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| affiliations = '''51.1:''' [[Ion (TV network)|Ion]]<br>'''51.2:''' [[Court TV]]<br>'''51.3:''' [[Grit (TV network)|Grit]]<br>'''51.4:''' [[Laff (TV network)|Laff]]<br>'''51.5:''' [[QVC]]<br>'''51.6:''' [[HSN]] |
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DEFY TV ( Coming Soon).<br>'''51.6:''' [[HSN]] |
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| airdate = {{start date and age|1999|6|17|p=y}} |
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| location = [[Batavia, New York|Batavia]]/[[Buffalo, New York]] |
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City | Batavia, New York |
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Branding | Ion |
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Affiliations | 51.1: Ion 51.2: Court TV 51.3: Grit 51.4: Laff 51.5: QVC 51.6: HSN |
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First air date | June 17, 1999 (25 years ago) (1999-06-17) |
Former call signs | WAQF (1996–1998) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 51 (UHF, 1999–2009) Digital: 53 (UHF, until 2009) 23 (UHF, 2009–2019) |
DT2: Qubo (until 2021) DT3: Ion Plus (until 2021) DT4: Ion Shop (until 2021) | |
Call sign meaning | PaX J (disambiguation from other Ion affiliates) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 2325 |
ERP | 500 kW[2] |
HAAT | 374.4 m (1,228 ft)[2] |
Transmitter coordinates | 42°46′58″N 78°27′27″W / 42.78278°N 78.45750°W / 42.78278; -78.45750[2] |
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WPXJ-TV, virtual channel 51 (UHF digital channel 24), is an Ion-affiliated television station serving Buffalo, New York, United States that is licensedtoBatavia. The station is owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings. WPXJ-TV's offices are located on Exchange Street in Buffalo, and its transmitter is located in Bennington, New York.[2]
Until August 2019, WPXJ-TV's transmitter was based at Pavilion, approximately halfway between the station's two target cities, Buffalo and Rochester; it was the only station in Western New York to serve both markets with the same signal (WNYB still serves both markets, but relies on translators and cable carriage to do so), although what little local programming the station has carried has traditionally favored Buffalo, and Ion now maintains a separate Rochester affiliation on the fourth digital subchannel of WHEC-TV.
The station signed on the air on June 17, 1999 as an owned-and-operated station of Ion predecessor Pax TV, and was founded by Paxson Communications. WPXJ-TV was Paxson's second effort at launching a television station in Western New York; the first was Jamestown-based WNYP-TV (channel 26), an affiliateofCanadian television network CTV, which Pax founder Lowell W. "Bud" Paxson majority owned from 1966 to 1969. In February 2006, WPXJ-TV was added to Dish Network's Buffalo channel lineup on channel 51.
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel | Video | Aspect | Short name | Programming[3] |
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51.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion |
51.2 | 480i | CourtTV | Court TV | |
51.3 | Grit | Grit | ||
51.4 | Laff | Laff | ||
51.5 | QVC | QVC | ||
51.6 | HSN | HSN |
WPXJ-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 51, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal moved from its pre-transition UHF channel 53,[4] which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to UHF channel 23 (formerly allocated to the analog signal of CW affiliate WNLO, which continues to use channel 23 as its virtual channel). Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 51.
For a time, WPXJ-TV carried a rebroadcast of newscasts from NBC affiliate WGRZ (channel 2), as well as a live 10:00 p.m. newscast produced by that station (this was part of a nationwide initiative for Pax affiliates to carry news and local content from NBC stations). Channel 2 News First at Ten was the first primetime newscast in the Buffalo market (as previously noted, virtually none of the newscast's content was geared toward Rochester, despite WGRZ having a large sister news bureau in that city). It was never a ratings contender and consistently lost the ratings battle with WNLO (channel 23)'s newscast in the same time slot, which had debuted a few weeks later but had been planned for months.
After Pax ended its local news partnerships with NBC in 2005, WGRZ later established a news share agreement with WNYO-TV (channel 49) to produce a half-hour 10:00 p.m. newscast for that station in April 2006, which effectively replaced WNYO-TV's in-house newscast that was canceled the month before in relation to the shutdown of owner Sinclair Broadcast Group's News Central division; that newscast was moved to Fox affiliate WUTV (channel 29) on April 8, 2013.[5]
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Ion Television network affiliates licensed to and serving the state of New York
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