WFXI
Encyclopedia
WFXI is the Fox-affiliated television station
for Eastern North Carolina
's Inner Banks
licensed to Morehead City
. It broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter in unincorporated
Davis, North Carolina
along the South River
's East Fork. The station can also be seen on Charter
channel 2, Time Warner Cable
channel 8, and Suddenlink
channel 9. There is a high definition feed offered on Suddenlink and Charter digital channel 702 as well as Time Warner
Cable digital channel 1125. WFXI-TV 8 Fox Eastern Carolina Office is in 5441 Highway 70 East in Morehead City and on WYDO-TV 14 Fox is In Red Bank Rd. in Greenville.
Owned by Esteem Broadcasting of North Carolina
, the station is operated through a shared services
agreement (SSA) by the Bonten Media Group as sister to ABC
affiliate WCTI-TV
. The two outlets share studios on Glenburnie Drive in New Bern
. Syndicated
programming on WFXI includes Two and a Half Men
, How I Met Your Mother
, Family Guy
, and Everybody Loves Raymond
among others. WYDO operates as a full-time satellite of WFXI. Licensed to Greenville
, this station broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 47 from a transmitter in Trenton
along NC 41
. On satellite providers, WFXI can be seen on Dish Network
while DirecTV
offers WYDO.
and had to conform its analog signal on VHF channel 8 to protect ABC affiliate WRIC-TV
in Richmond, Virginia
. As a result, it only reaches New Bern and Jacksonville
in the southeastern portions of the market
. As a condition of joining Fox, it had to sign-on a full-time satellite (WYDO) to cover the northwestern parts of its coverage area. This station debuted in the mid-1990s, airing an analog signal on UHF channel 14 from a transmitter southeast of Ayden
. Both WFXI and WYDO were Fox affiliates from sign-on.
On April 18, 2006, it was announced new second digital subchannel
s of WFXI and WYDO would be created to affiliate with a new sister network called MyNetworkTV
which would be operated by News Corporation
and its syndication division Twentieth Television. However, network officials later changed their mind, and on August 11, moved the affiliation to Ion Television owned-and-operated affiliate WEPX-TV and its full-time satellite WPXU-TV
. WFXI shared its call letters with a Class A
repeater
of Fox affiliate WYFX-LP
in Youngstown, Ohio
. Both stations were owned by Piedmont Television
until 2007 but were otherwise unrelated.
On November 6, 2007, it was announced the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) approved the sale of certain WFXI/WYDO assets from Piedmont Television to the Bonten Media Group (owner of WCTI). As part of the deal, WFXI moved from its longtime home on Arendell Street/U.S. 70 in Morehead City to WCTI's facility in New Bern. In addition, WYDO closed its sales office on Old Tar Road in Winterville
. In January 2008 after Bonten took over operation of the stations, the two were co-branded together as "Fox Eastern Carolina" and a new logo was released. It had previously been known on-air as "Fox 8/Fox 14" for many years.
The web address remained in that branding until August 2010 when it was integrated within WCTI's website. WFXI/WYDO made local headlines with difficulties in transmitting Super Bowl XLII
on February 3, 2008. The outage left several thousand viewers unable to watch. A high definition feed of WYDO was launched on DirecTV on January 7, 2009 while Dish Network did the same for WFXI at the end of February. At midnight on June 13, both stations went all digital as part of the DTV transition.
Originally, the station aired a prime time newscast produced by CBS
affiliate WNCT-TV
through a news share agreement. Known as Fox News at 10, this could be seen every night for thirty minutes from WNCT's facility on South Evans Street in Greenville. The outsourcing arrangement was terminated in December 2007 after WCTI became a sister station to WFXI/WYDO through their management by Bonten. Initially in January 2008, WCTI began offering a repeat of its nightly 6 o'clock newscast at 10 on this station. A new nightly prime time broadcast produced by WCTI was added on January 28. Now known as Fox Eastern Carolina News at 10, the show was expanded to an hour on weeknights while introducing an updated graphics package and news music theme.
At the same time, WNCT's prime time newscast at 10 was moved to its second
digital subchannel
that has CW affiliation. On June 27, 2010, WCTI upgraded local news to high definition becoming the first outlet in the area to do so (broadcasts on WFXI/WYDO were included in the change). In addition to its main studios, WCTI/WFXI/WYDO operate bureaus in Jacksonville (on Johnson Boulevard) and Winterville (on Old Tar Road covering Greenville and previous location of WYDO's sales office). During weather forecast segments, the station features a live NOAA National Weather Service
Doppler
weather radar
based at the Local Forecast Office on Roberts Road in Newport
.
Reporters
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
for Eastern North Carolina
Eastern North Carolina
Eastern North Carolina is the region encompassing the eastern tier of North Carolina. It is known geographically as the state's Coastal Plain region. Primary subregions of Eastern North Carolina include the Fayetteville Metropolitan Area, the Lower Cape Fear , the Sandhills, the Inner Banks and...
's Inner Banks
Inner Banks
The Inner Banks is a term used by some to describe the inland coastal region of eastern North Carolina, an area on the East Coast of the United States that is 22,227 square-miles by its broadest definition...
licensed to Morehead City
Morehead City, North Carolina
Morehead City is a port city in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 8,661 at the 2010 census. Morehead City celebrated the 150th anniversary of its founding on May 5, 2007...
. It broadcasts a high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter in unincorporated
Unincorporated area
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...
Davis, North Carolina
Carteret County, North Carolina
Carteret County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of 2010, the population was 66,469. Its county seat is Beaufort. Most of the county is part of the Crystal Coast....
along the South River
South River (Neuse River estuary)
The South River is a tidal estuary, approximately 8 mi long long in Carteret County, North Carolina in the United States.It flows NNE and empties into the estuary of the Neuse River near its entrance into Pamlico Sound. The town of South River sits on western side near its mouth.-See...
's East Fork. The station can also be seen on Charter
Charter Communications
Charter Communications is an American company providing cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 4.7 million customers in 25 states. By revenues, it is the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, behind Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications...
channel 2, Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...
channel 8, and Suddenlink
Suddenlink Communications
Suddenlink Communications, formerly Cebridge Connections, is a top-10 cable broadband services provider in the United States with approximately 1.4 million subscribers. Suddenlink operates in 18 states in primarily medium-sized communities. With its corporate headquarters in St. Louis, MO,...
channel 9. There is a high definition feed offered on Suddenlink and Charter digital channel 702 as well as Time Warner
Time Warner
Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...
Cable digital channel 1125. WFXI-TV 8 Fox Eastern Carolina Office is in 5441 Highway 70 East in Morehead City and on WYDO-TV 14 Fox is In Red Bank Rd. in Greenville.
Owned by Esteem Broadcasting of North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
, the station is operated through a shared services
Shared services
Shared services refers to the provision of a service by one part of an organization or group where that service had previously been found in more than one part of the organization or group. Thus the funding and resourcing of the service is shared and the providing department effectively becomes an...
agreement (SSA) by the Bonten Media Group as sister to ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
affiliate WCTI-TV
WCTI-TV
WCTI-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Inner Banks area of Eastern North Carolina that is licensed to New Bern. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 12 from a transmitter in Trenton along NC 58...
. The two outlets share studios on Glenburnie Drive in New Bern
New Bern, North Carolina
New Bern is a city in Craven County, North Carolina with a population of 29,524 as of the 2010 census.. It is located at the confluence of the Trent and the Neuse rivers...
. Syndicated
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
programming on WFXI includes Two and a Half Men
Two and a Half Men
Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 22, 2003. Starring Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, and Angus T. Jones, the show was originally about a hedonistic jingle writer, Charlie Harper; his uptight brother, Alan; and Alan's growing son, Jake...
, How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting...
, Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian...
, and Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005. Many of the situations from the show are based on the real-life experiences of lead actor Ray Romano, creator/producer Phil Rosenthal and the show's writing staff...
among others. WYDO operates as a full-time satellite of WFXI. Licensed to Greenville
Greenville, North Carolina
Greenville is the county seat of Pitt County and principal city of the Greenville, North Carolina metropolitan area. Greenville is the health, entertainment, and educational hub of North Carolina's Tidewater and Coastal Plain and in 2008 was listed as the Tenth Largest City in North Carolina...
, this station broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 47 from a transmitter in Trenton
Trenton, North Carolina
Trenton is a town in Jones County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 201 in 2007. It is the county seat of Jones County.It is the 95th smallest by population in North Carolina...
along NC 41
North Carolina Highway 41
North Carolina Highway 41 is a state highway in the eastern part of North Carolina, U.S.A. The highway travels in an east–west orientation between Trenton and Lumberton, and in a north–south orientation between Lumberton and the South Carolina border, where it continues as S.C. 41....
. On satellite providers, WFXI can be seen on Dish Network
Dish Network
Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...
while DirecTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
offers WYDO.
History
The station signed-on November 1, 19891989 in television
For the American TV schedule, see: 1989–90 United States network television schedule.The year 1989 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1989.-Events:-Debuts:-1950s:...
and had to conform its analog signal on VHF channel 8 to protect ABC affiliate WRIC-TV
WRIC-TV
WRIC-TV, virtual channel 8 , is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Richmond, Virginia market. It is owned by Young Broadcasting. The station is licensed to nearby Petersburg, while its studios are just off the Powhite Parkway extension in the Arboretum office park in western...
in Richmond, Virginia
Richmond, Virginia
Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...
. As a result, it only reaches New Bern and Jacksonville
Jacksonville, North Carolina
Jacksonville, North Carolina, is a city in Onslow County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 United States census, the population stood at 70,145, which makes Jacksonville the 14th largest city in North Carolina...
in the southeastern portions of the market
Media market
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area , or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content...
. As a condition of joining Fox, it had to sign-on a full-time satellite (WYDO) to cover the northwestern parts of its coverage area. This station debuted in the mid-1990s, airing an analog signal on UHF channel 14 from a transmitter southeast of Ayden
Ayden, North Carolina
Ayden is a town in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 4,622 at the 2000 census and the 2007 estimated population was 5,005...
. Both WFXI and WYDO were Fox affiliates from sign-on.
On April 18, 2006, it was announced new second digital subchannel
Digital subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same digital radio or digital television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual...
s of WFXI and WYDO would be created to affiliate with a new sister network called MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
which would be operated by News Corporation
News Corporation
News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...
and its syndication division Twentieth Television. However, network officials later changed their mind, and on August 11, moved the affiliation to Ion Television owned-and-operated affiliate WEPX-TV and its full-time satellite WPXU-TV
WPXU-TV
WPXU-TV is one of two Ion Television affiliates for the Greenville/Jacksonville/New Bern/Washington, North Carolina television market. It is licensed to Jacksonville...
. WFXI shared its call letters with a Class A
Class A television service
The class A television service is a system for regulating some low-power television stations in the United States. Class A stations are denoted by the broadcast callsign suffix "-CA" or "-CD" , although very many analog -CA stations have a digital companion channel that was assigned the -LD...
repeater
Broadcast relay station
A broadcast relay station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator , rebroadcaster , or repeater is a broadcast transmitter which relays, repeats, or reflects the signal of another radio station or television station, usually to an area not covered by the signal of the originating station...
of Fox affiliate WYFX-LP
WYFX-LP
WYFX-LD is the Fox-affiliated television station for the Mahoning Valley of Northeastern Ohio, licensed to Youngstown. It broadcasts a low-powered digital signal UHF channel 19 from a transmitter on Sunset Boulevard in Boardman Township. Owned by New Vision Television, the station is sister to CBS...
in Youngstown, Ohio
Youngstown, Ohio
Youngstown is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Mahoning County; it also extends into Trumbull County. The municipality is situated on the Mahoning River, approximately southeast of Cleveland and northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
. Both stations were owned by Piedmont Television
Piedmont Television
Piedmont Television was a broadcasting company in the United States that owned television stations in smaller markets. The company was based in Charlotte, North Carolina....
until 2007 but were otherwise unrelated.
On November 6, 2007, it was announced the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
(FCC) approved the sale of certain WFXI/WYDO assets from Piedmont Television to the Bonten Media Group (owner of WCTI). As part of the deal, WFXI moved from its longtime home on Arendell Street/U.S. 70 in Morehead City to WCTI's facility in New Bern. In addition, WYDO closed its sales office on Old Tar Road in Winterville
Winterville, North Carolina
Winterville is a town in Pitt County, North Carolina. The population was 4,791 at the 2000 census. In 2008, the estimated population is 8,586. The town is a part of the Greenville Metropolitan Area.-Geography:...
. In January 2008 after Bonten took over operation of the stations, the two were co-branded together as "Fox Eastern Carolina" and a new logo was released. It had previously been known on-air as "Fox 8/Fox 14" for many years.
The web address remained in that branding until August 2010 when it was integrated within WCTI's website. WFXI/WYDO made local headlines with difficulties in transmitting Super Bowl XLII
Super Bowl XLII
Super Bowl XLII was an American football game on February 3, 2008 that featured the National Football Conference champion New York Giants and the American Football Conference champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League champion for the 2007 season...
on February 3, 2008. The outage left several thousand viewers unable to watch. A high definition feed of WYDO was launched on DirecTV on January 7, 2009 while Dish Network did the same for WFXI at the end of February. At midnight on June 13, both stations went all digital as part of the DTV transition.
Newscasts
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
affiliate WNCT-TV
WNCT-TV
WNCT-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for Eastern North Carolina's Inner Banks licensed to Greenville. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 10 from a transmitter in Grifton along NC 118. The station can also be seen on Charter channel 6 as well as Time Warner...
through a news share agreement. Known as Fox News at 10, this could be seen every night for thirty minutes from WNCT's facility on South Evans Street in Greenville. The outsourcing arrangement was terminated in December 2007 after WCTI became a sister station to WFXI/WYDO through their management by Bonten. Initially in January 2008, WCTI began offering a repeat of its nightly 6 o'clock newscast at 10 on this station. A new nightly prime time broadcast produced by WCTI was added on January 28. Now known as Fox Eastern Carolina News at 10, the show was expanded to an hour on weeknights while introducing an updated graphics package and news music theme.
At the same time, WNCT's prime time newscast at 10 was moved to its second
WNCT-DT2
WNCT-DT2 is the CW-affiliated television station for Eastern North Carolina's Inner Banks. The station is part of The CW Plus, a special CW feed that broadcasts on cable and/or over-the-air on a digital signal. It is a second digital subchannel of CBS affiliate WNCT-TV owned by Media General...
digital subchannel
Digital subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same digital radio or digital television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual...
that has CW affiliation. On June 27, 2010, WCTI upgraded local news to high definition becoming the first outlet in the area to do so (broadcasts on WFXI/WYDO were included in the change). In addition to its main studios, WCTI/WFXI/WYDO operate bureaus in Jacksonville (on Johnson Boulevard) and Winterville (on Old Tar Road covering Greenville and previous location of WYDO's sales office). During weather forecast segments, the station features a live NOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service
The National Weather Service , once known as the Weather Bureau, is one of the six scientific agencies that make up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States government...
Doppler
Pulse-doppler radar
Pulse-Doppler is a 4D radar system capable of detecting both target 3D location as well as measuring radial velocity . It uses the Doppler effect to avoid overloading computers and operators as well as to reduce power consumption...
weather radar
Weather radar
Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, estimate its type . Modern weather radars are mostly pulse-Doppler radars, capable of detecting the motion of rain droplets in addition to the...
based at the Local Forecast Office on Roberts Road in Newport
Newport, North Carolina
Newport is a town in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 3,349 at the 2000 census.-History:Newport was officially chartered in 1866. Although the crossroads community on the Newport River was known by that name decades earlier, the area was also known as Bell's Corner...
.
Fox TV History
- Fox 8 WFXI-TV (1991-1995)
- Fox 8/Fox 14 (1995-2007)
- Fox Eastern Carolina-WFXI/WYDO (2007-present)
News team
Anchors- Jaime McCutcheon - weeknight news
- Brian North - weeknight news and Sports DirectorSports DirectorA sports director is an individual at a television or radio station who is in charge of the sports department. In local news, the sports director is typically the station's primary sportscaster, and often anchors the primetime newscasts on weekdays. They are in charge of sports programming and...
- Jon Erickson - weekend news and reporter
- Skip Waters - Chief Meteorologist seen weeknights
- Tori Shaw - weekend meteorologist and news reporter
- Derek Bayne - weekend sports and sports reporter
Reporters
- Shumuriel Ratliff
- Dominic Brown
- Megan Cassell
- Adam Yosim
- Katie Jeffries
- Mike Valerio
- Amanda Brannon
- Jasmine Spencer