History
WVXF signed on for the first time on July 1, 1999, as a CBS affiliate. Prior to WVXF's sign-on, CBS programming was seen on Charlotte Amalie's WBNB-TV (channel 10). However, that station went dark permanently following Hurricane Hugo in 1989, when its transmitter was destroyed and the cash-strapped Benedek Broadcasting (owner of several network affiliates in small and mid-sized markets on the mainland) could not afford to rebuild; Benedek retained that station's license until 1995, when it was surrendered on grounds of abandonment. Starting in 1990, CBS service was only available by satellite via network flagship WCBS-TV (from New York) and later Erie, Pennsylvania, affiliate WSEE-TV (which became available on the Primetime 24 package in 1997); the latter is currently carried by most cable and satellite providers in the Caribbean.
Before the launch of The CW, WSJP was a dual affiliate of UPN and The WB. Prior to the station's flash cut to digital, The CW and LATV were WSJP's sole affiliations. Since the switch to Fox in 2014, former sister station WPRU-LP had gone silent, with the American Broadcasting Company affiliations moving to WORA-TV and WRFB.
On July 1, 2009, shortly after the digital television transition, WVXF switched affiliations, from CBS to This TV. Since July 13, CBS programming is available on TV2. In preparation, DirecTV and Dish Network dropped WVXF in favor of WSEE-TV shortly before the affiliation change (the station has since returned to Dish Network).
In January 2010, WVXF rebranded as "EFN Caribbean", adding some syndicated shows and a local fashion-oriented program, Fashion Today, to its This TV programming.[2] The station relaunched once more on May 1, 2011, joining Disney-ABC's Live Well Network as its first primary-channel affiliate, along with giving WEON's Fox feed a high definition home on the second subchannel, which eventually became its sole channel when WEON-LP went dark on December 31, 2011.[3] In late 2014, WVXF-DT1 reverted to This TV, ahead of Live Well ending national distribution in April 2015.
