WPXB-LD (channel 50) is a low-power religious television station in Daytona Beach, Florida serving the Orlando area, as an owned and operated station of the Daystar Television Network. WPXB-LD's transmitter is located near Indian Lake within the Tiger Bay State Forest.

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

History

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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

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

References

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