WPXI-TV
 
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States |
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| Branding |
Channel 11 (general) Channel 11 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Coverage You Can Count On |
| Channels |
Digital: 48 (UHF) Virtual: 11 () |
| Subchannels | 11.1 NBC 11.2 Me-TV 11.3 Laff |
| Translators | 23 (UHF) Uniontown, Pennsylvania 33 (UHF) New Castle, Pennsylvania |
| Affiliations | NBC |
| Owner |
Cox Media Group (WPXI, LLC) |
| Founded | June 1955 |
| First air date | September 1, 1957 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Pittsburgh XI (11 in Roman numerals) |
| Former callsigns | WIIC(-TV) (1957–1981) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 11 (VHF, 1957–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 289 m (948 ft) |
| Facility ID | 73910 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°27′48″N 80°0′16″W / 40.46333°N 80.00444°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WPXI, virtual channel 11 (UHF digital channel 48), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by the Cox Media Group, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises. WPXI's offices and studios are located on Evergreen Road in the Summer Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and its transmitter is located on Television Hill in the Fineview section of the city, on the site of the station's original studio location.
On cable in the Pittsburgh market, WPXI is carried on Comcast channels 12 (channel 10 in Bethel Park) (standard definition) and 811 (high definition), and Verizon FiOS channels 11 (SD) and 511 (HD).
On September 1, 1957, Pittsburgh's second commercial VHF station signed on as WIIC. The station's construction permit was originally issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in June 1955 to WIIC Incorporated – a joint venture of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which owned WWSW radio (970 AM, now WBGG), and Pittsburgh Radio Supply House, the then-owners of WJAS radio (1320 AM). Both radio stations had competed individually for the permit grant along with other applicants. CBS, which was looking to gain its own full-time affiliate in the market, signed a contract with the then-unnamed channel 11 shortly thereafter. Before the "freeze" on television station licenses, the two stations were competing for the channel 10 license originally assigned to Pittsburgh before the FCC reallocated the channels in 1952, with channel 10 going to Altoona; the Hearst Corporation (then-owners of WCAE and eventual owners of WTAE-TV) and two other companies were also applying for the channel 10 license.
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