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October 1, 2011 (also running for one hour); the Thursday preceding the latter expansion (September 29), WFFT became the first television station
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since March 2018). It was the last Fox affiliate in
Indiana to launch a news department, but the only local affiliate in the country to launch a new newscast in 2009. Airing for 35 minutes on weeknights and anchored by broadcast veteran Jim Blue, the show competed with a half-hour 10 p.m. newscast on
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WFFT reverted to independent status on August 1, 2011, which made Fort Wayne one of the only television markets in the United States with all three legacy broadcast networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) with primary affiliations, and all three current post-1986 networks (Fox, The CW and MyNetworkTV) carried as
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on its primary channel as Fox and MyNetworkTV shared that station's second digital subchannel). Nexstar sought a judgment to force either WPTA-TV or WISE-TV to give up at least one of the three Big Four affiliations they had (the impetus of the lawsuit became ironic as
Nexstar, which itself maintains
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Charles Willer, turned down the Happy part when the station asked him to retire his other character as a condition of employment. Fry was then hired to play the part of Happy. He also had a
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and videos from the station's library. The appeal of 24-hour broadcasting was so popular, it later ended up staying on the air all night each Friday and
Saturday on a regular basis during a time when the other Fort Wayne stations would sign-off around 1 or 2 a.m.; it filled the overnight
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operation. As with the 1980 production, personnel served as multi-platform journalists, shooting and editing their own stories. There was no sports department until the newscast's expansion following the loss of the Fox affiliation. The newscast was the only one in Fort Wayne to receive an
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digital multicast channels in a market with four commercial full-power stations. As an independent, the station filled its prime time schedule with a mix of entertainment newsmagazines and sitcoms on weeknights, a two-hour "Saturday
Crimetime" block of
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in 1976. On it, Tim
Eppenstein played the character of Happy, and Mike McMellon provided the voice of Froggie. Parents had a place to sit on the side and were not shown to be part of the TV audience. During commercial breaks, local entrepreneur
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Beaverson. Characters 'Chester T. Fox' (Paul Moring) and 'Lawn Boy' (Rick Miller) were added later. Fry left the show in 1990 to concentrate on his business interests, and the role of Happy was filled by Phillip Colglazier.
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WFFT presently broadcasts 17 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with three hours each weekday, and an hour each on
Saturdays and Sundays); in addition, the station also airs a half-hour weekly sports wrap-up show, titled
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was an afternoon children's television program that aired on WFFT-TV in the 1980s and 1990s. The program was known for its two-hour block of children's programming that initially aired from 3 to 5 p.m. and included
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1560:"Nexstar's WFFT Fort Wayne Back in Fox Fold"
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1587:"Prather Buys 5 TVs From Nexstar-Media Gen"
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1558:Malone, Michael (February 6, 2013).
2701:Fox Broadcasting Company affiliates
1718:. Reviewjournal.com. March 21, 2012
1455:Jessell, Harry A. (July 25, 2011).
1275:Miller, Mark K. (October 1, 2019).
826:filed an antitrust lawsuit against
727:WFFT became a charter affiliate of
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1612:WFFT’s first, short-lived newscast
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1474:Knable, Kate (January 29, 2013).
1430:Malone, Michael (July 19, 2011).
1311:Federal Communications Commission
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1807:RabbitEars TV Query for WFFT
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