WPXP-TV

WPXP-TV, virtual channel 67 (UHF digital channel 36), is an Ion Television owned-and-operated station licensed to Lake Worth, Florida, United States, serving the Gold and Treasure Coasts of South Florida. The station is owned by West Palm Beach-based Ion Media Networks (the former Paxson Communications). WPXP-TV's transmitter is located near Greenacres, Florida. It shares a sales office with Miami-licensed sister station WPXM-TV (channel 35) on Northeast 20th Avenue in North Miami.[1] On cable, WPXP-TV is available on Comcast Xfinity channel 8 (in Martin, Palm Beach, Okeechobee, and southern St. Lucie counties) and channel 7 (in Indian River and northern St. Lucie counties), and in high definition on digital channel 439.

WPXP-TV
Lake Worth/West Palm Beach, Florida
United States
CityLake Worth, Florida
ChannelsDigital: 36 (UHF)
Virtual: 67 (PSIP)
BrandingIon Television
SloganPositively Entertaining
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
OwnerIon Media Networks
(Ion Media West Palm Beach License, Inc.)
Sister stationsWPXM-TV, WXPX-TV, WOPX-TV, WPXC-TV
History
First air dateJanuary 5, 1998 (1998-01-05)
Former call signsWHBI (unconstructed, 1987–1997)
Former channel number(s)Analog:
67 (UHF, 1998–2009)
Former affiliationsinTV (January–August 1998)
Call sign meaningPaX West Palm Beach
Technical information
Licensing authorityFCC
Facility ID27290
ClassDT
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT385 m (1,263 ft)
Transmitter coordinates26°35′20″N 80°12′44″W
Links
Public license informationProfile
LMS
Websiteiontelevision.com

As the Ion station for West Palm Beach, where Ion's headquarters are located, WPXP can be considered one of the network's flagship stations, though it has never originated any content for the national network, either as Pax TV, i: Independent Television, or Ion Television.

History

The first application for the station was made in 1984, and the WHBI callsign was assigned in June 1987 until the end of 1997. In January 1998, it finally went on-air after more than a decade of modified and expired construction permits, and took its present call letters upon joining the fledgling Pax TV network.[2] All applications prior to 2003 were by Hispanic Broadcasting, Inc., before becoming Paxson West Palm Beach License, Inc. (a holding company, which is common in broadcasting), though there was no application listed to assign the station to another licensee.

WPXP and sister station WPXM carried Florida Marlins baseball games from 2002 to 2005.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming
67.1720p16:9IONMain Ion Television programming
67.2480i4:3quboQubo
67.3IONPlusIon Plus
67.4ShopIon Shop
67.5QVCQVC
67.6HSNHSN

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Analog-to-digital conversion

WPXP-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 67, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (sister station WPXM opted to do so on the original transition date of February 17). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 36.[4] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 67, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

WPXP's digital signal has a much greater broadcast range than its now-defunct channel 67 analog signal. The analog transmitter was located within the western part of the city of West Palm Beach, and had a service contour that reached as far north as Port St. Lucie and as far south as Pompano Beach (immediately north of Fort Lauderdale). The digital transmitter is west-southwest of Lake Worth, and its service contour reaches as far north as Okeechobee and Fort Pierce, and far south as Kendale Lakes, including all of Palm Beach, Broward, and Martin counties; and northeast Miami-Dade, eastern Hendry, and southern/central St. Lucie counties.

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References
  1. WPXP Station Information
  2. "Stations change call letters to reflect Paxson affiliation". The Miami Herald. 1998-01-13.
  3. RabbitEars TV Query for WPXP
  4. "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
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