WPXP

WPXP-TV (channel 67) is an television station licensed to Lake Worth, Florida, United States, serving the West Palm Beach area as an affiliate of Ion Television. Owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings, the station maintains offices on Banyan Boulevard in West Palm Beach, while its transmitter is located near Greenacres, Florida.

Until 2021, as the Ion owned-and-operated station for West Palm Beach, where Ion's headquarters are located, WPXP was considered one of the network's flagship stations, though it has never originated any content for the national network, either as Pax TV, i: Independent Television, or Ion.

History

The first application for the station was made in 1984, and the WHBI callsign was assigned in June 1987 until the end of 1997. In January 1998, it finally went on-air after more than a decade of modified and expired construction permits, and took its present call letters upon joining the fledgling Pax TV network. All applications prior to 2003 were by Hispanic Broadcasting, Inc., before becoming Paxson West Palm Beach License, Inc. (a holding company, which is common in broadcasting), though there was no application listed to assign the station to another licensee.

WPXP and then-sister station WPXM-TV carried Florida Marlins baseball games from 2002 to 2005.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion

WPXP-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 67, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (sister station WPXM opted to do so on the original transition date of February 17). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 36. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 67, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

WPXP's digital signal has a much greater broadcast range than its now-defunct channel 67 analog signal. The analog transmitter was located within the western part of the city of West Palm Beach, and had a service contour that reached as far north as Port St. Lucie and as far south as Pompano Beach (immediately north of Fort Lauderdale). The digital transmitter is west-southwest of Lake Worth, and its service contour reaches as far north as Okeechobee, Florida, Okeechobee and Fort Pierce, Florida, Fort Pierce, and far south as Kendale Lakes, Florida, Kendale Lakes, including all of Palm Beach County, Florida, Palm Beach, Broward County, Florida, Broward, and Martin County, Florida, Martin counties; and northeast Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade, eastern Hendry County, Florida, Hendry, and southern/central St. Lucie County, Florida, St. Lucie counties.

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References

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Ion Television affiliates
Court TV affiliates
Ion Mystery affiliates
Grit (TV network) affiliates
Defy TV affiliates
Scripps News affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1998
Lake Worth Beach, Florida
Television stations in West Palm Beach, Florida, PXP-TV
1998 establishments in Florida