WFXR

WFXR-TV (physical 17, display channel 27) is the Fox-affiliated station for the Roanoke/Lynchburg television market licensed to Roanoke, VA. It is owned by Nexstar Broadcast Group and signed on for the first time on March 10, 1986 as independent station WVFT-TV. It switched to it's current WFXR-TV callsign in 1993 and picked up the Fox affiliation (simulcasting with then-WJPR). The station transmits from Poor Mountain with an effective radiated power of 695,000 watts. It's transmitter is 594 meters above average terrain (1,172 meters above mean sea level, or 34 meters above ground level). The station is also relayed on sister station WWCW's second digital subcannel (21.2), from Thaxton mountain with an effective radiated power of 916,000 watts from a transmitter 500.3 meters above average terrain (838.7 meters above mean sea level, or 264.8 meters above ground level).

On January 27th, 2016, it was announced that Media General would be acquired by Nexstar Media Group. Since Nexstar already owns WFXR and WWCW, Nexstar will be required to sell WFXR, WWCW, or WSLS once the acquisition is complete.

Subchannels
On October 2nd, WFXR and WWCW added Bounce TV on it's 3rd subchannel. Interestingly, It shows the station ID for KBTV-DT2 in Port Arthur, Texas which also carries Bounce TV. It is owned by Deerfield Media. WWCW later dropped Bounce TV (leaving it exclusive to WFXR-DT3) and replaced it with Laff. WFXR later added Escape to it's fourth subchannel.

News operation
WFXR broadcasts (as of October 3, 2015) 27 hours of local news per week, coincidentally matching it's channel number (with 25 hours total Monday-Friday and 2 housr total Saturday and Sunday). WSLS produced these newscasts for 19 years, from 1996-2015. On weekdays, newscasts can be seen from 5:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m., and at 10:00 p.m. for 1 hour. On weekends, newscasts are only seen at 10:00 p.m. for 1 hour. WFXR has terminated it's news partnership with WSLS and began it's own in-house news operation on October 1st, 2015. It's newscasts are seen in high definition.

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