WFGX
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| City | Fort Walton Beach, Florida |
| Channels | |
| Branding | WFGX 35 |
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| WEAR-TV, WPMI-TV, WJTC | |
| History | |
| Founded | December 20, 1983 |
First air date | April 7, 1987 |
Former call signs | WQAC (1983–1987) |
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Call sign meaning | Family Group Broadcasting (founding owners), "X" as a placeholder |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 6554 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 582.8 m (1,912 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°36′45.4″N 87°38′41.6″W / 30.612611°N 87.644889°W |
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Public license information | |
| Website | wfgxtv |
WFGX (channel 35) is a television station licensed to Fort Walton Beach, Florida, United States, serving northwest Florida and southwest Alabama as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Pensacola-licensed ABC affiliate WEAR-TV (channel 3); Sinclair also provides certain services to Mobile, Alabama–licensed NBC affiliate WPMI-TV (channel 15) and Pensacola-licensed independent station WJTC (channel 44) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Deerfield Media.
WFGX and WEAR-TV share studios—which also house master control and some internal operations for WPMI-TV and WJTC—on Mobile Highway (US 90) in unincorporated Escambia County, Florida (with a Pensacola mailing address); WFGX's transmitter is located in unincorporated Baldwin County, Alabama (northeast of Robertsdale).