WOXS-TV

WOXS-TV, virtual channel 22 (VHF digital channel 10) is a NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Crystalville, Indiana. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which also owns CW affiliate WSHB-TV (channel 32) thru a local marketing deal with Crystalville Partners Inc. The two stations share studios on Heol Pibydd Y Dorlan Lane in Crystalville. (named after one of WOXS' news anchors). The station's transmitter are located at Alpha Lawn in Northwestern Crystalville. 
== History ==
=== Early History ===
The station first went on the air on August 30, 1978 as WDPI-TV. Initially owned by Atlin Communications of Indiana, it ran as an independent station. It was Crystalville's first general entertainment independent station as preceding independent station, WJSK-TV (now WMBC-TV) was a religious station. During its initial launch, it mostly aired syndicated sitcoms, dramas, and cartoons as well as several NBC and ABC shows that affiliates WACR-TV and WKSH-TV preempt.
In 1984, Atlin Communications would merge into Outlet Broadcasting and would be used as a subsidiary to handle Outlet's Indiana based properties, which include WDPI-TV and recently launched WXIN.
=== Fox affiliation ===
On October 9, 1986, WDPI-TV would become a charter affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company. Correspondingly, the call letters changed to WOXS-TV which stand for "FOX For South Indiana". Like early affiliates of the network, it was considered a de-facto independent station since Fox provided its primetime programming on weekends and wouldn't provide nightly programming until September 1993. And for that, WOXS-TV would usually fill of the timeslot where Fox didn't provide programming with syndicated programming and an 8:00 movie.
Although Outlet would sell fellow Fox affiliates WATL-TV in Atlanta and WXIN-TV in neighboring Indianapolis to Chase Broadcasting, WOXS-TV would remain under ownership of the company. This effectively made it the only Fox affiliate to be owned by Outlet Broadcasting for a while.
=== NBC affiliation ===
In 1994, WACR-TV's then parent company Burnham Broadcasting would merge into SF Broadcasting (a joint-venture between Fox and Savoy Pictures). As part of the purchase and Fox's control of the company, the station would switch their stations to Fox affiliates. Around the exact same time, Outlet would sign a long term deal with NBC to switch their remaining non-NBC stations to NBC affiliates.
On September 25, 1995, WACR-TV and WOXS-TV would swap affiliations with WACR-TV becoming a Fox station with WOXS-TV (almost by default) would become the brand new affiliate of the NBC television network. Also in 1995, WOXS-TV would officially established its own newscast. This marked the first time the station would officially air newscasts and they still do air newscasts to this very day.
In 1996, Outlet would sell their television broadcasting assets to NBC, effectively turning WOXS-TV into an owned and operated affiliate of the NBC network. During the time NBC owned WOXS-TV, it officially made it the first and so far only O&O station in Crystalville, Indiana.
=== Media General and Nexstar ownership ===
In January 9, 2006, NBCUniversal announced they have plans to put former Outlet stations WOXS-TV, WJAR-TV in Providence, RI, WCMH-TV in Columbus, OH, and WNCN-TV in Raleigh, NC, as well WVTM-TV in Birmingham up for sale. On April 6, 2006, Media General would purchase the 5 stations from NBCUniversal for an undisclosed price of $600 million. The purchase of WOXS-TV would make it Media General's first station they owned in the state of Indiana.
On January 27, 2016, Media General announced that it had entered into a definite agreement to be acquired by Nexstar Broadcasting Group for $4.6 billion. The combined company would be called Nexstar Media Group and own 171 stations (including WOXS). The deal was completed on January 17, 2017.
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