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[2] Channel 31 was originally allocated to Wittenberg, Wisconsin; though within Shawano County, which is assigned by Nielsen to the Green Bay market, it was instead utilized to provide a Fox affiliate for Wausau to the west, which originally had none and instead carried stations from Green Bay and Madison to provide the network to Wausau viewers due to a lack of demand for the network from its 1987 launch, nor any financially feasible way to launch an independent station at that time.The market's overall small population meant that NBC affiliate WJFW-TV (channel 12), based out of Rhinelander and the last station in the area to launch outside satellite stations before 1999, carried children's programming such as The Disney Afternoon on weekdays instead rather than programming for general audiences due to these issues unique to the market.This changed in 1994 when Fox acquired the rights to carry NFC games from the National Football League.[4] This became a priority for Weigel after WGBA-TV (channel 26) dropped MeTV shortly after its parent company acquired Ion Media.In the summer of 2023, Weigel petitioned the FCC to relocate the city of license allocation east (while remaining in Shawano County) to the larger county seat of Shawano with a higher transmitter power, likely to allow the station to provide city-grade service to Shawano and Wittenberg from Scray's Hill, the main transmitter site for the Green Bay market, southeast of the city in the Town of Glenmore.