WFXJ is a Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...

 sports-talk radio

Talk radio

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 station. Local programming includes The Tom McManus Show featuring former NFL linebacker and author Tom McManus and The Pete Prisco Show. WFXJ also is the home of the Jacksonville Suns

Jacksonville Suns

The Jacksonville Suns are a minor league baseball team based in Jacksonville, Florida. The team is currently a member of the Southern League and is the class Double-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins Major League Baseball team...

, the AA minor league

Minor league baseball

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 affiliate of the Florida Marlins

Florida Marlins

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 and the "flagship home of the Florida Gators

Florida Gators

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". WFXJ also carries all Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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 regular season games.

Former station personalities include retired athletes such as Tony Boselli

Tony Boselli

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 and Dave Widell

Dave Widell

David Harold Widell, Jr. is a former American football guard and tackle who played 11 seasons in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos, Jacksonville Jaguars, and the Atlanta Falcons. He was a part of the Atlanta Falcons' Super Bowl XXXIII losing team...

.

WFXJ in the past has had competition from WBWL

WBWL

WBOB is a radio station broadcasting a talk radio format. Licensed to Jacksonville, Florida, USA, the station is currently owned by The Walt Disney Company.-History:...

, AM 600 The Ball, which was a sister station

Sister station

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 to Jacksonville Jaguars

Jacksonville Jaguars

The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

 flagship

Flagship

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 WOKV

WOKV

WOKV and WOKV-FM are a pair of American radio stations in the Jacksonville, Florida, area. WOKV-AM/FM is owned by Cox Radio of Atlanta, Georgia, and simulcasts a conservative talk radio format....

. But in 2001, WBWL ended its sports format and switched to Radio Disney

Radio Disney

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, today the station is WBOB

WBOB

WBOB may refer to:* WBOB , radio station 600 AM in Jacksonville, Florida, United States* WBOB-FM, radio station 107.3 FM in Enfield, North Carolina, United States...

, airing mostly conservative talk shows. Other competing sports stations included WZNZ ESPN 1460 (later known as Rumble 1460), and WGSR The Winner 1570, but both stations changed formats by 2004, leaving WFXJ alone with this format in the market. In 2007, another competitor, WJXL

WJXL

WJXL 1010 AM, known on-air as 1010 XL, is a sports radio station licensed to Jacksonville Beach, Florida, owned and operated by Seven Bridges Radio, under its president Steve Griffin. Griffin also serves as General Manager of the station....

, emerged featuring more local programming.

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