Since July 2012, Cox Media Group has operated two “Big Four” stations in Jacksonville. One of those properties, a CBS affiliate on the UHF dial, was owned by Bayshore Television until a 2018 transaction shifted the station to a wholly owned entity led by “retired” CMG President Bill Hoffman.
Now that the FCC’s “Top Four” rule has been shot down by the Eighth Circuit federal appeals court, CMG is free and clear to buy WJAX-TV and own it as a full-fledged sibling to WFOX-TV.
