WCPX-LD,

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48 ( UHF digital channel 25), is a low-power

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to Columbus, Ohio, United States. The station is owned by

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. WCPX-LD's transmitter is located on East Naghten Street in downtown Columbus. Programming is currently unknown.

History

WCPX ceased operations on channel 48 due to the impending move of full-power WSYX to broadcast its digital signal on channel 48. Because low-power television is a "secondary" service, a full-power station can displace a low-power station to improve the full-power station's coverage.

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affiliate

WSYX WSYX (channel 6) is a television station in Columbus, Ohio, United States, affiliated with ABC, MyNetworkTV and Fox. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to TBD station WTTE (channel 28, owned by Cunningha ...

(channel 6) received permission in 2009 to move its digital broadcast from VHF channel 13 to channel 48 so as to better replicate WSYX's original analog full-power coverage. Prior to the station joining

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in January 2008, the station was a

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of WSFJ-TV, at that time an

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affiliate; even though network owner

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did not own WSFJ, it did own WCPX-LP. Until 1995, the station (as W62BE, though it branded as "WCLS-TV") was an independent station operating on analog channel 62, with studios located in the

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until 1994, when studios and office was moved to nearby Grandview Heights. Between March and June 2010, WCPX broadcast Azteca América programming on WCSN-LD1. In June 2010, Columbus Hispanic Media, LLC and Columbus Television, LLC (owners of WCSN-LD) ended their relationship as Columbus Hispanic Media, LLC's owners struggled to determine their company's direction and future after the untimely death of founder Stephen Marriott. WCPX holds a construction permit to build digital facilities on channel 25. WCPX had an application to

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to digital on channel 48 that was dismissed when WSYX received authorization to move to channel 48. WCPX has also signed up for an affiliation with

Mexicanal Mexicanal is a Mexican-based Spanish-language pay television network launched the August 23, 2005 by Castalia Communications and Cablecom. The network's studios and broadcast center is based in the Mexican city of San Luis Potosí. Programming ...

, a Spanish-language television channel for Mexican-Americans; the station's plans for the channel have yet to be announced.TV Newsday: "Mexicanal Poised for Broadcast Breakout", 28 October 2008.
/ref> Mexicanal is also seen on WCSN-LD since March 15, 2011. On March 1, 2011, Azteca América disaffiliated with WCPX-LP, moving its programming to WQMC-LD2.

References

External links

Columbus Dispatch article on the station's launch
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wcpx-Ld CPX-LD Television channels and stations established in 1985 1985 establishments in Ohio Low-power television stations in the United States SagamoreHill Broadcasting