The TVX Broadcast Group was an
American
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media company that owned a group of
UHF
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television stations during the 1980s. Originally known as the Television Corp. of Virginia, the company was headquartered in
Norfolk, Virginia
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, and was founded by a group led by television executive Timothy McDonald and local media personality-turned radio executive Gene Loving. TVX began with a start-up television station,
WTVZ
WTVZ-TV (channel 33) is a television station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, United States, serving the Hampton Roads area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station maintains studios on Clearfield Avenue in Vi ...
, in 1979.
Despite the group's name, TVX Broadcast Group was not connected to, nor ever held any interest in
WTVX
WTVX (channel 34) is a television station licensed to Fort Pierce, Florida, United States, serving the West Palm Beach area as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside CBS affiliate WPEC (channel 12) and two lo ...
in
Fort Pierce, Florida
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and
KTVX
KTVX (channel 4) is a television station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Ogden-licensed CW owned-and-operated station KUCW (channel 30). Both stations share studios o ...
in
Salt Lake City
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, Utah.
History
Origins
In the late 1970s, the
Hampton Roads area (as the region around Norfolk is known) was unique in that it was one of the smallest markets to have four commercial television stations:
NBC
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affiliate
WAVY-TV
WAVY-TV (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Portsmouth, Virginia, United States, serving the Hampton Roads area as an affiliate of NBC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Virginia Beach–licensed Fox affiliate WVBT (chann ...
,
CBS
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station
WTAR-TV,
ABC
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affiliate
WVEC-TV
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, and
independent station
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WYAH-TV. The latter station, however, was owned by the
Portsmouth
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Portsmouth is the most dens ...
-based evangelist
Pat Robertson
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's
Christian Broadcasting Network
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, and ran a fairly conservative program schedule. The Loving/McDonald group secured a construction permit for Norfolk's vacant channel 33 in May 1978 and signed it a year later. WTVZ experienced early success, mostly through airing a moderate amount of programming that had been considered too objectionable for WYAH-TV.
Based on the early success of WTVZ, TVX decided to expand outside of Hampton Roads. TVX's second station was
WRLH-TV
WRLH-TV (channel 35) is a television station in Richmond, Virginia, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, it has studios on Westmoreland Street in the North Side area of Richmond, and its transmitte ...
in
Richmond
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* Richmond, California, ...
, in February 1982. Ironically, CBN was going to build a station in the same area but donated it to a non-commercial religious group. As a result, WRLH was the only independent station in Richmond for its first few years of operation.
Expansion
TVX's first two acquisitions were in
North Carolina
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: WJTM-TV (later WNRW and now
WXLV-TV
WXLV-TV (channel 45) is a television station licensed to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Piedmont Triad region. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Greensboro-licensed MyNetworkTV ...
) in
Winston-Salem
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in 1980, and
WLFL
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in
Raleigh
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in 1985.
WNOL-TV
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in
followed in 1985, and the construction permit for KMJD-TV in
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
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was bought by TVX and signed on as KJTM-TV (now
KASN
KASN (channel 38) is a television station licensed to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States, serving the Little Rock area as a ''de facto'' owned-and-operated station of The CW. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting alongside Fox affiliate KLRT-T ...
) in June 1986.
Along with buying stations, TVX was building them as well. The company launched WMKW-TV (now
WLMT
WLMT (channel 30) is a television station in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with The CW and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside American Broadcasting Company, ABC affiliate WATN-TV (channel 24). Both stations share stu ...
) in
Memphis
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* Memphis, Tennessee, a major American city
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* Memp ...
in April 1983, followed by WCAY-TV (now
WUXP-TV
WUXP-TV (channel 30) is a television station in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside dual Fox/ CW affiliate WZTV (channel 17); it is also sister to Dabl affiliate W ...
) in
Nashville
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in February 1984. KRRT (now
KMYS
KMYS (channel 35) is a television station licensed to Kerrville, Texas, United States, serving the San Antonio area as an affiliate of the digital multicast network Dabl. It is owned by Deerfield Media, which maintains joint sales and shared se ...
) in
Kerrville, Texas
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was signed on in November 1985 as the
San Antonio
("Cradle of Freedom")
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market's first English-language independent station. All of these stations used the branding "Prime All The Time." TVX's last station, WNYB-TV (now
WNYO-TV
WNYO-TV (channel 49) is a television station in Buffalo, New York, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Fox affiliate WUTV (channel 29). Both stations share studios on Hertel Avenue near ...
) in
Buffalo, was sold just before its September 1987 sign-on to Niagara Frontier Hockey, the owners of the Buffalo Sabres.
TVX sold WRLH-TV to the
Baltimore
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-based A.S. Abell Company, then-publisher of the ''
Baltimore Sun
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Founded in 1837, it is currently owned by Tr ...
'', in 1985. In mid-1986, the new
Fox Broadcasting Company
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approached TVX with an affiliation deal for the company's New Orleans station. TVX agreed, but on the condition that Fox also took on TVX's other properties as affiliates. Fox added one stipulation: if one of TVX's underperforming stations was sold, Fox could then pull its affiliation from that station.
Once the group deal for WLFL was closed, TVX had to sell WNRW-TV in Winston-Salem, due to a large signal overlap with the larger WLFL, and as a result, TVX could not keep both stations (FCC rules did not allow common-grade signal overlap, and could not gave them a waiver until 2000). TVX opted to keep the larger WLFL and sell WNRW to
Act III Broadcasting
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, becoming the first acquisition.
Integrations
In February 1987, TVX acquired five stations from the
Taft Broadcasting Company
The Taft Broadcasting Company (also known as Taft Television and Radio Company, Incorporated) was an American media conglomerate based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The company was rooted in the family of William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the Un ...
, which was in the middle of a corporate restructuring. The stations purchased were Fox affiliates
WTAF-TV in
Philadelphia
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and
WCIX
WCIX (channel 49) is a television station licensed to Springfield, Illinois, United States, serving the Central Illinois region as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Champaign-licensed CBS affiliate WCIA (c ...
in
Miami
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; and independent stations
WDCA-TV
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in
Washington, D.C.
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KTXA
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in
Fort Worth, Texas
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, and
KTXH
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in
Houston
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. The purchase of the Taft stations, while transforming TVX's profile from a small company into a large-market broadcaster, had a major negative impact: TVX acquired massive debt as well, resulting in the company selling many of their medium- and small-market outlets.
Between late 1987 and the end of 1989, TVX found new owners for eight stations, though most were to satisfy
Federal Communications Commission
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requirements on group ownership. Notable sales were those of WNOL-TV, to a group led by musician
Quincy Jones
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; of WTVZ, TVX's first station, to Sullivan Broadcasting; of the two
Tennessee
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stations (
WCAY-TV and
WMKW-TV), which were sold to MT Communications, who also bought out
WETO in the Tri-Cities region, and of WCIX, whose status as the company's only
VHF outlet played a factor in TVX's reluctant sale of the station to
CBS
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in 1988. Fox, on the other hand, exercised the clause in the 1986 group affiliation contract and pulled its programming from several former TVX stations as soon as the sales were finalized. Also during this period, company co-founder Tim McDonald departed the firm after negotiating a financial restructuring with
Salomon Brothers
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to help resolve the company's debt issues. Salomon Brothers would eventually become TVX's major shareholder.
Despite having stripped itself down to a six-station group, made up mostly of profitable, highly-performing outlets in large markets, the sales of the smaller stations did not fully reduce TVX's debt load. In 1989, Salomon Brothers sold a minority share (about 22 percent) of TVX to
Paramount Pictures
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. In 1991 Paramount acquired the rest of TVX and bought the group under its corporate umbrella, rechristening the company as the
Paramount Stations Group
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History
Paramount Communications, the then-parent company of Par ...
. In 1994, the
original iteration of Viacom acquired the stations as part of its purchase of Paramount Pictures.
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Former TVX-owned stations
Notes:
* ''Two boldface asterisks appearing following a station's call letters (**) indicate a station that was built and signed on by TVX'';
* ''Three boldface asterisks (***) indicate a station built by TVX but sold to another entity before it signed on.''
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, Pine Bluff - Little Rock, AR
, KJTM **
, 38 (39)
, 1986–1989
, The CW
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affiliate, KASN
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, owned by Mission Broadcasting
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, Washington, D.C.
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, WDCA
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, 20 (35)
, 1987–1991
, MyNetworkTV
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affiliate owned by Fox Television Stations
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, Miami - Fort Lauderdale
, WCIX
, 6 ( 4 (22))
, 1987–1989
, CBS
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owned-and-operated (O&O), WFOR-TV
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,
, WNOL-TV
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, 38 (15)
, 1985–1988
, The CW affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
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, Buffalo
, WNYB-TV **
, 49 (49)
, ***
, MyNetworkTV affiliate, WNYO-TV
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, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
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, Raleigh - Durham - Fayetteville
, WLFL
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, 22 (27)
, 1985–1991
, The CW affiliate owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
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, Winston-Salem - Greensboro - High Point
, WNRW
, 45 (29)
, 1980–1987
, ABC
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affiliate, WXLV-TV
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, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
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, Philadelphia
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, WTXF-TV
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, 29 (42)
, 1987–1991
, Fox
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owned-and-operated ( O&O)
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, Memphis
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* Memphis, Tennessee, a major American city
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* Memphis, Indiana
* Memp ...
, WMKW-TV **
, 30 (31)
, 1983–1989
, The CW affiliate, WLMT
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, owned by Tegna Inc.
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, Nashville
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, WCAY-TV **
, 30 (21)
, 1984–1988
, MyNetworkTV affiliate, WUXP-TV
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, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
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, Fort Worth - Dallas
, KTXA
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, 21 (29)
, 1987–1991
, Independent
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station owned by Paramount Global
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, Houston
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, KTXH
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, 20 (19)
, 1987–1991
, MyNetworkTV affiliate owned by Fox Television Stations
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, Kerrville - San Antonio, TX
, KRRT **
, 35 (32)
, 1985–1991
, Dabl
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affiliate, KMYS
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, owned by Deerfield Media
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, Norfolk - Portsmouth
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, WTVZ-TV
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**
, 33 (33)
, 1979–1989
, MyNetworkTV affiliate owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
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, Richmond
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, WRLH-TV
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**
, 35 (26)
, 1982–1985
, Fox affiliate owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
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See also
* Westinghouse Broadcasting
The Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, was the broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. It owned several radio and television stations across the United States and distributed television shows for syndicat ...
* ABC Owned Television Stations
ABC Owned Television Stations is a division of Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution operated by Disney Networks Group that oversees the owned-and-operated stations of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), a division of The Walt Disney C ...
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Defunct companies based in Virginia
Television stations in Virginia
Mass media companies established in 1979
Mass media companies disestablished in 1991
1979 establishments in Virginia
1991 disestablishments in Virginia