 | This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "WPXM-TV" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(January 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
| |
|---|---|
| City | Miami, Florida |
| Channels | |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations |
|
| Ownership | |
| Owner | |
| WSFL-TV | |
| History | |
First air date | October 1992 (1992-10)[1] |
Former call signs |
|
Former channel numbers |
|
| |
Call sign meaning | Pax Miami |
| Technical information[2] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 48608 |
| ERP | 225kW |
| HAAT | 279 m (915 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 25°57′31″N80°12′43″W / 25.95861°N 80.21194°W /25.95861; -80.21194 |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Website | iontelevision |
WPXM-TV (channel 35) is atelevision station inMiami, Florida, United States, serving as the market'sIon Television outlet. It isowned and operated by theIon Media subsidiary of theE. W. Scripps Company alongsideindependent stationWSFL-TV (channel 39). WPXM-TV's offices are located on Northwest 14th Street inSunrise, and its transmitter is located inAndover, Florida.
The station first signed on the air in October 1992 as WMLB-TV. Originally operating as anindependent station, the station changed its call letters to WDLP-TV in January 1993, before changing it again to WCTD in December of that year. Channel 35 was acquired by Paxson Communications in 1997. Shortly after the sale was finalized, the station became an affiliate of the Infomall TV Network (inTV), which carried aninfomercial format. On August 31, 1998, the station's call letters were changed to WPXM-TV; that same date, the station became a charter owned-and-operated station of Pax TV (now Ion).
From2002 through the2005 season, WPXM was theflagship broadcast station of the Florida Marlins (now theMiami Marlins), whose games also aired on then-sister stationWPXP-TV inWest Palm Beach.
From 2001 until 2005, whenNBC entered ashared services agreement with Pax TV, WPXM aired rebroadcasts of NBC owned-and-operated stationWTVJ (channel 6)'s newscasts.[citation needed]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
| 35.2 | Bounce | Bounce TV | ||
| 35.3 | 480i | Grit | Grit | |
| 35.4 | Laff | Laff | ||
| 35.5 | BUSTED | Busted | ||
| 35.6 | HSN | HSN | ||
| 35.7 | GameSho | Game Show Central | ||
| 35.8 | Mystery | Ion Mystery |
WPXM-TV shut down its analog signal, onUHF channel 35, on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full-power television stations in the United States totransition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). On February 18, the station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 26 to channel 35.[4] WPXM was the only Miami-licensed station that applied to cease analog transmissions on the original transition date, despite theDTV Delay Act having extended the deadline to June 12.
Includes English-language stations in out-of-state TV markets, but reaching a portion of Florida | ||
| ABC | ||
| CBS | ||
| Fox | ||
| NBC | ||
| The CW | ||
| Ion Television | ||
| Independent | ||
| PBS | ||
| Religious | ||
| Other | ||
| ATSC 3.0 | ||
| ||
