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| Branding | WFXZ 24 |
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| Affiliations | 24.1: Biz TV |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | WGBH Educational Foundation |
| History | |
| Founded | November 30, 1989 |
First air date | November 9, 2000 (2000-11-09) |
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| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 64833 |
| Class | CD |
| ERP | 34kW |
| HAAT | 362.7 m (1,190 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°18′10.7″N71°13′4.9″W / 42.302972°N 71.218028°W /42.302972; -71.218028 |
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| Website | wfxz |
WFXZ-CD (channel 24) is aClass A television station inBoston, Massachusetts, United States. The station is owned by theWGBH Educational Foundation.[2] WFXZ-CD's studios are located inWoburn.
Under achannel sharing arrangement, WFXZ-CD shares transmitter facilities with co-ownedPBS member stationWGBH-TV (channel 2) on Cabot Street inNeedham. Despite WFXZ-CD legally holding alow-power Class A license, it transmits using WGBH-TV's full-power spectrum. This ensures complete reception across the Bostontelevision market.
The station'sconstruction permit was originally granted on November 30, 1989, as W29BA, operating on channel 29, which would be licensed to nearbyLawrence.[3] However, by the time finally it signed on the air with ahome shopping service in early 2000, it had moved to channel 24, was licensed to Boston and adopted the W24CMcall sign.[4]
A few months later, channel 24 changed its call letters to WVXN-LP. In 2001, the station was upgraded toClass A status as WVXN-CA and dropped home shopping programming in favor of affiliating withMTV2.[5] The station changed its callsign to WFXZ-CA in 2003. In July 2006, the station became the Boston affiliate of theAzteca América network.[6]
WFXZflash-cut its signal to digital transmission in 2010. Longtime owner Randolph Weigner agreed to sell WFXZ to Prime Time Partners in December 2011.[2] The station became a charterMundoFox affiliate when the network formally launched on August 13, 2012,[7] with Azteca America programming moving to its seconddigital subchannel; it returned to primary status early on December 1, 2016, due to MundoMax ending operations (shortly afterFox International Channels dropped out of the joint venture in 2015). During its affiliations with MundoFox/MundoMax and Azteca América, WFXZ-CD was carried onXfinitydigital channels 721 and 981, andVerizon FiOS channel 20. A third subchannel,c. 2014, carriedHope Channel.[8]
In the FCC'sincentive auction, WFXZ-CD sold its spectrum for $63,949,770 and indicated that it would enter into a post-auction channel sharing agreement.[9] On September 8, 2017, the station entered into a channel sharing agreement withWGBH-TV (channel 2); concurrently, Prime Time Partners agreed to donate the WFXZ license to theWGBH Educational Foundation.[10][11] WFXZ shut down its UHF digital channel 24 transmitter on December 3, 2017, and began channel-sharing on WGBH-TV's channel 19 transmitter;[12] WGBH's acquisition of the station was completed on December 21, 2017,[13] at which point the station dropped Azteca América for BizTV. Concurrently, the station's carriage on Xfinity and Verizon FiOS was discontinued.
| License | Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| WGBH-TV | 2.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WGBH-HD | PBS |
| 44.1 | WGBX-HD | PBS (WGBX-TV) | |||
| 66.5 | 480i | 16:9 | ON AIR | Infomercials (WUNI) | |
| WFXZ-CD | 24.1 | 480i | 16:9 | WFXZ | Biz Television |
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