WPFO
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Waterville/Portland, Maine United States |
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| Branding | Fox 23 (general) Fox 23 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
More Funny, Fox 23 On Your Side (newscasts) |
| Channels | Digital: 23 (UHF) |
| Subchannels | 23.1 Fox 23.2 Charge! 23.3 Comet |
| Owner | Corporate Media Consultants Group (Power Television International (51%) / Max Media (49%); sale to Cunningham Broadcasting pending; to remain operated by Sinclair thereafter.) (CMCG Portland License, LLC) |
| Operator | Sinclair Broadcast Group |
| First air date | August 27, 1999 |
| Call letters' meaning | We're Portland's FOx |
| Sister station(s) | WGME-TV |
| Former callsigns | WMPX-TV (1999–2003) |
| Former channel number(s) | 23 (UHF analog, 1999–2009) |
| Former affiliations | Pax (1999–2003) |
| Transmitter power | 390 kW |
| Height | 331 m |
| Facility ID | 84088 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°9′15.3″N 70°0′35.2″W / 44.154250°N 70.009778°W |
| Website | fox23maine.com |
WPFO is a Fox-affiliated television station whose signal covers some parts of southern Maine and northern New Hampshire; it is licensed to Waterville, Maine. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 23 from a transmitter on Oak Hill in Litchfield near the Androscoggin-Kennebec county line. Owned by Corporate Media Consultants Group (itself 51% owned by Power Television International and 49% owned by Max Media), the station is operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of WGME-TV. WPFO's studios are co-located with WGME at Northport Business Park in Portland, Maine.
The station began broadcasting on August 27, 1999 as WMPX-TV and was a Pax (now Ion Television) affiliate owned by Paxson Communications. Paxson sold the channel in December 2002 to Corporate Media Consultants Group who changed the call sign to the current WPFO. The new calls reflected an affiliation change to Fox, which took place in April 2003, filling a gap created in Fall 2001 when WPXT switched to The WB. In July 2007, this station debuted a new logo and updated website. The website's design was outsourced to Fox Interactive Media which also develops websites for Fox's owned-and-operated stations. WPFO switched website providers to Broadcast Interactive Media in March 2010. Currently WPFO's website provider is Sinclair Interactive Media.
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