WOGX

WOGX

Semi-satellite of WOFL, Orlando, Florida
Ocala–Gainesville, Florida United States
City	Ocala, Florida
Channels	Digital: 31 (UHF) Virtual: 51
Branding	Fox 51 WOGX; Fox 51 News
Programming
Affiliations	51.1: Fox for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Fox Television Stations, LLC
Sister stations	WOFL, WRBW, WTVT
History
First air date	November 1, 1983 (40 years ago) (1983-11-01)
Former call signs	WBSP-TV (1983–1987)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 51 (UHF, 1983–2009)
Former affiliations	Independent (1983–1991)
Call sign meaning	"Ocala–Gainesville" plus an X to conform to other call signs of 1980s owner Wabash Valley Broadcasting
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	70651
ERP	500 kW
HAAT	259 m (850 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	29°21′33.2″N 82°19′42.6″W / 29.359222°N 82.328500°W / 29.359222; -82.328500
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.wogx.com

WOGX (channel 51) is a television station licensed to Ocala, Florida, United States (in the Orlando television market), but primarily serving the Gainesville area as a Fox network outlet. Owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division, the station maintains an advertising sales office on Northwest 53rd Avenue in Gainesville and a transmitter in unincorporated Marion County, between Williston and Fairfield. It is considered a semi-satellite of WOFL (channel 35) in Orlando, which handles management and technical services and whose newscasts it simulcasts.

Efforts to build channel 51 in Ocala dated to the late 1960s, and for most of the 1970s, there was a serious effort to construct a station to be known as "WOCA". When that attempt fizzled after the Federal Communications Commission ruled they had spent too much time building the station, two interested parties formed Big Sun Television, which won the permit and put WBSP-TV on the air in October 1983. It operated as a conventional independent station with a range of movies and syndicated programs. Big Sun sold the station in 1986 to Indiana-based Wabash Valley Broadcasting, which changed the call sign to WOGX the next year and upgraded programming. Channel 51 joined the Fox network in May 1991, bringing the network to Gainesville for the first time.

The Meredith Corporation, then-owner of WOFL, bought WOGX-TV from Wabash Valley Broadcasting in January 1996 and immediately moved to consolidate operating functions with WOFL. The station debuted a local newscast in 1998, including an edition only seen in the Ocala–Gainesville market, though the latter lasted less than a year. WOFL and WOGX were traded to Fox Television Stations in 2002.