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| City | Amsterdam, New York |
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First air date | December 14, 1987 (1987-12-14) |
Former call signs | WOCD (1987-1998) |
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Call sign meaning | "Pax" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 13933 |
| ERP | 600kW[2] |
| HAAT | 294.47 m (966 ft)[2] |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°38′13″N74°0′3″W / 42.63694°N 74.00083°W /42.63694; -74.00083[2] |
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| Website | iontelevision |
WYPX-TV (channel 55) is atelevision station licensed toAmsterdam, New York, United States, serving theCapital District as an affiliate ofIon Television. Owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings, the station has offices on Charles Boulevard inGuilderland, and its transmitter is located in theHelderberg Escarpment inNew Scotland.
The station began broadcasting in 1987 as anindependent station under thecall letters WOCD. It was owned by Amsterdam Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Coit Services ofSan Francisco, and was leased to Christian Community Television (CCT) ofSchenectady, New York. CCT faced financial troubles from the outset, and they soon fell behind on their payments, so Amsterdam Broadcasting reassumed control of the station.[3] The station went dormant in 1989, but on July 3, 1991, Coit sold the station toTennessee TV executive Wade Griffith for $1.8 million. Griffith intended to relaunch the station as WNSI, but the deal fell through, and WOCD was sold toPittsburgh-based religious broadcasterCornerstone Television for $375,000 on May 8, 1992.[4] The second incarnation of WOCD had problems getting cable carriage in much of the market, which, combined with the looming conversion to digital television, led the station to be sold again.
In 1996,Paxson Communications bought WOCD from Cornerstone, moved the station's offices fromScotia, New York, to Guilderland, and made the station an outlet for the Infomall Television Network (inTV).[3] The call sign was changed to WYPX on January 13, 1998; however, the new calls confused some people, as there was aradio station with a similar call sign in theAlbany market.[5] WYPX became a charter station for the Pax TV network when it launched on August 31, 1998.[6] WYPX also added a secondary affiliation withUPN on October 5, 1998, airing the network's programming in late-night hours following Pax's prime time programming.[7]WVBG-LP (channel 25), a low-power station in Albany, also joined UPN as a primary affiliate the same day; the affiliation deal with WYPX was made before the network agreed to affiliate with WVBG (as Albany had no UPN affiliate at the time, though area cable systems importedWSBK-TV fromBoston).[8] WYPX retained its secondary UPN affiliation despite WVBG's affiliation;[8] however, UPN programming disappeared from channel 55 in 1999.[9]
In 2001, WYPX entered into ajoint sales agreement withHubbard Broadcasting, owner ofNBC affiliateWNYT (channel 13); under this arrangement, WNYT sold advertising time on WYPX, while WYPX aired replays of WNYT's news and public affairs programming.[10] Paxson terminated all joint sales agreements involving its stations in June 2005 as part of its relaunch of Pax TV as i: Independent Television.[11]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 55.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
| 55.2 | 480i | Bounce | Bounce TV | |
| 55.3 | CourtTV | Court TV | ||
| 55.4 | Laff | Laff | ||
| 55.5 | IONPlus | Ion Plus | ||
| 55.6 | BUSTED | Busted | ||
| 55.7 | GameSho | Game Show Central | ||
| 55.8 | HSN | HSN | ||
| 55.9 | QVC | QVC |
WYPX-DT signed on the air on UHF channel 50 and broadcasts at 450 kW from the same transmitter site in early 2005. WYPX-TV requested permission from theFCC to shut down its analog signal on channel 55 so that the bandwidth could be used forQualcomm'sMediaFLO service. Qualcomm had made deals with other stations on channel 55, includingWLNY-TV inRiverhead, New York, to shut down analog so that they could launch their new multimedia offering on April 12, 2007. It was granted permission by the FCC to shut down its analog broadcast, surrender its analog license, and operate as a digital-only station on channel 50 on September 6, 2007. The station shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 55, on September 28, 2007. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 50, usingvirtual channel 55.[13][14]
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