WPXD-TV
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Ann Arbor/Detroit, Michigan United States |
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| City | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Branding | Ion Television |
| Slogan | Positively Entertaining |
| Channels |
Digital: 50 (UHF) Virtual: 31 () |
| Subchannels | 31.1 - Ion HD (720p) 31.2 - qubo (480i) 31.3 - Ion Life (480i) 31.4 - Ion Shop (480i) 31.5 - QVC 31.6 - HSN |
| Affiliations | Ion Television |
| Owner |
Ion Media Networks, Inc. (Ion Media License Company, LLC) |
| First air date | January 13, 1981 |
| Call letters' meaning |
PaX TV Detroit (reference to former affiliation) |
| Former callsigns | WRHT (January–February 1981) WIHT (February 1981–1989) WBSX (1989–1998) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 31 (UHF, 1981–2009) Digital: 33 (UHF, until 2009) 31 (UHF, 2009–2012) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (1981–1989) Satellite Program Network/Financial News Network/IT (1981–1983) HSN (1989–1998) |
| Transmitter power | 345 kW |
| Height | 328 metres (1,076 ft) |
| Facility ID | 5800 |
| Transmitter coordinates | Coordinates: 42°29′0.9″N 83°18′43.5″W / 42.483583°N 83.312083°W42°29′0.9″N 83°18′43.5″W / 42.483583°N 83.312083°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | iontelevision.com |
WPXD-TV, virtual channel 31 (UHF digital channel 50), is an ION Television owned-and-operated television station serving Detroit, Michigan, United States that is licensed to Ann Arbor. The station is owned by ION Media Networks. WPXD maintains studios and transmitter facilities are located on West 11 Mile Road in Southfield.
In 1973, Ann Arbor resident Gershom Morningstar acquired a license from the FCC to operate a local station on UHF channel 31, but lack of funds meant that Morningstar was unable to construct the station. In January 1980, Morningstar sold the license to Satellite Syndicated Systems (SSS) of Oklahoma. SSS gave the station the call letters WRHT, with studios in Chelsea, Michigan.
WRHT signed on the air on January 13, 1981, originally operating as an independent station. The first program broadcast on the station was a college basketball game between the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Baylor Bears from the TVS Television Network, a national syndicated sports network. This was done largely to test the satellite equipment, which would be utilized further after the switch to In-Home Theater (see below). Most of channel 31's early programming, was either locally produced or outsourced by other production companies; it also carried business news programming from the Financial News Network (which later merged with CNBC in 1989), as well as some programs from the Satellite Program Network.
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