WLXN-TV

WLXN-TV, channel 5, is a Fox owned-and-operated station, licensed to Lexington, North Carolina. Owned by Fox Television Stations, it now has a duopoly with WUPE-TV which is located in  nearby Landis.

History
WLXN-TV signed on in 1949 as ABC station WMTZ-TV, by Larry Maellard Buchanan, a relative of the late Asa Buchanan. WMTZ was purchased by George Storer's Storer Broadcasting and Enochville is the first market in North Carolina for a station to be owned by George Storer along with stations in the Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee, Tampa, and Toledo markets.

Failed sale to Spartan Radiocasting, then swap to Gulf Broadcasting
On April 17, 1980, Storer has intended to sell WMTZ-TV to Spartanburg-based Spartan Radiocasting, which at the time owned WENN-TV, channel 7. The reason for selling WMTZ-TV is that they wanted to buy WENS-TV, channel 11, and due to FCC regulations at the time, they couldn't keep WMTZ-TV. Doing so would have violated the rules of the FCC. Storer would have sold channel 5 to Spartan, but because they own channel 7, an NBC affiliate, they would also be in violation of FCC rules. To remedy this problem, Storer offered to swap channel 5 to Gulf Broadcasting, in order to get channel 11 without any problems. The deal has united WMTZ-TV with its sister station, WGHP-TV, channel 8 in High Point, and the swap was finalized in September of that year.

Call letter change, affiliation swap and Taft's acquisition of Gulf Broadcasting
In 1985, Gulf Broadcasting was acquired by Taft Broadcasting

News operation
When the station first launched in 1949, they started their newscasts from their first studio on 8237 Smith Road, in Enochville, and stayed at the building, until 1976, when they moved into the newly-built studios in the 8228 block, considered to be the state of the art studios at the time. In 1994, during the affiliation switch to Fox under New World ownership, WLXN has moved to a new studio in the Ferncliff neighborhood of Dayton.

In 2004, WLXN has debuted a new graphics package, which is a combined variation of sister stations' WAGA Fox 5 and Fox 8 WGHP graphics packages, with the opens similar to Atlanta sister station WAGA-TV, and the rest of the graphics similar to High Point sister station WGHP.

News themes

 * WAGA Eyewitness News - Eddie Horst (1990-1999)
 * News Now - Mark Haffner (1994-1999)
 * Outlaw News - Stephen Arnold Music (1999-present)
 * Overture - Stephen Arnold Music (2002-present)

Voiceover talents

 * John B. Wells (1981-1995)
 * Steve Martin (1995- 2002)
 * Dude Walker (1996-present)