WJXF

WJXF is an ABC affiliate serving Jackson, Mississippi and the Jackson Metro area. Broadcasting on channel 7, WJXF is owned and operated by Island Television. WJXF signed on in 1970 and became an ABC affiliate. The station was launched by the American Public Life Insurance Company, an insurer which is still in business today but is now an affiliate of American Fidelity Assurance. American Public Life sold the station to Clay Communications in 1979. That company then sold it to Price Communications in 1987. Price Communications sold it to the newly founded Northstar Television Group in 1989. Northstar Television was bought out by Argyle Television Holdings II, a company which was formed in late 1994 by a group of managers and executives who left the first incarnation of Argyle Television (the former Times-Mirror Broadcasting) after that company sold all of its stations to New World Communications, in January 1995.

In August 1997, Argyle merged with the Hearst Corporation's broadcasting unit to form what was then known as Hearst-Argyle Television (now Hearst Television after the Hearst Corporation became sole owner of the group in mid-2009). In 2012, Island Television shocked the market when they purchased the station from Hearst Television.