WPXL
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 New Orleans, Louisiana |
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| Branding | ION Television |
| Channels | 49 (UHF) analog, 50 (UHF digital |
| Affiliations | ION Television |
| Owner | Flinn Broadcasting Corporation (operated by ION Media Networks under a time-brokerage agreement) |
| Founded | 1996 (current incarnation) |
| Call letters meaning | W PaX Louisiana |
| Former callsigns | WCCL (until 1998) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (until 1992) HSN (1996-98) Pax (1998-2005) |
| Website | www.ionline.tv |
WPXL is the local ION Television (formerly PAX and i) affiliate in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is owned by Flinn Broadcasting Corporation, but is controlled by ION Media Networks under a time-brokerage agreement. It broadcasts its analog signal on UHF channel 49, and its digital signal on UHF channel 50.
The station was formerly WCCL, an independent station. The station went silent from around 1992-1996, where it was returned to the air by Flinn. Before PAX was born, the station carried Home Shopping Network programming.
After Hurricane Katrina until the end of 2005, WPXL simulcasted NBC affiliate WDSU (channel 6/43), whose transmitter building in Chalmette, Louisiana was flooded out during the Hurricane Katrina disaster. The station also added the signals for Worship, also local Tribune stations WGNO (Channel 26, ABC) and WNOL (Channel 38, CW) to their digital multicasting channels for those in the New Orleans area that can receive digital television signals, this is still in use as of October 2006.
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| Broadcast television in the New Orleans market (Nielsen DMA #54) | ||
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WWL 4 (CBS) - WDSU 6 (NBC) - WVUE 8 (Fox) - WYES 12 (PBS/LPB) - WHNO 20 (LeSEA) - WGNO 26 (ABC) - KFOL-CA 30 / KJUN-CA 7 (Ind) - WLAE 32 (PBS) - WNOL 38 (The CW) - WPXL 49 (ION) - WUPL 54 / WBXN-CA 18 (MNTV) |
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| See also: Broadcast television stations in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Biloxi/Gulfport, Mississippi Markets | ||
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Alexandria market: KNTS-LP 17 (Ind., Natchitoches) |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, and PBS stations in Louisiana | |
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Corporate Leadership: R. Brandon Burgess | Dean M. Goodman | Richard Garcia | Adam K. Weinstein | Tammy G. Hedge | Steven J. Friedman | Stephen P. Appel | Douglas C. Barker | David A. Glenn |
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Broadcast Television Networks: ION Television |
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1These stations are operated by ION under a time brokerage agreement. |
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Annual Revenue: $276.6 million USD (2004) | Employees: 433 (2005) | Stock Symbol: AMEX: ION | Website: www.ionmedia.tv |
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