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WAWS (-TV)[]

1981–1987[]

1981–1985[]

Waws classic logo

Originally signed on the air on February 15, 1981 as WAWS, an independent station on UHF channel 30 owned by the Malrite Communications Group.

1985–1987[]

WAWS 1986

1987–1990[]

WAWS 30 1980s
Designer:  Television by Design
Typography:  ITC Avant Garde
Univers Condensed
Launched:  1987

Malrite sold channel 30 to Clear Channel Communications in 1989 and was the first television station that Clear Channel ever owned.

1990–1996[]

WAWS 1996

In 1995, Clear Channel began managing channel 47—later to become WNFT—under a local marketing agreement; the two stations pooled programming and resources, while running the strongest syndicated programs on WAWS. Clear Channel purchased channel 47, which by that point had become UPN affiliate WTEV-TV, outright in 2000, creating the second television duopoly in the Jacksonville market.

1996–2001[]

WAWS 1997
WAWS 1996 ID

2001–2009[]

WAWS 2004

After WTEV took the CBS affiliation from longtime affiliate WJXT (VHF channel 4), which dropped the network after it demanded that Post-Newsweek Stations reverse compensate CBS to carry its programming and run the entire network schedule in pattern—only allowing pre-emptions for extended local breaking news and severe weather coverage,WAWS took over the local rights to the UPN affiliation on July 15, 2002, airing the network's evening programming on a secondary basis each weeknight from 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. following the station's prime time newscast, as well as its children's program block Disney's One Too, which it aired on Sunday through Friday mornings in addition to its existing carriage of Fox's competing children's block, FoxBox (later known as 4Kids TV), on Saturdays. On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its television stations to Newport Television, a newly formed television station group controlled by private equity firm Providence Equity Partners.

2009–2010[]

WAWS 2009

2010–2014[]

WAWS 2010

On July 19, 2012, Newport Television announced the sale of WAWS and WTEV-TV to the Cox Media Group, in a four-station deal that also involved the sister duopoly of Fox affiliate KOKI-TV and MyNetworkTV affiliate KMYT-TV in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

WFOX-TV[]

2014–present[]

WFOX 2014
Designer:  Renderon Broadcast Design (2017 graphics)
CMG Graphics Hub (2024 graphics)
Typography:  Proxima Nova
Helvetica Neue
Launched:  September 7, 2014

On August 26, 2014, Cox announced its intention to change WAWS' call letters to WFOX-TV, contingent on FCC approval, through a request made to the agency on July 30. In an email to The Florida Times-Union, general manager Jim Zerwekh stated that the change would better reflect the station's status as one of Fox's ten strongest affiliates. The WFOX callsigns were not used by the network's flagship station WNYW in New York City.

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