WPXP
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West Palm Beach, Florida United States |
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| City | Lake Worth, Florida |
| Branding | ION Television |
| Slogan | Positively Entertaining |
| Channels |
Digital: 36 (UHF) Virtual: 67 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 67.1 Ion Television 67.2 Qubo 67.3 ION Life 67.4 Ion Shop 67.5 QVC 67.6 HSN |
| Affiliations | Ion Television |
| Owner |
Ion Media Networks, Inc. (Ion Media West Palm Beach License, Inc.) |
| First air date | 1998 |
| Call letters' meaning | PaX West Palm Beach |
| Sister station(s) |
WPXM-TV WPTV |
| Former callsigns | WHBI (unconstructed, 1987–1997) |
| Former channel number(s) | 67 (UHF analog, 1998–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 385 m |
| Facility ID | 27290 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 26°35′20″N 80°12′44″W / 26.58889°N 80.21222°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.ionline.tv |
WPXP-TV is the Ion Television affiliate for West Palm Beach, Florida, licensed to nearby Lake Worth. The station is owned and operated by West Palm Beach-based ION Media Networks, and operates a digital TV signal on channel 36. Through the use of , digital television receivers display WPXP's virtual channel as 67.
Its digital signal has a much greater broadcast range than its now-defunct channel 67 analog signal. The analog station 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 and Pompano Beach (immediately north of Fort Lauderdale). The digital station is west-southwest of Lake Worth, and its service area includes as far north as Okeechobee and Fort Pierce, and far south as Kendale Lakes, including all of Palm Beach, Broward, and Martin counties; and northeast Miami-Dade, eastern Hendry, and southern/central St. Lucie counties.
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 erstwhile Pax TV network. All applications prior to 2003 were by Hispanic Broadcasting, Inc., before becoming Paxson West Palm Beach Licanse, Inc. (a holding company, which is common in broadcasting), though there was no application listed to assign the station to another licensee.
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