WPXM-TV


WPXM-TV is a television station in Miami, Florida, United States, serving as the market's Ion Television outlet. It is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company alongside independent station WSFL-TV. WPXM-TV's offices are located on Northwest 14th Street in Sunrise, and its transmitter is located in Andover, Florida.
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History

The station first signed on the air in October 1992 as WMLB-TV. Originally operating as an independent station, the station changed its call letters to WDLP-TV in January 1993, before changing it again to WCTD in December of that year. Channel 35 was acquired by Paxson Communications in 1997. Shortly after the sale was finalized, the station became an affiliate of the Infomall TV Network, which carried an infomercial format. On August 31, 1998, the station's call letters were changed to WPXM-TV; that same date, the station became a charter owned-and-operated station of Pax TV.
From 2002 [Florida Marlins season|2002] through the 2005 season, WPXM was the flagship broadcast station of the Florida Marlins, whose games also aired on then-sister station WPXP-TV in West Palm Beach.

Newscasts

From 2001 until 2005, when NBC entered a shared services agreement with Pax TV, WPXM aired rebroadcasts of NBC owned-and-operated station WTVJ 's newscasts.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:
ChannelRes.AspectShort nameProgramming
35.1720p16:9IONIon Television
35.2720p16:9BounceBounce TV
35.3480i16:9GritGrit
35.4480i16:9LaffLaff
35.5480i16:9BUSTEDBusted
35.6480i16:9HSNHSN
35.7480i16:9GameShoGame Show Central
35.8480i16:9MysteryIon Mystery

Analog-to-digital conversion

WPXM-TV shut down its analog signal, on UHF channel 35, on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full-power television stations in the United States to Digital television transition in [the United States|transition from analog to digital broadcasts] under federal mandate. On February 18, the station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 26 to channel 35. WPXM was the only Miami-licensed station that applied to cease analog transmissions on the original transition date, despite the DTV Delay Act having extended the deadline to June 12.