WPXO-LD,

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34 (

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channel 4), is a low-powered

América TeVé WJAN-CD (channel 41) is a low-power, class A Spanish-language independent station licensed to Miami, Florida, United States. Owned by América CV Station Group, Inc., it is sister station to WFUN-LD (channel 48). The two stations share studi ...

- affiliated

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to East Orange,

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, United States and serving the

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television market. The station is owned by Caribevision Holdings, Inc. WPXO-LD's transmitter is located at the

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History

WPXO originally began as a 24-hour music channel called The Box on channel 23 with the call letters W23BA. In 1996, the station was sold to

Paxson Communications Ion Media (formerly known as Paxson Communications Corporation and Ion Media Networks) was an American broadcasting company that owned and operated over 71 television stations in most major American markets (through its television stations group ...

from Craig L. Fox, which made it a translator for its station in

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, WHAI-TV. After Paxson acquired

WPXN-TV WPXN-TV (channel 31) is a television station in New York City, airing programming from the Ion Television network. Owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E.W. Scripps Company, the station maintains offices on Seventh Avenue ...

to serve as its New York outlet, the company sold off the Bridgeport station (which has since become

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) and made W23BA a translator of WPXN. The following year, due to potential future interference from WHSI-TV (now

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), who was assigned channel 23 for its digital signal, it moved to channel 34. On

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, the

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facilities of WPXN, as well as six other New York City television stations and several radio stations, were destroyed when two hijacked airplanes crashed into and destroyed the World Trade Center towers. The next day, the

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(FCC) authorized W23BA to temporarily move its signal to channel 31, boost its power to 240 kW, and change its call letters to W31CK to replace WPXN's signal. When WPXN-TV returned to the air with a new transmitter on the

in 2002, W31CK's signal moved back to channel 34 and was assigned W34CP as its new call letters. A year later, the station became WPXO-LP. In August 2007, WPXO was sold to Caribevision Station Group, LLC. It re-launched on September 11, 2007, as an affiliate of new network CaribeVision.Turner, Cynthia (September 11, 2007). Cynopsis 9/11/07. ''Cynthia Turner's Cynopsis - Multi-Cultural and International Edition'', accessed on September 11, 2007

/ref> The station's programming consisted mainly of Argentina, Argentinian and

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ian

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s (''Yago, pasión morena'', ''Mi primer amor'' -originally known in Argentina as ''Romeo y Julieta''-, etc.), talk shows (''Margarita, te voy a contar''),

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s (''

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'', ''Poné a Francella''), infomercials during the mornings and

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cartoons on weekends. During the week of May 4, 2009, WPXO-LP turned off its analog signal on channel 34 and began test broadcasts on digital channel 34, and as of late May, WPXO has been transmitting its programming full-time on digital channel 34. On July 31, 2012, the CaribeVision network was dissolved and the station became a charter affiliate of

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, which started broadcasting the next day; to provide full-market coverage of the station, it was also simulcast on

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-owned WWOR-DT4. The station was added to

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Verizon Fios and

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. The network was renamed MundoMax in 2015 after Fox left the network's partnership; FTS ended the simulcast on WWOR-DT4 shortly thereafter. WPXO-LD's affiliation with MundoMax ended on August 1, 2016. At that time, América Tevé, which had been seen on the station's second digital subchannel, was moved to WPXO's primary channel. MundoMax did not have an affiliate in New York for the last four months of the network's existence; the network ceased operations on November 30, 2016. The station was licensed to move its signal to digital channel 4 (the former analog channel allocation of

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) effective September 6, 2017.

Digital television

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* {{TV Stations New Jersey PXO-LD PXO-LD Television channels and stations established in 1993 Spanish-language television stations in New Jersey Spanish-language television stations in New York (state) Low-power television stations in the United States 1993 establishments in New Jersey