WJKS-TV (alternate reality)

WJKS-TV, virtual channel 17 in this alternate reality, is a CBS-affiliated television station located in Jacksonville, Florida. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group. WJKS in this reality still has it's studio and transmitter in Hogan Road in the Kilarney Shores section of Jacksonville.

1965-1997
For all logos of the real WJKS-TV pre-1997, see WCWJ's page on Logopedia.

1997-1999
In 1997, Allbritton decided to enter the Jacksonville market, by buying WBSG-TV 21 from Brunswick, Georgia, but they made an exception for the station and kept it as a WB affiliate, and upstart WJXX-TV 25 also as a WB affiliate, serving Jacksonville. This made WJKS-TV relieved as they kept their ABC affiliation.

1999-2002
In 1999, WJKS-TV decided to change their news branding from "First Coast News" to "NewsChannel 17". NBC affiliate, WTLV 12 took advantage of this change, and the next year, they used "First Coast News" as their news branding, along with newly-acquired WB-affiliated WJXX-TV 25.

2002-2010
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n 2002, CBS told Post-Newsweek (now Graham Media Group), who owned rival WJXT 4, that they would be moving towards a reverse compensation model for it's affiliates, which would've required WJXT to run the entire CBS lineup without pre-emptions, and Post-Newsweek believed that it would come at the expense of local programming. However, WJXT was able to find that it could switch affiliations from CBS to ABC.

On April 3, 2002, WJXT and WJKS-TV swapped affiliations with each other, resulting in WJKS-TV becoming Jacksonville's new CBS affiliate. At the same time, WJKS-TV changed it's logo to match it's Media General sister stations by adding a yellow disc logo.

2010-present
WJKS-TV made a slight modification to it's logo in 2010, by removing the yellow disc from it's logo and moving the CBS logo slightly towards the "17" logo. On January 27, 2016, it was announced that the Nexstar Broadcasting Group would buy Media General for $4.6 billion. WJKS-TV became part of the newly-minted Nexstar Media Group on January 17, 2017.