WPXP-TV
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| City | Lake Worth, Florida |
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Former call signs | WHBI (unbuilt, 1987–1997) |
Former channel numberTemplate:Pluralize from text | Analog: 67 (UHF, 1998–2009) |
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Call sign meaning | Pax West Palm Beach |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
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| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 385 m (1,263 ft) |
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| Website | iontelevision |
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WPXP-TV (channel 67) is a television station licensed to Lake Worth, Florida, United States, serving the West Palm Beach area as an affiliate of Ion Television. Owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings, the station maintains offices on Banyan Boulevard in West Palm Beach, while its transmitter is located near Greenacres, Florida.
Until 2021, as the Ion owned-and-operated station for West Palm Beach, where Ion's headquarters are located, WPXP was 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. However, Inyo Broadcast Holdings, the current owner of WPXP, is planning to be sold to the E. W. Scripps Company, who currently owns WPTV-TV and WHDT, and operates WFLX-TV under a shared services agreement with Gray Media.
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.[3] 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 then-sister station WPXM-TV carried Florida Marlins baseball games from 2002 to 2005.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Short name | Programming |
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| 67.1 | 720p | ION | Ion Television |
| 67.2 | 480i | Mystery | Ion Mystery |
| 67.3 | DEFY | Defy | |
| 67.4 | Grit | Grit | |
| 67.5 | BUSTED | Busted | |
| 67.6 | GameSho | Game Show Central | |
| 67.7 | HSN2 | HSN2 | |
| 67.8 | HSN | HSN | |
| 67.9 | QVC | QVC |
Analog-to-digital conversion
WPXP-TV ended regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 67, on June 12, 2009, the official date on 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, using virtual channel 67.[5]
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.[6]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Maas, Jennifer (February 26, 2026). "Scripps CEO Adam Symson Renews Contract Through 2029 Amid Company's Major Cost-Cutting Plan, Reacquisition of 23 ION Affiliate TV Stations". Variety. Retrieved February 27, 2026.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Facility Technical Data for WPXP-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Stations change call letters to reflect Paxson affiliation". The Miami Herald. January 13, 1998.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."RabbitEars TV Query for WPXP". RabbitEars.info. Archived from the original on October 10, 2023. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."RabbitEars Contour Map for WPXP-TV". Archived from the original on April 25, 2023. Retrieved April 25, 2023.
External links
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