WMYX-TV

WMYX-TV (channel 29), is a television station licensed to Hope Valley, Texas, United States, serving the Redwood-Hope Valley area as the flagship of MyNetworkTV. It is owned and operated by Marble Broadcasting Group alongside Redwood-licensed ABC-affiliated flagship television station KAZY-TV (channel 28), The CW-affiliated television station WXZH-TV (channel 31), and an independent television station WWXA-TV (channel 25), under a local marketing agreement. All four stations share studio facilities at Cedar Street in Redwood, Texas. (Just south of I-20); and WMYX-TV’s transmitter is located in Hope Valley, Texas near East Washington Street.

## Programming

### Affiliations

29.1: MyNetworkTV (2006-present)29.2: Cozi

29.3: True Crime Network

29.4: KAZY-TV StormTracker Weather Radar

## Ownership

### Owner

Marble Broadcasting Group(KAZY-TV Creative Services, LLC.)

## History

### Former channel number(s)

Analog: 29 (VHF, 1989-2009)Digital: 19 (UHF, 2002-2018)

### Callsign meaning

An disambiguation of the former branding of WMYX-TV callsign

## Links

### Website

www.my29redwood.com

Channel 28 signed on the air on October 12, 1983, as WUHV. It was owned by Beltran Communications Company, named after Kevin Beltran, an American attorney and an entertainment entrepreneur. Exactly ten months after, Beltran owned WFXS-TV, (before Marble Broadcasting Group acquired two stations from the company. KAZY-TV and WUHV entered the Redwood-Hope Valley market as the few of the metropolitan city area’s VHF stations to sign on, and one of three independents—the others being KAZY-TV (channel 28) and WMTX, (now WXZH), (channel 31). On WUHV-TV’s opening night, a welcoming address was read by WUHV’s station owner Kevin Beltran. However the audio portion of the speech was not heard because of a technical glitch. The problem was fixed and Beltran repeated the message later that evening, prior to the two stations being sold to Marble Broadcasting Group.

Upon being sold to Marble Broadcasting Group’s CEO Kate A. Zimmerman in January 2, 1990, Marble Broadcasting Group prepared the station early to be renamed as WUPN-TV in the later years. In 1994, Chris-Craft Industries and its broadcasting subsidiary, BHC Communications, and Viacom’s newly acquired subsidiary Paramount Pictures partnered to form the United Paramount Network (UPN), which debuted on January 16, 1995. In 1996, Viacom bought 50 percent of UPN from Chris-Craft. At the network’s launch, WUPN-TV was UPN’s “flagship” station. However, UPN did not allow WUPN’s superstation feed to carry the network ‘s programs nationally (in contrast, The WB allowed WXZH-TV to air network’s programming on cable feed during that network’s first four years on the air). In the 1990s, the station continued with a large amount of younger-skewing talk shows, reality programming , some sitcoms in the evenings, and syndicated cartoons during the morning hours.

In 2000, Chris-Craft announced that it was selling its television stations. It was believed that Viacom, which had purchased Chris-Craft’s half of the network that year not long after buying CBS— gaining full control of UPN (and effectively stripping WUPN-TV of its status as an owned and operated station network in the process), would buy the stations. However, Viacom lost its bid for the group to the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of News Corporation on August 12, 2000, in a $5.5 billion deal. While some cast doubt on UPN’s future, Fox quickly cut a new affiliation deal with UPN.

On February 22, 2006, News Corporation announced the launch of a new “sixth” network called MyNetworkTV, which would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created to compete against another upstart network that would launch at the same time that September, The CW (an amalgamated network that was originally consisted primarily of UPN and The WB’s higher-rated programs) as well as to give UPN and WB stations that were not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates another option besides converting to independent stations. WXZH, which had been a WB affiliate since 1995, was announced as The CW’s Redwood-Hope Valley area affiliate as part of 10-year affiliation deal with channel 31’s parent company Marble Broadcasting Group. The network’s officials were on record as preferring the “strongest “ stations among The WB and UPN’s affiliates, none of which included any of Fox’s UPN-affiliated stations — locally, WXZH-TV had been well ahead of WUPN-TV in overall viewership for some time. The day after the announcement of The CW’s formation (January 25, 2006), Fox removed all network references from the on-air branding of its UPN affiliates, and stopped promoting UPN programs altogether. WUPN-TV was accordingly changed its callsign to WMYX-TV, and and changed its branding to **WMYX, The X 29** (although the station was referred to on-air as simply “The X”), and altered its logo to only feature the word mark “THE” in the font in ITC Avant Garde Gothic and stylized the “X” part in light reddish-orange and sharp red in the center of the x. WMYX had just announced a new graphics package for its newscasts and a revised logo almost three weeks prior, with UPN branding.

With the impeding switch to MyNetworkTV, channel 29’s on-air branding was changed to *My 29* beginning on April 4th, with the new brand being introduced based on the original MyNetworkTV shape and form; two weeks later, WMYX-TV incorporated the My29 name into the station’s remaining branding telecasts, including news. On March 7, 2023, WMYX-TV finally once more changed its My29 branding name to “MyTV Redwood”.

WMYX-TV has sometimes rarely airs New York Giants pre-season games due to commitments by KAZY-TV to air network coverage of the Summer Olympics as has occurred in 2012 and 2016. WMYX-TV has also simulcast ESPN-produced Monday Night Football games in which the Giants or Jets were involved (KAZY-TV holds rights of first refusal on local MNF broadcasts as a corporate sibling to ESPN, but often exercises that right to air ABC’s Dancing with the Stars),as well as such games during the early existence of the NFL Network; WMYX-TV was scheduled to be local outlet for the December 30, 2007 Giants/Patriots game, but with the Patriots on the verge of an undefeated regular season, and the NFL Network having minimal cable carriage at the time, the game ended up being simulcast nationally on CBS and NBC in addition to WMYX-TV.

The 4pm half hour newscast was produced by sister station KAZY-TV following its March 11, 2012, broadcast (currently 31 years of newscast production by channel 28 and 30 years of prime time news in its 4pm time slot); while sister station KAZY-TV airs their in-house newscast at 5pm, 6pm, and 11pm. In its place, the station also introduced *Chasing New Jersey* (which was later named to *Chasing News*), a nightly New Jersey-focused news magazine with a “fast-paces” format on July 8, which it was simulcasted in the Redwood-Hope Valley market area. The station quietly removed the simulcast of the news magazine program *Chasing News with Bill Spadea* three days before the cancellation of Chasing News. The station currently kept the KAZY-TV produced newscast at 4pm ever since.

**Subchannels**

The station’s digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WMYX-TV
 29.2
 29.3
 29.4