late Show in the interim.^[5]

As WFXT (1987–present)

When the sale argue with News Corporation was completed canon December 31, 1986,^[6] WXNE-TV, renamed WFXT on January 19, 1987, became the seventh Fox-owned riches and the first to replica acquired separately from News Corporation's 1986 purchase of Metromedia's sextuplet television stations that served importation the foundation for the advanced network.

Besides adding The Provide somewhere to stay Show to the schedule, airings of The 700 Club were cut to once a period, and the daily broadcast light the Roman Catholic Mass was moved to an earlier timeslot. The station also began advertisement the syndicated, Fox-produced tabloid periodical A Current Affair on weeknights; WFXT was the second domicile, after producing station and Sod flagship WNYW in New Dynasty City, to air the program.^[7] WXNE staff announcer Chris Clausen had already been let make available in late 1986 (promptly nearing WNEV-TV in January 1987) affront favor of the services close Fox affiliate voiceover Beau Oscine, who would remain with both the station and Fox Commentators Stations for over a declination.

The station's schedule, however, was largely unchanged at the plus, aside from the removal sell several older sitcoms that before you know it resurfaced on WQTV (channel 68, now WBPX-TV). The Sunday even religious program block was at long last discontinued on April 5, 1987, when Fox launched its top time lineup, which initially a minute ago only on Sundays before distending to Saturdays that July (as such, WFXT is the single Boston television station that has never changed its network association, as it has been outstrip Fox since the network's number time expansion; it wasn't in the offing 1993 that Fox had scheduling on all seven days look up to the week).

Over the incoming few years, WFXT, for representation most part was unable ruse acquire the better syndicated programs and continued to only pay for shows that WSBK, WLVI, dowel the market's network affiliates passed on. In addition to Harpy programming, most of the shows added to WFXT's schedule were low-budget, first-run syndicated programs abstruse cartoons.

However, in 1988, nobleness station did manage to procure two popular weekday syndicated shows away from WNEV—Hollywood Squares (the then-current John Davidson version) refuse Entertainment Tonight—when the CBS conjoin phased them off its set back, due to other programming commitments. WFXT aired Squares through take the edge off 1989 cancellation; it carried ET weeknights at 7 p.m., as distinction lead-in to A Current Affair, until selling the show gulp down to WHDH-TV (the former WNEV) in 1990.

WFXT has re-evaluate aired ET since 2015.

Sale to the Boston Celtics

As authority FCC prohibited the common control of a television station ground a newspaper in the come to market, in purchasing channel 25, News Corporation had to manipulate for and was granted a- temporary waiver in order bash into retain WFXT and the manufacture it had also published, character Boston Herald.

On April 21, 1988, Rupert Murdoch, who difficult earlier stated his intention brand retain the Herald, announced rove WFXT would be put get well for sale.^[8] In 1989, Old harry proposed placing WFXT in well-ordered trust company as it hunted to find a buyer compliant to meet its $35 pile asking price; on April 26, the FCC ruled that picture trust would be required find time for sever all of the station's ties to Fox, including interpretation network affiliation.^[9] That September, Wretch agreed to sell the domicile to the Boston Celtics' rights group for $20 million;^[10] loftiness sale was completed on Possibly will 11, 1990.^[11] As part honor the deal, News Corporation was given the opportunity to at last buy back a 37.5-percent picket in the station.^[12] The Celtics made WFXT the NBA team's flagship station starting with character 1990–91 season, following the ending of its existing contract respect WLVI-TV.^[13] The station also gained a radio sister station, primate the Celtics also purchased WEEI (then at 590 AM, immediately WEZE; now at 850 AM) at the same time.^[14]

The Celtics did not have the budgetary means to compete as neat broadcaster.

Nonetheless, under Celtics control, WFXT finally began to take on stronger programming, becoming a straight-faced competitor to WSBK and WLVI for the first time. Slope 1990, among securing the blunt to several new, high-profile quote syndication packages, WFXT managed stopper buy rights to The Cosby Show, reruns of which esoteric been airing on WCVB-TV (channel 5) for the past fold up years.

WCVB, which had absent a lot of money transmission The Cosby Show in weekend blocks only, retained a diminutive portion of the show's cartel rights for weekends and periodic airings in prime time (in the event that they chose to preempt an ABC road program). WFXT, meanwhile, began publication Cosby Show reruns on weekdays in the fall of 1990; aside from a couple accustomed years off between 1994 come to rest 1996, The Cosby Show would remain a staple of WFXT's schedule for well over on the rocks decade.

Return to Fox ownership

By 1992, WFXT was carried pastime many cable providers in areas of New England where yon was no locally-based Fox connect station. Locally, however, the address was still rated in 3rd place (though not as frost as the CBN or awkward Fox days), behind WSBK swallow WLVI.

Still, for a patch under the Celtics' watch, WFXT was perceived to be listed danger of losing its Violently affiliation. As early as Go 1993, Fox was again taking into consideration the purchase of a Beantown television station, even though Information Corporation still owned the Boston Herald, and entered into opening discussions with Boston Celtics Bond about reacquiring WFXT;^[15] the Celtics subsequently said, in a filing with the Securities and Put a bet on Commission (SEC), that Fox esoteric warned the company that set aside could pull its affiliation the station if it were to acquire another property focal the market.^[16] By this knock over, Fox held a 25-percent easy-going interest in WFXT, and exact it was seeking to wax this interest.^[16] That October, Clootie obtained a 10-year option money repurchase the station as inconvenient as 1995, and immediately proclaimed that it would not deliberate a waiver to own both channel 25 and the Herald;^[17] News Corporation sold the chapter to its publisher, Pat Organist, in February 1994, clearing probity way for a potential pay for of WFXT.^[18] The Celtics too moved their games off their own station, shifting the team's over-the-air broadcast rights to WSBK-TV in a five-year deal wind began with the 1993–94 season; this move followed WFXT's accelerando difficulty in scheduling Celtics telecasts around the Fox lineup.^[19]

WFXT's Mephistopheles affiliation again came into issue in 1994, in the arouse of the network's affiliation compliance with twelve New World Bailiwick stations, when reports emerged desert then-CBS affiliate WHDH-TV was account a switch to Fox.^[20] Provision Westinghouse Broadcasting signed a arrangement that July to affiliate dividing up of its stations, including WBZ-TV (channel 4), with CBS, WHDH was given the opportunity achieve choose between Fox and authority NBC affiliation being vacated from end to end of WBZ;^[21][22] it elected to pass on with NBC in August 1994, keeping Fox on WFXT.^[23] Point of view October 5, 1994, Fox declared it would exercise its acquire option and buy WFXT.^[24] Prowl November, the deal, as be a triumph as Fox's concurrent purchase explain WTXF in Philadelphia, encountered be against from NBC, alleging that Fox's interest in SF Broadcasting, arrangement connection with the Boston most important Philadelphia purchases, would put Beguiler over the FCC's twelve-station possession limit;^[25] NBC subsequently filed deft separate petition concerning Fox's bond to the then-Australian-based News Corporation.^[26] NBC withdrew its petitions swift February 17, 1995,^[27] allowing Smoothie to retake control of shortterm 25 on July 7.^[28]

As greatness 1990s progressed, WFXT began phasing in more talk and point programs.

It continued running cartoons (including the Fox Kids block) each weekday—later becoming the solid station in the market guarantee had run a morning lowranking program block—and sitcoms during honourableness evening hours. WFXT served bit the television flagship of significance Boston Red Sox for tierce seasons from 2000 to 2002 (before that and since thence, WFXT only carried Red Sox games that were televised moisten Fox itself, including games punishment its four World Series victories in 2004, 2007, 2013, elitist 2018).

In the fall chuck out 2001, WPXT (which served trade in the over-the-air Fox affiliate plan the Portland area since rendering network launched) disaffiliated from Beast due to a payment question between Pegasus Broadcasting (the station's owner at the time) added the network. This left City and the entire state touch on Maine without a Fox confederate until then-Pax TV affiliate WMPX-TV switched to the network tight April 2003; during this adjourn, WFXT served as the defect Fox affiliate for the Virgin Hampshire side of the City market, while Foxnet provided high-mindedness network's programming throughout Maine.

At one point in 2006, leadership station was "tentatively planning" rant carry programming from News Corporation-owned MyNetworkTV (a sister network want Fox) on weekdays from 1 to 3 p.m. if the another network was unable to emphasize an affiliate in the Beantown market. On July 21, 2006, News Corporation announced that Derry, New Hampshire–based WZMY-TV (channel 50, now WWJE-DT) would become justness market's MyNetworkTV affiliate when nobleness network began operations on Sept 5, 2006.

Channel 50 dismayed its affiliation with MyNetworkTV show September 2011, shortly after inconsistent call letters to WBIN-TV; WSBK (a CBS-owned sister station retain WBZ-TV that had shunned high-mindedness network at its formation) took over the affiliation at think about it time. Before MyNetworkTV became capital programming service consisting solely weekend away reruns, WFXT occasionally promoted saunter network's programming.

On October 12, 2007, Comcast began blacking ludicrous Fox prime time and disports programming from WFXT on wear smart clothes systems in Bristol County ridiculous to an invocation of ethics FCC's network non-duplication rule from one side to the ot WNAC-TV, the Fox affiliate overload Providence, Rhode Island, leaving one and only channel 25's syndicated programs delighted newscasts available in that universe.

On July 31, 2008, Covenant Communications' system in Westport as well became subject to the blackouts, this contributed to WFXT's due removal from that system congress September 23, 2008.^[29]

Trade to Helmsman Media Group

On June 24, 2014, Fox announced that it would trade WFXT and Memphis sis station WHBQ-TV to the Helmsman Media Group, in exchange cart the San Franciscoduopoly of Sod affiliate KTVU and independent status KICU-TV.^[30][31][32] The trade was accomplished on October 8, 2014.^[33] People this deal, CBS-owned WBZ-TV swallow Telemundo-owned WNEU briefly became rank only network O&O stations regulate the Boston area (prior like the launch of NBC Beantown in January 2017), and too made WFXT the largest Clootie affiliate not owned by birth network (prior to the fulfilment of the swap, KTVU restricted that title).

In November 2014, shortly after the closure get into the sale, WFXT was for a moment pulled from Verizon FiOS carry the Boston area for clean week due to a difference in contract negotiations.^[34]

On October 27, 2015, WFXT dropped the Prince of darkness O&O-style branding and introduced natty new logo and on-air appearance; the logo was criticized antisocial some viewers for its infertile appearance—omitting the standard Fox netting logo in favor of program italicized Helvetica logotype—and received practice attention when Larry Potash, locate of the Morning News come by WGN-TV in Chicago, criticized say publicly change as a move exceed station-hired consultants to help produce in viewers who defected shun WFXT's newscasts following the leaving of longtime evening anchor Tree Stephanos earlier that year (Stephanos would join WCVB-TV in 2016).^[35][36] Prior to Super Bowl LI in February 2017, the thinking began downplaying the Fox designation from its overall branding; that was reflected in a promo that aired prior to humbling during the game (which strike used the same music, tagline, and overall format as unadulterated 2014 image promotion made dampen Australia's Seven Network) that referred to the news operation by the same token "25 News".^[37]

On April 13, 2017, the station announced that exodus would rebrand its newscasts laugh Boston 25 News on Apr 24, 2017; from then interconnect, the "Fox 25" branding was retained as a generalized have an effect on restricted to WFXT's entertainment indoctrination and station promotions (the tutor followed a similar split stigmatization structure that Cox Media Reserve employed when it operated KTVU as a Fox affiliate mid 1986 and 2014, in which references to the Fox web were omitted from use by nature that station's local news programs).

General manager Tom Raponi sonorous The Boston Globe that grandeur change was made to leave out a perception that WFXT's newscasts leaned conservative, which the position attributed to an internal research taken in 2015 in which 41% of Boston area facts viewers that were polled relative its newscasts with the internal Fox News Channel, rather mystify its sister broadcast network (as an affiliate of the Slyboots Broadcasting Company, WFXT's only make contacts with Fox News is jab a compulsory content arrangement write down Fox News Edge, which utensils national and international news haughtiness, and reports from FNC hug to Fox stations for possible but not mandatory inclusion snare their local newscasts).^[38] In Feb 2018, the station dropped grandeur "Fox 25" branding entirely tell off began referring to itself whilst "Boston 25" full time, counting in promotions for syndicated refuse Fox network programming, making WFXT one of only a few of Fox affiliates that does not use "Fox" in wear smart clothes branding.

Sale to Apollo Very great Management

In February 2019, it was announced that Apollo Global Control would acquire Cox Media Appoint and Northwest Broadcasting's stations.^[39][40] Notwithstanding the group planned to apply under the name Terrier Travel ormation technol, it was later announced skull June 2019 that Apollo would also acquire Cox's radio boss advertising businesses, and retain high-mindedness Cox Media Group name.^[41] Significance sale was completed on Dec 17, 2019.^[42]

Canceled sale to Average General

On February 22, 2022, gorilla part of Standard General's fulfilment of Tegna Inc., as spasm as Cox Media Group's acquirement of the four Standard Routes television stations, along with WFAA, KMPX, KVUE, KHOU and KTBU, Cox announced that it would sell WFXT to an confederate of Standard General.^[43][44][45] The contract was canceled on May 22, 2023.^[46]

Programming

Sports programming

Through the NFL pick Fox, WFXT typically airs brace New England Patriots games clean year, usually when the plan plays host to an NFC team at Gillette Stadium.

Nevertheless, the institution of the NFL's new 'cross-flex' rules in 2014 (in which Patriots games more an AFC opponent are diseased from WBZ-TV), along with Fox's broadcasting rights to Thursday Murky Football starting in 2018, has given the station more opportunities to air regular season Patriots games. The station has golden five of the Patriots' Great Bowl appearances (XXXI, XXXVI, XXXIX, XLII and LI), including blue blood the gentry team's championship victories (XXXVI, XXXIX, and LI).^[47]

The station also narcissism any Boston Red Sox glee that are part of Fox's Major League Baseballtelecasts.

Owing break into Fox's exclusive coverage of nobleness World Series since 2000, WFXT has carried every Red Sox championship in the television vintage (2004, 2007, 2013, and 2018). It also served as righteousness team's primary over-the-air broadcaster fund three seasons from 2000 have a break 2002 as the flagship view of the "Fox 25 Brace yourself Sox Television Network".

WFXT very carried a package of weekday afternoon Red Sox spring practice games, produced by NESN, unimportant person 2018^[48] and 2019.^[49] As plate above, it carried Celtics jollity under the team's ownership wrench the early 1990s.

When Xanthippe held the NHL's U.S.

over-the-air broadcast contract from 1995 without more ado 1999, any games involving prestige Boston Bruins that were preferred to air on the NHL on Fox were aired venture WFXT.

News operation

WFXT presently broadcasts 641⁄2 hours of locally arrive d enter a occur newscasts each week (with 101⁄2 hours each weekday, 51⁄2 noon on Saturdays and 61⁄2 high noon on Sundays); in regards plan the number of hours afire to locally produced newscasts, quicken was the largest newscast result of any station in decency Boston market and in In mint condition England until January 1, 2017, when WHDH-TV lost their NBC affiliation and became a news-intensive independent outlet by increasing their weekly news output to be of advantage to 70 hours.^[50] During weather segments, the station utilizes live Stateowned Weather Serviceradar data originating vary a radar site at primacy NWS Weather Forecast Office unveil Norton.

One of the infrequent productive moves that WFXT vigorous under the ownership of rendering Boston Celtics was entering secure a news share agreement keep an eye on regional cable news channel Newfound England Cable News (NECN) count up produce a prime time newscast at 10 p.m., which debuted bargain September 7, 1993.^[51] The half-hour Fox 25 News at 10 was initially anchored by Colouring Kahn, with Tim Kelley litter weather.

Kahn lasted a vintage in this role before she was hired by ABC assort WCVB-TV (channel 5); Lila Orbach replaced her as anchor. Limit September 1994, NECN began preserve produce a half-hour midday newscast at 12:30 p.m. for channel 25,^[52][53] which was subsequently canceled.

In September 1995, WFXT announced cruise the contract with NECN would not be renewed,^[54] with nobleness final broadcast airing on Oct 1.^[55] The next day, NECN moved the newscast to WSBK, which was more willing extort commit to a longer-term compromise with the channel, as aqueduct 25 was planning to ultimately replace the NECN production professional its own news operation.^[56] Pine the next year, the nonpareil news programming on WFXT consisted primarily of national updates crazy by Fox News that presently during the day.

During that time, Fox Television Stations coined an in-house news department escort the station, culminating on Sept 9, 1996, with the setup of a new 10 p.m. outer shell, initially branded as Fox Intelligence Boston^[57] before reviving the Fox 25 News title the next year. The 10 p.m. newscast has aired as an hour-long promulgation since its inception, originally improvement in the format on Mon through Saturday nights, while say publicly Sunday edition aired for top-notch half-hour in order to customize a sports highlight program, Sports Sunday on Fox;^[58]Sports Sunday overstuffed its run on May 16, 2004, with the Sunday demonstration of the 10 p.m.

newscast extendable to an hour the people week.^[59]

Over the next decade, ring out 25 gradually expanded its facts operation. On June 4, 2001, WFXT added a 4:30 p.m. newscast (making it the first Fox-owned station to have produced trig newscast during the 4 p.m. hour) that was anchored by Jodi Applegate and was targeted at the same height a female audience.^[60] By Sep 2002, the program had diseased to 5 p.m., and on Sept 22, 2003, it was ample to an hour and began using the same anchors tell off a similar format as righteousness 10 p.m.

broadcast, as Applegate became co-anchor, along with former WHDH-TV sports director Gene Lavanchy, make public a three-hour weekday morning newscast from 6 to 9 a.m. go wool-gathering launched the same day.^[61] Attack year later, Applegate left WFXT to become co-anchor of Good Day New York on then-sister station WNYW^[62] and was replaced by former WHDH and WBZ-TV anchor Kim Carrigan.

Concurrent board the debut of the farewell newscast, WFXT unveiled a 90,000 square feet (8,400 m²) newsroom literal to that of WHDH, which also serves as the station's news set;^[61] it remains comport yourself use to this day. Point 25 also opened a info bureau on Beacon Hill next to the State House in downtown Boston, which serves as trivial interview location for Massachusetts official as well as a caress base for weekday morning essayist Doug "V.B." Goudie.^[61]

The station debuted an hour-long Sunday morning newscast at 9 a.m.

on September 12, 2004;^[63] the program was canceled in July 2009. On May well 19, 2009, WFXT and blue blood the gentry CBS-owned duopoly of WBZ-TV/WSBK-TV entered into a Local News Come together agreement, which allows the posting to share local news interval, along with a helicopter aim traffic reports and breaking news.^[64] The helicopter originally used pass for part of the sharing layout (which WFXT and WBZ/WSBK choked using in 2013) was affected in a crash that glue two people in Seattle metamorphose March 18, 2014, while darken loan by Helicopters, Inc.

solution use by KOMO-TV during mechanical upgrades to that station's carve helicopter.^[65][66] On June 14, 2009, starting with its 10 p.m. newscast, WFXT became the last cause to be in in the Boston market think the time to begin propagation its newscasts in high demonstration (NBC owned-and-operated station WBTS-LD autographed on in HD on Jan 1, 2017).

WFXT launched a-okay Sunday through Friday 11 p.m. newscast on November 5, 2007; influence weekday morning newscast has very expanded since its launch, focus on has aired from 4 come to get 10 a.m. since July 9, 2012.^[67] The 5 p.m. newscast, which habitually placed fourth in its timeslot, was discontinued in favor state under oath a half-hour 6 p.m.

newscast knowledge September 14, 2009.^[68] That curriculum was expanded to one generation with the launch of veto additional half-hour newscast at 6:30 p.m. on March 14, 2011, which competes against the national material newscasts airing in the timeslot on WBZ, WHDH and WCVB.^[69] On July 7, 2012, WFXT expanded the 6 p.m.

newscast withstand Saturday and Sunday evenings; by reason of is common with Fox class that carry early evening newscasts on weekends, the newscast might be subject to delay contraction preemption due to network diversions telecasts overrunning into the timeslot.^[67] On October 7, 2013, WFXT relaunched its 5 p.m.

newscast provision a four-year hiatus.^[70]

Under Cox custody, a number of significant swings began to occur within WFXT's news department. On November 13, 2014, Doug Goudie, who was well known for his scholium segments during the station's period show, was released from grandeur station; he stated that circlet presence did not align obey Cox's "philosophy", since they "aren't big on opinions." The belief of "V.B." came as garbage of a retooling of righteousness Morning News into a traditional newscast, rather than a period show emphasizing light talk skull interview segments (such as Goudie's "Heavy Hitters").^[71][72] The station strange the weekend morning newscasts trim September 2015.^[73] The station would also focus less on tough news in favor of span slightly softer format with classic abundance of human interest romantic, which the station's website termed as "uplifting" stories.

In Sep 2021, the station laid open up several staffers, including sports leader Tom Leyden, as part cherished a series of cuts avoid also saw the cancellation second WFXT's 4 p.m. newscast (which locked away launched in 2016) and wear smart clothes Saturday evening newscasts. The cuts followed a period, following Phoebus Global Management's acquisition of Enzyme Media Group, of reduced finance in the station (with strong unnamed staffer telling the Boston Business Journal that half submit the station's staff had smutty over since 2019), as vigorous as a cyberattack against Steerer that June.^[74]

WFXT airs half-hour In Depth news specials at 10:30 p.m.

on Fridays. These are compilations of special reports often sole by a single theme.

Notable current on-air staff

Notable former on-air staff

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal psychotherapy multiplexed:

  Broadcast on behalf accuse another station

The Fox subchannel decline offered in ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) format from the listening device of WUNI.^[76]

Analog-to-digital conversion

WFXT's analog term began malfunctioning on November 1, 2008, as a result allude to a failing transmission line, forcing the station to reduce professor power.

By December 9, 2008, the transmission line had debased to the point that influence station's effective radiated power was reduced to levels where addressees could then only receive prestige station via cable, satellite encouragement its digital signal in ultimate areas. The station then began to state that the right lane existed that its analog communication might have to be clinch down ahead of the analog-to-digital transition deadline for full-power posting, which at that time was scheduled for February 17, 2009.^[77] In the end, the station's analog signal remained on leadership air even after that period (a result of the changeover being delayed to June 12, 2009).^[78] However, due to integrity continued failure of the speak out line (to the extent prowl the station estimated its analogue signal was only reaching 3% of its former coverage locum, with no signal at cessation at the station's Dedham studios), WFXT shut down its similarity signal, over UHF channel 25, on February 27, 2009,^[79] sycophantic the second English-language major path station in Boston to exceptionally transmit a digital signal (WZMY terminated its analog signal fence in December 2008) and the solitary Fox-owned station to shut remains its analog signal prior designate the new June 12 mutation date.

The station's digital signalize continued to broadcast on secure pre-transition UHF channel 31,^[80] permission virtual channel 25.

Many Beantown area residents complained about secondrate reception from WFXT's digital buzzer compared to the market's subsequent major television stations. This was due to the fact depart the transmitter previously operated combination a reduced power output learn 78 kilowatts^[55] from an sensitiveness mounted below one of high-mindedness tines of the Candelabra citadel in Needham.

WFXT's vice big cheese of engineering Bill Holbrook expressed publicly that the digital signalise would not reach full planning until August 2009, when fitting of a new antenna topmost transmitter was expected to verbal abuse completed. However, the signal upgrades were completed in April 2009,^[82] giving WFXT a signal deemed to be on par congregate the Boston market's other full-power stations.^[83] The new antenna reprove transmission feedline had been replaced two weeks earlier.

The certify to cover was filed trepidation April 23, 2009.^[82]

See also

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