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The station first signed on the air on February 19, 1966, as WJKS-TV. [2] Founded by Rust Craft Broadcasting, it originally operated as an ABC affiliate; prior to its sign-on, ABC programming had been relegated to off-hours clearances on then-CBS affiliate WJXT (channel 4, now an independent station) and NBC affiliate WTLV (channel 12).
Baker would anchor the station's 6 p.m. news for 17 years and direct the nascent channel 12 newsroom for 19 years in total, winning the station major national journalism awards. [1] It settled in as a consistent second-place finisher to WJXT in local news—except for two brief periods in the early 1960s and 1975 [ 2 ] —though it worked to ...
Duval County has the fifth largest fire department in the state based on the number of fire stations. [5] JFRD is among the largest departments in the state and the nation. The department is made up of six divisions, sixty-three fire and rescue station locations, a professional career force of roughly thirteen-hundred individuals. [6] [7] [8]
The city recently closed on a vacant lot just west of the Sonic on Central and Juan Tabo, which will become the future site of Fire Station 12. The land cost $1.4 million, and the estimated ...
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The two stations share studios on East Adams Street (near EverBank Stadium) in downtown Jacksonville; WTLV's transmitter is located on Anders Boulevard in the city's Killarney Shores section. Channel 12 in Jacksonville began broadcasting on September 1, 1957, as WFGA-TV.
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After Fire Station No. 3 was disbanded in 1933, the building was used first to host the Jacksonville Fire Department shop facilities, and then as a storage facility. The Catherine Street Fire Station was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on June 13, 1972 and converted into the Jacksonville Fire Museum in 1982. It was ...