In addition of performing at games and pep rallies, members function as goodwill ambassadors of the team, participating in corporate, community and charitable events in the Jacksonville metropolitan area where they sign autographs and pose for pictures.

Consolidation gave Jacksonville its great size and placed most of its metropolitan population within the city limits ; with a population of 821, 784, it is the most populous city proper in Florida and the Southeast, and the eleventh most populous in the United States.

The second event happened on December 26, 2010, when measurable snow fell for the first time in 21 years across metropolitan Jacksonville.

It is included in the Jacksonville, North Carolina metropolitan area.

Fortis College provides career education and training to people in greater metropolitan Jacksonville and Clay county, Florida.

Mayo Clinic has a large presence in three U. S. metropolitan areas: Rochester, Minnesota, Jacksonville, Florida, and Scottsdale / Phoenix, Arizona.

The Jacksonville Business Journal is a weekly newspaper and web site that publishes news and information about business people, companies, organizations, issues and events primarily in the metropolitan area of Jacksonville, Florida, which includes northeast Florida and southeast Georgia.

Like the area's other Southern rock acts, their music typically expressed the values, hopes and excesses of 1970s-era young adults in a Southern metropolitan area like Jacksonville, in addition to Southern (" Gator Country ", " Sweet Dixie ") and Western themes (" Edge of Sundown ", " Bounty Hunter ", " Gunsmoke ").

The same applies for the Orlando, Florida metropolitan area, as its local CBS affiliate WKMG broadcasts both Miami Dolphins and Jacksonville Jaguars games.

Stanton perennially leads the Jacksonville metropolitan area in the number of National Merit Scholarship recipients, and consistently ranks in the top three in the state.

MetroPCS has stores in 19 metropolitan markets and surrounding areas including New York City / Northern New Jersey, Atlanta, Bakersfield, Boston, Dallas, Detroit, Jacksonville, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando, Philadelphia, Providence, Riverside, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Bernardino, San Jose, Shreveport, and Tampa.

Pop singer Pat Boone appeared on one episode as himself, with the premise that he hailed from the same area of the country as the Clampetts, though Boone is a native of Jacksonville, Florida.

Clay County is part of the Greater Jacksonville Metropolitan area.

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.

As with much of Florida, tourism is also important to the Jacksonville area, particularly tourism related to golf.

The area of the modern city of Jacksonville has been inhabited for thousands of years.

One early map shows a village called Ossachite at the site of what is now downtown Jacksonville ; this may be the earliest recorded name for that area.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of, making Jacksonville the largest city in land area in the contiguous United States ; of this, 86. 66 % () is land and ; 13. 34 % () is water.

The United States Geological Survey states that the highest point in Jacksonville is only 40 feet ( 12. 2 meters ) above sea level, making the area susceptible to flooding and storm surge.

The city has only received one direct hit from a hurricane since 1871, although Jacksonville has experienced hurricane or near-hurricane conditions more than a dozen times due to storms passing through the state from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean, or passing to the north or south in the Atlantic and brushing past the area.

Similarly, four years prior to this, Jacksonville was inundated by Hurricane Frances and Hurricane Jeanne, which made landfall south of the area.

The area that became Duval County was home to the 16th-century French colony of Fort Caroline, and saw increased European settlement in the 18th century with the establishment of Cowford, later renamed Jacksonville.

When Duval County was created, it covered a massive area, from the Suwannee River on the west to the Atlantic Ocean on the east, north of a line from the mouth of the Suwannee River to Jacksonville on the St. Johns River.

Nassau County is part of the Greater Jacksonville Metropolitan area.

St. Johns County is part of the Greater Jacksonville Metropolitan area.

Jacksonville State University is located here, which is a center of commerce and one of the largest employers in the area.

Middleburg is an unincorporated area within Clay County, Florida, United States, located 29 miles southwest of downtown Jacksonville, Florida, 16 miles northwest of Green Cove Springs, Florida, and home to Middleburg High School.

Like most of northeast Florida, the Jacksonville Beach area was originally inhabited by the Timucua peoples.

Though the Jacksonville Beaches region was one of the first parts of what is now the continental United States to see settlement during the period of European colonization, the area of Jacksonville Beach itself was not settled until the 19th century.

Through its development, the part of Jacksonville Beach north of 20th Avenue North was sparsely populated, with a brick road ( First Street ) connecting the more populated southern area with Atlantic Beach.

* " Jacksonville " ( Fringe ), an episode of the television series Fringe

Notable local announcers include John Sterling ( New York Stars / Charlotte Hornets television ), Spencer Ross ( New York Stars radio ), Bob Sheppard ( New York Stars PA ), Mike Patrick ( Jacksonville Sharks ), Larry King ( Shreveport Steamer ), Larry Matson ( Birmingham Americans / Birmingham Vulcans ), Fred Sington ( Birmingham Americans / Birmingham Vulcans ) and Eddie Doucette and Vince Lloyd ( Chicago Fire radio and TV respectively ).

WTEV-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for Florida's First Coast that is licensed to Jacksonville.

Thigpenn, who gained faith to create a similar venture in Jacksonville, mentioned on-the-air that he wanted to start a Christian television station for the Jacksonville market.

Before the public meeting, Thigpenn had already contacted the Broadcast Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) to discover that two analog television frequencies ( channels 30 and 47 ) were available for broadcast in Jacksonville.

On April 23, 2002, CBS signed an affiliation agreement with Clear Channel for WTEV-TV to become the new CBS affiliate for the Jacksonville television market.

With WTEV obtaining the CBS affiliation, the situation resulted in two broadcasting companies controlling each of Jacksonville's Big Four network affiliates ( Gannett Company owns both ABC affiliate WJXX and NBC affiliate WTLV ), as well as making Jacksonville one of the only United States television markets with all six major broadcast networks ( ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, and at the time, UPN and The WB ) having affiliations with only five stations in a six station-market ( which remains true in the present day with UPN and WB successors The CW and MyNetworkTV ) and one of the few where an analog-era VHF station has no network affiliation while all the other stations in the market do.

WJXX is the ABC-affiliated television station in Jacksonville, Florida, serving Florida's First Coast and Georgia's Colonial Coast.

On February 1, 2010, WTLV and WJXX began broadcasting their First Coast News programs in high definition, becoming the final two television stations in Jacksonville to make the upgrade.

WTLV is the NBC-affiliated television station serving Florida's First Coast and Georgia's Colonial Coast that is licensed to Jacksonville, Florida.

On February 1, 2010, WTLV and WJXX began broadcasting their First Coast News programs in high definition, becoming the final two television stations in Jacksonville to make the upgrade.

The following year the Post / CBS joint venture bought the CBS-affiliated television station in Washington, and changed the call letters to WTOP-TV, and in 1953 the company bought WMBR radio and WMBR-TV in Jacksonville, Florida.

Paula Kelly ( born October 21, 1943, Jacksonville, Florida ) is a dancer and actress in motion pictures, television and theatre.

KETK-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station serving East Texas that is licensed to Jacksonville.

WJXT is an independent television station serving Florida's First Coast that is licensed to Jacksonville.

Although its only competition in the Jacksonville market came from UHF station WJHP-TV ( which signed on in 1953 and went dark three years later ), the station had a virtual monopoly on television in northern Florida until 1957, when it lost the NBC affiliation to upstart WFGA ( now WTLV ).

In 2001, WJXT was awarded the local broadcast rights to Jacksonville Jaguars preseason football games, replacing WTLV as the official station for the NFL franchise ( WTLV had carried preseason games and Jaguars-related programs since the team's 1995 inaugural season ); the deal also included carriage of the team's coaches show and other Jaguars-related television programs.

The shift made Jacksonville one of the only United States television markets with all six major broadcast networks at the time ( ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, UPN and The WB ) having affiliations with only five stations in a six-station market ( which remains the case with UPN and The WB's successors The CW and MyNetworkTV in the present day ), the only market in which each affiliate of the Big Four networks are controlled by two companies ( Gannett currently owns WTLV and ABC affiliate WJXX ; at the time, Clear Channel owned both WTEV and Fox affiliate WAWS, Newport Television presently operates the former and owns the latter station outright ), and one of the few markets where an analog-era VHF station has no network affiliation while the market's other commercial stations ( one VHF and five UHF ) do.

WCWJ is the CW-affiliated television station serving Jacksonville, Florida and Brunswick, Georgia.

WAWS is the Fox-affiliated television station for Florida's First Coast that is licensed to Jacksonville.

On July 20, 2012, one day after Cox purchased four television stations in Jacksonville, Florida and Tulsa, Oklahoma from Newport Television, Cox put WTOV-TV and sister stations in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, El Paso, Texas and Reno, Nevada ( all in markets that are smaller than Tulsa ), plus several radio stations in medium to small markets, on the selling block.

The team, now rebranded as the Jacksonville Lizard Kings, promoted themselves in their new city with a substantial marketing campaign, including television ads featuring a goalie catching a puck with a lizard tongue.

On July 20, 2012, one day after Cox purchased four television stations in Jacksonville, Florida and Tulsa, Oklahoma from Newport Television, Cox put KFOX-TV and sister stations in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Steubenville, Ohio and Reno, Nevada ( all in markets that are smaller than Tulsa ), plus several radio stations in medium to small markets, on the selling block.