WYPX

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WYPX
Amsterdam / Gloversville / Albany / Schenectady / Troy, New York
Branding	ION Television
Channels	55 (UHF) analog, 50 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	ION Television
Owner	ION Media Networks
Founded	1986
Call letters meaning	W AlbanY (or Mohawk ValleY or New York) PAX
Former callsigns	WOCD
Former affiliations	Independent (1986-1998)
Transmitter Power	5 MW (analog) 450 kW (digital)
Website	www.ionline.tv

WYPX is the affiliate of the ION Television (formerly PAX and i) network in the New York state's Capital District and Mohawk Valley, licensed to Amsterdam, New York with offices in Guilderland, New York. The station broadcasts at a power of 5 megawatts ERP from a transmitter located near New York State Route 30 near the Montgomery/Fulton County line. WYPX signed on the air in 1986 as an independent station under the call letters WOCD, but faced financial troubles from the outset (similar troubles led to the sudden sale of rival WUSV shortly after WOCD's signon). After a 1991 deal that would have relaunched the station as WNSI fell through, WOCD was sold to Cornerstone Television and became a religious station. The second incarnation of WOCD had problems getting cable carriage in much of the market which combined with the looming conversion to digital television led the station to be sold again. The station is carried on Time Warner Cable in much of the Albany market on channel 20. WYPX can also be seen on the eastern fringes of the Utica market.

In 1997, Paxson Communications bought WOCD from Cornerstone and eventually used it to launch the PAX-TV network. The call sign was changed to WYPX when the PAX network launched. However, the new calls confused some people as there was a radio station with a similar call sign in the Albany market. From 2001 until 2004, WYPX was run in a shared services agreement with NBC affiliate WNYT which included WNYT selling time for WYPX and replays of news and public affairs programming.

In early 2005, WYPX-DT signed on the air on UHF channel 50 and broadcasts at 450 kW from a transmitter near Florida, New York.

[edit] External links

• ION Television website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WYPX

Preceded by WOCD

WYPX 1998-present

Succeeded by Incumbent

Coordinates: 42° 59' 04" N 74° 10' 56" W

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Broadcast television in the Albany / Schenectady / Troy market (Nielsen DMA #56)

Local television stations WVBK-CA 2 (RSN) - WRGB 6 (CBS, MNTV via WNYA on DT2) - WNCE-CA 8 (A1) - WTEN 10 / WCDC 19 (ABC) - WNYT 13 (NBC, WX+ on DT2) - WNYA-CA 15 / WNYA 51 (MNTV) - WMHT 17 (PBS) - WXXA 23 (FOX) - WVBG-LP 25 (RSN) - WNGN-LP 35 / WNGX-LP 42 (FamilyNet) - WCWN 45 (The CW, The Tube on DT2) - W52DF 52 / WTBY 54 (TBN) - WYPX 55 (ION) - W58CX 58 (3ABN)
Local cable television channels TW3 - TWTV7 - Capital News 9
Defunct television channels WEDG 4 (UPN) - WCDB 29 (CBS)
See also Broadcast television in the New York City and Syracuse markets and for radio stations in the area see Albany AM and Albany FM.