WPXB-LD

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WPXB-LD
Channels
BrandingDaystar
Programming
AffiliationsDaystar
Ownership
Owner
  • Word of God Fellowship
  • (Word of God Fellowship, Inc.)
History
First air date
December 4, 1998 (25 years ago) (1998-12-04)
Former call signs
W57CV (1998—2002)
WPXB-LP (2002—2009)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
42 (UHF, 1989–2000)
57 (UHF, 2000—2008)
Digital:
50 (UHF, 2008–2021)
Unknown (1998—19??)
Pax TV (19??—20??)
Ion Television (20??—2014)
Call sign meaning
W PaX Daytona Beach
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID10321
ClassLD
ERP15 kW
HAAT117.68 m (386.1 ft)
Transmitter coordinates29°10′25.3″N 81°9′25.2″W / 29.173694°N 81.157000°W / 29.173694; -81.157000
Links
Public license information
LMS
Websitedaystar.com

WPXB-LD, virtual channel 50 and UHF digital channel 17, is a low-powered Daystar owned-and-operated station licensed to Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. The station is owned by Word of God Fellowship, parent company of the Daystar Television Network. WPXB-LD's transmitter is located near Indian Lake within the Tiger Bay State Forest.

History

The station signed on on December 4, 1998, as W42AM, later W57CV. It changed call letters to WPXB-LP in 2002.

On July 8, 2009, WPXB flash-cut its signal to digital as WPXB-LD.

Sometime until 2014, WPXB-LD served as a translator of Orlando-based Pax TV (now Ion Television) owned-and-operated station WOPX-TV (channel 56) that relayed WOPX's programming to areas of east-central Florida that received a marginal to non-existent signal from WOPX, although there were significant overlap between the two stations' contours otherwise. WPXB-LD was a straight simulcast of WOPX-TV; on-air references to WPXB-LD were limited to Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-mandated hourly station identifications during programming. Aside from the transmitter, WPXB-LD did not maintain any physical presence locally in Daytona Beach.

On December 15 of that year, West Palm Beach-based Ion Media Networks, owner of WOPX-TV, reached a deal to donate WPXB-LD to Word of God Fellowship, parent company of the Daystar television network

Digital channel

Channel Video Aspect Short name Programming[2]
50.1 1080i 16:9 WPXB-LD Main WPXB-LD programming / Daystar

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WPXB-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WPXB

External links

Main Daystar website