WFXL is the Fox network affiliate in Albany, Georgia. The station is owned by Barrington Broadcasting, and broadcasts a digital signal on VHF channel 12. WFXL's transmitter is located in Doerun, in northern Colquitt County, near the Worth County line.
Channel 31 signed on in February 1982 as WTSG-TV, and was South Georgia's first independent station. The station became a Fox affiliate in November 1989, and changed its call letters to WFXL to refl...
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WFXL is the Fox network affiliate in Albany, Georgia. The station is owned by Barrington Broadcasting, and broadcasts a digital signal on VHF channel 12. WFXL's transmitter is located in Doerun, in northern Colquitt County, near the Worth County line.
Channel 31 signed on in February 1982 as WTSG-TV, and was South Georgia's first independent station. The station became a Fox affiliate in November 1989, and changed its call letters to WFXL to reflect the new affiliation.
On March 27, 2006, then-owner Raycom Media announced the sale of WFXL and 11 other stations to Barrington Broadcasting in order to meet FCC rules regarding station ownership (Raycom had just acquired The Liberty Corporation, the owner of WALB, which they decided to keep).
In 2007 WFXL acquired a new, state of the art weather system which will help tremendously in severe weather coverage.
In September 2008, WFXL gave its newscast a new look by means of updated graphics and constructing a new set. At the same time, WFXL...
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