WJXF

WJXF is an ABC affiliate serving Jackson, Mississippi and the Jackson Metro area. Broadcasting on channel 7, WJXF is owned and operated by RainbowDash72. WJXF signed on in 1970 and became an ABC affiliate. The station was launched by the American Public Life Insurance Company, an insurer which is still in business today but is now an affiliate of American Fidelity Assurance. American Public Life sold the station to Clay Communications in 1979. That company then sold it to Price Communications in 1987. Price Communications sold it to the newly founded Northstar Television Group in 1989. Northstar Television was bought out by Argyle Television Holdings II, a company which was formed in late 1994 by a group of managers and executives who left the first incarnation of Argyle Television (the former Times-Mirror Broadcasting) after that company sold all of its stations to New World Communications, in January 1995. Before 1971, the station along with fellow ABC affiliate WLLK (also on channel 7) in Dothan, Alabama served as the de facto ABC affiliates for Montgomery, Alabama until then-CBS affiliate WVTG (now an NBC affiliate) signed on the air and carried a secondary affiliation with ABC. 
In August 1997, Argyle merged with the Hearst Corporation's broadcasting unit to form what was then known as Hearst-Argyle Television (now Hearst Television after the Hearst Corporation became sole owner of the group in mid-2009). In 2012, Island Television shocked the market when they purchased the station from Hearst Television. On Jan. 30, 2016, it was announced that Island Television, as well as Higgins Broadcasting, and Oakhurst Broadcasting, were merging into Adelphia Communications, and Adelphia took over as owners of the station. Following the merger of Oakhurst Broadcasting, Higgins Broadcasting, and Island Television into Adelphia Communications and Adelphia absorbing the remaining stations, Adelphia decided to shift focus on the stations that are in the top 50 DMA market. The remaining stations spun off to their own ownership group named Young Broadcasting, taking it's name from the former company before they merged in Media General. On March 28, 2017, Young Broadcasting sold the station to RainbowDash72.
Category:Channel 7
Category:Jackson, Mississippi
Category:Mississippi
Category:ABC network affiliates
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1970