KFXZ

:For KFXZ radio in Lafayette, Louisiana, see and on Wikipedia.
 (channel 26) is a television station licensed to Pilgrim, San Andreas, United States, serving the Las Venturas Valley as an affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company and is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company.
==History==
===Early history, independence and Fox affiliation===
Originally signed on the air on November 29, 1975 as KVFC, an independent station owned by the Pilgrim Church (hence the call letters stood for Venturas for Christ). When the church faced financial difficulties in 1977, they decided to sell channel 26 to Harte-Hanks Communications. On October 9, 1986, Harte-Hanks signed an affiliation agreement with the Fox Broadcasting Company; whose initial and only program offered at the time was The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers. However, by the time Fox expanded its programming from late nights into evenings in April 1987, network primetime programming initially ran only two days a week (it was not until 1993 that Fox began providing programming on all seven days of the week), so KVFC continued to be essentially programmed as an independent station. In the 1980s, more talk shows were added to the schedule and movies were cut back slightly. In 1995, the callsign was changed to the current KFXZ in order to satisfy the network's branding guidelines.
===Acquisition by Scripps===
In September 1997, Harte-Hanks sold its remaining media properties, including KFXZ, to the E. W. Scripps Company in order to concentrate on the company's direct marketing operations.
==Programming==
===Sports programming===
In 2017, the then Bayside Raiders announced in preparation for their relocation to Las Venturas that KFXZ would be the official home for the team's preseason games and other pre-game programming such as the Silver and Black Show in Las Venturas, which began in the 2017 NFL season. After the Raiders completed their relocation ahead of the 2020 season, KFXZ was named the team's official broadcast partner. However, KLVE serves as the Raiders' de facto "home" station, by virtue of CBS owning the rights to most games from the American Football Conference, where the Raiders play. In addition to preseason and Fox Sports Sunday afternoon games, KFXZ also airs the Raiders' ESPN Monday Night Football, Amazon Prime VideoThursday Night Football and NFL Network appearances.
===News operation===
KFXZ presently broadcasts 78+1⁄2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 14+1⁄2 hours each weekday and three hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output among Las Venturas' broadcast television stations and highest of any Fox affiliate in the nation; in addition, the station's sports department produces Fox 5 Sports Plus, a 15-minute sports highlight program that airs on Sunday evenings after the 10 p.m. newscast.
Prior to affiliating with Fox, KFXZ's news programming consisted solely of daily news updates featured during the station's syndicated programming between the late 1970s and 1986. Scripps eventually started a news department for KFXZ; it began producing a 10 p.m. newscast in June 1998, the Las Venturas market's first local newscast in prime time, the program originated as a weeknight-only half-hour newscast; the broadcast expanded to Saturday and Sunday evenings in June 2002, followed by the expansion of the newscast to an hour-long program in 2003. For the first couple of years, the newscast was solo-anchored by Angelica Urquijo; the station originally did not have a weather anchor or full-time sports anchor; the sports segments were pre-recorded with voice-over work done by boxing analyst Al Bernstein.
In July 1999, the station added a morning newscast that originally aired from 7 to 9 a.m. The following year, the program was expanded by 90 minutes with the addition of a news block from 5:30 to 7 a.m. News programming on channel 5 would not expand again until September 10, 2007, with the debut of an hour-long block of newscasts during the 5 p.m. hour; with the expansion, KFXZ became the only local station in Las Venturas carrying a newscast in the 5:30 p.m. timeslot. One year later on August 4, 2008, KFXZ debuted a half–hour weeknight–only newscast at 11 p.m. On March 7, 2011, the weekday morning newscast (which consisted of the pre–7 a.m. Fox 5 News This Morning and the 7–9 a.m. Fox 5 News: Live in Las Venturas until 2013, when the program uniformly rebranded under the former title) expanded to 4½ hours, with its start time moved to 4:30 a.m. On July 9, 2012, KFXZ debuted a half-hour 6 p.m. newscast.
On April 6, 2020, KFXZ added a half-hour 1 p.m. newscast on weekdays, making it one of a few stations airing a 1 p.m. newscast alongside Los Santos' CW affiliate KTLS and San Diego's Fox affiliate KSWB-TV. On that same day, KFXZ expanded its weeknight 11 p.m. newscast to an hour; this made KFXZ among the very few stations to extend its late newscast to midnight, and one of six Fox affiliates (Kansas City's WDAF-TV, Washington, D.C.'s WTTG, Atlanta's WAGA-TV, Tampa's WTVT and Phoenix's KSAZ-TV being the others) to air a two-hour late local news block.
On September 5, 2022, KFXZ added an hour-long 2 p.m. newscast on weekdays, becoming the first Fox station to air newscasts in that timeslot. Afternoon and evening newscasts now run from 1 to 7:30 p.m.
==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The station's signal is multiplexed:
 Subchannels of KFXZ
Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
26.1 	720p	16:9 	FOX26LV 	Fox
26.2 	480i	16:9 	SCRIPPS 	Scripps News
26.3 	480i	16:9 	MYSTERY 	Ion Mystery
26.4 	480i	16:9 	Dabl 	Dabl
26.5 	480i	16:9 	ThisTV 	ThisTV
26.6 	480i	16:9 	Outlaw 	Outlaw
26.7 	480i	16:9 	The365 	The365
==Gallery==
<tabber>
Logos=
KVFC-WPNJ 26.svg|1977–2004
KFXZ 2004-2012.svg|2004-2012
KFXZ Fox 26 News.svg|"Fox 26 News" logo (2012–present)
|-|
Miscellaneous (station IDs, news opens and screenshots)=
KFXZ news open 2020.png
KFXZ OSB.svg|On-screen bug, displayed during both Fox and syndicated programming
KFXZ Report 1.png|"The Issue Is" graphics (2020–present)
KFXZ Report 2.png|Graphics (2020–present)
KFXZ Report 3.png|"Eras Tour" report (2023)
</tabber>
Category:Channel 26
Category:Fox network affiliates
Category:Las Venturas
Category:San Andreas
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1975
Category:Former independent stations
Category:The E. W. Scripps Company