WPXL

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WPXL
city =
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding = ION Television
analog = 49 (UHF)
digital = 50 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = ION Television
qubo (DT2)
ION Life (DT3)
The Worship Network (DT4)
network =
founded =
airdate = March 19, 1989 (original incarnation)
May 25, 1994 (current incarnation)
location = New Orleans, Louisiana
callsign_meaning = PaX Louisiana
former_callsigns = WCCL (1989-1998)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = ION Media Networks, Inc.
licensee = ION Media New Orleans License, Inc.
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = independent (1989-1990)
silent (1990-1994)
HSN (1994-1998)
Pax TV (1998-2005)
i (2005-2007)
effective_radiated_power = 5000 kW (analog)
1000 kW (digital)
HAAT = 288 m (analog)
272 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 21729
coordinates = coord|29|55|13.1|N|90|1|28.6|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.ionline.tv/ www.ionline.tv]

WPXL is the local ION Television (formerly Pax TV and i) affiliate in New Orleans, Louisiana, owned by ION Media Networks. 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 the spring of 1990 until May 25, 1994, where it was returned to the air by Flinn Broadcasting Corporation. Before Pax TV was born, the station carried Home Shopping Network programming.

After Hurricane Katrina until the end of 2005, WPXL simulcasted NBC affiliate WDSU (channel 6), whose transmitter building in Chalmette, Louisiana was flooded out during the Hurricane Katrina disaster. The station also added the signals for The Worship Network, 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. On March 29, 2008, WPXL was finally able to launch qubo programming on channel 49-2 and ION Life programming on 49-3, which each launched a year and a half after Katrina, as WGNO and WNOL had moved their digital transmissions to WNOL's UHF channel 15.

In mid-August 2007, ION announced that it would be purchasing WPXL and WPXX in Memphis outright from Flinn Broadcasting for $18 million. [http://broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6470612.html] The sale was completed on January 2,2008. [http://www.ionmedia.tv/press/press.cfm?id=73]

External links

* [http://www.ionline.tv/ ION Television site]
*TVQ|WPXL
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