WFXS-TV

WFXS-TV, UHF channel 15, (channel 34), is a television station licensed to Bluefield, Minnesota, also serving Rockville, Minnesota, United States. It serves as an affiliate of the Fox network. The station is owned by Marble Broadcasting Group and maintains studio facilities on Pompano Avenue in Bluefield, and WFXS-TV’s transmitter is located in southeast of the city off of Interstate 43.
Built as the market’s first Independent station in early 1976, the station has been affiliated with the Fox network since the network started later in March 23, 1990 that year. WFXS-TV has currently aired local newscasts in the Bluefield-Rockville market area since 1992, first in partnership with an another local station, WKBY-TV, the CBS station in Bluefield, and since March 3, 1996, WFXS-TV has aired independent local news on an independent basis. On cable, WFXS-TV is available on Charter Spectrum channel 15, and it is available on Satellite providers Dish Network and DirecTV channels 34 in Standard Definition (SD), and in High Defintion (HD) channel 1034.
On December 23, 1982, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) granted a construction permit to Kevin Beltran, an attorney, to build a channel 34 television station at Bluefield. However, it took more than three years to get the station built. Officials with the Minnesota Airport Commission greeted over the proximity of the proposed Rockwright County mast to several aviation facilities, and while the zoning board overruled objections from the aviation community. The FCC refused to approve the site.
Beltran sold WFXS-TV in March 2, 1992 to Marble Broadcasting Group, a company owned by co-CEO Kate A. Zimmerman; it was her first and current TV station property. It took Zimmerman 12 months to find a station to buy and assemble financing to make the deal work. Marble Broadcasting Group moved the station from its original Rockville base on Sunnyvale Avenue to the Bluefield Fox affiliate studio Plaza after signing a lease for the property in 1994. WFXS-TV is currently a sister station to Redwood, Texas-licensed KAZY-TV.
On March 3, 1996, WFXS-TV started to air their 10pm newscast format firstly produced by KAZY-TV, starting a current relationship as sister stations. WFXS-TV supplied all of the talent except co-anchor Mary Bartlett, an employee of WFXS-TV. Within two years, the newscasts, which WFXS-TV paid WNBF, the Bluefield-licensed NBC affiliate on channel 26, to produce and to make money. On March 12, 2005, WFXS-TV began airing an hour of news on Weekday mornings at 7am and 8am, also produced by KAZY-TV.
Under its Marble Broadcasting Group ownership management, even though KAZY-TV is still the current sister station to WFXS-TV, WFXS-TV ended the KAZY-TV arrangement and began to originate its own newscasts, including an expanded morning show (5-9am) and 6:30pm newscast on February 4, 2012, with the in-house news department launching its own newscast at 10pm on February 4, 2012.
On June 6, 2022, TBD, Sinclair’s television network, is currently added to WFXS-TV’s second subchannel, alongside with Dabl on 34.3, and MeTV on 34.4.
Subchannels of WFXS-TV
Channel	Video	Aspect	Short name	Programming
34.1 	720p 	16:9 	WFXS-DT 	Main WFXS-TV programming / Fox
34.2 	480i 	16:9 	TBD 	TBD
34.3 	480i 	16:9 	Dabl 	Dabl
34.4 	480i 	16:9 	MeTV 	MeTV
WFXS-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 15, June 13, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from Analog to Digital broadcasts under the federal mandate. The station’s digital signal moved from its pre-transition VHF channel 6 to channel 33.
The Television station repack of WFXS-TV moved its channel allocation from digital channel 33 to 16 at 10:00am on May 5, 2018, and remains on virtual channel 34.
Syndicated programs on WFXS-TV include Judge Mathis, Live with Kelly and Ryan, The Big Bang Theory, The Jennifer Hudson Show, and Hot Bench. Since February 4, 2012, WFXS-TV has currently produced their own newscast programming on a independent basis. Alongside with Redwood-licensed quadropoly KAZY-TV, WXZH, WMYX, and WWXA, WFXS-TV shares station relationships as a sister station. Even though between KAZY-TV, and WFXS-TV, WFXS-TV in Bluefield, Minnesota is in a far distance from Redwood, Texas.
Schedule of WFXS-TV 34.1
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri 	Saturday / Sunday
6:00am FOX 34 Good Day Bluefield at 6am 	6:00am Xploration Station: Awesome Planet
7:00am FOX 34 Good Day Bluefield at 7am 	6:30am Xploration Station: Outer Space
9:00am FOX 34 Good Day Bluefield at 9am 	7:00am FOX 34 Good Day Bluefield Saturday
10:00am Live with Kelly and Ryan 	9:00am Big Noon Kickoff
11:00am The Jennifer Hudson Show 	11:00am NCAA Football
12:00pm FOX 34 News at Noon 	2:30pm NCAA Football
12:30pm The Big Bang Theory 	6:00pm MLB Baseball on FOX
1:00pm Judge Mathis 	7:00pm MLB Baseball on FOX
2:00pm The People’s Court 	9:00pm MLB Baseball on FOX
3:00pm Judge Judy 	10:00pm FOX 34 News at 10pm
3:30pm Judge Judy 	11:00pm PBC Countdown
4:00pm Hot Bench 	11:30pm SSN Sports
4:30pm Hot Bench 	12:00am FOX 34 Movie
5:00pm FOX 34 News at 5pm 	2:00am Paid Programming
5:30pm FOX 34 News at 5:30pm 	2:30am Paid Programming
6:00pm FOX 34 News at 6pm 	3:00am Paid Programming
6:30pm Extra 	3:30am Paid Programming
7:00pm You Bet Your Life with Jay Leno 	4:00am Paid Programming
7:30pm You Bet Your Life with Jay Leno 	4:30am Paid Programming
8:00pm FOX Network Primetime 	5:00am Paid Programming
9:00pm FOX Network Primetime 	5:30am MyDestination.TV
10:00pm FOX 34 News at 10pm 	6:00am FOX 34 Good Day Bluefield Sunday
10:30pm FOX 34 News at 10:30pm 	7:30am Living 808 Minnesota
11:00pm TMZ 	8:00am FOX News Sunday
11:30pm Modern Family 	9:00am Joel Osteen Ministries
12:00am FOX 34 News at 10pm Repeat 	9:30am Pastor Robert Morris Ministries
1:00am TMZ 	10:00am NFL Kickoff
1:30am Extra 	11:00am FOX NFL Sunday
2:00am Paid Programming 	12:00pm NFL Football
2:30am Paid Programming 	3:00pm NFL Post-game Show
3:00am Paid Programming 	3:30pm WWE’s Top Ten Most Extreme Moments
3:30am Paid Programming 	4:30pm PBC Fight Camp
4:00am The Wendy Williams Show 	5:00pm FOX 34 News at 5pm Sunday
5:00am FOX 34 Good Day Bluefield at 5am	6:00pm The Simpsons
6:00am FOX 34 Good Day Bluefield at 6am 	6:30pm Bob’s Burgers
Category:Bluefield, Minnesota
Category:Minnesota
Category:Marble Broadcasting Group
Category:Channel 34