JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Happy 45th birthday, FOX30! The station first signed on the air on Feb. 15, 1981.<\/p>\n
A full page ad ran in the Florida Times-Union on Sunday, February 8, 1981, exactly one week before Channel 30, WAWS-TV signed on. <\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Programming consisted of kids shows, sitcoms from the \u201950s & \u201960s and movies on the weekend. <\/p>\n The main attraction was the 8 O\u2019Clock movie each weeknight, which aired with only two commercial interruptions. The movie package was extensive, and \u201cThe Deer Hunter\u201d actually aired unedited.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Channel 30 was known for it\u2019s original programming which included \u201cTV Powww!,\u201d a live interactive video game show for kids, many 12 hour marathon airings of shows like \u201cStar Trek,\u201d \u201cThe Twilight Zone\u201d and \u201cThe Honeymooners,\u201d and even professional wrestling that was recorded in our studio.<\/p>\n Offices and the studio were located on Hogan Road, the current location of our transmitter and tower site.<\/p>\n Construction started in the fall of 1980 and was completed in January, 1981.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Originally, being an Independent station, Channel 30 became part of the FOX network in 1986.<\/p>\n There were many logo changes throughout the years.<\/p>\n The call letters, WAWS were named for Ashley Wellhouse Stein, the granddaughter of Martin Stein, the founder of Regency Square.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Happy 45th birthday, FOX30! The station first signed on the air on Feb. 15, 1981.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[77519,116,118,117,634],"class_list":["post-161942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-channel_30_waws","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}