WYPX
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This station is not to be confused with WPYX, an unrelated classic rock station serving the Albany and Glens Falls markets.
WYPX is the affiliate of the i (formerly PAX) 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.
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.
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WNCE-CA 8 (A1) -
WTEN 10/WCDC 19 (ABC) -
WNYT 13 (NBC) -
WNYA-CA 15/WNYA 51 (UPN/MNTV) -
WMHT 17 (PBS) -
WXXA 23 (FOX) -
WVBG-LP 25 (RSN) -
WNGN-LP 35/WNGX-LP 42 (FamilyNet) -
WCWN 45 (WB/CW) -
W52DF 52/WTBY 54 (TBN) -
WYPX 55 (i) -
W58CX 58 (3ABN)
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Religious Stations:
WEBR-CA 17 (GCN, ) -
WNYB 26 (TBN / TCT, ) -
WNGN-LP 35 / WNGX-LP 42 (FamilyNet, ) -
WTBY 54 (TBN, ) Spanish-Language Stations WNYN-LP 39 (Azteca América, ) - WNYI 52 (Univision, ) - WFTY 67 (TeleFutura, ) i Network Affiliates WPXN 31 () - WPXJ 51 () - WYPX 55 () - WSPX 56 () Other Stations: WNCE-CA 8 (A1, ) - WNYE 25 (Independent, ) - WVBG-LP 25 (RSN, ) - WRNN-DT 48 (Independent, ) - WVVH-LP 50 (A1, ) - WLNY-DT 57 (Independent, ) - WNGS 67 (RTN, ) | |
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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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1These stations are operated by ION under a time brokerage agreement. 2This station will affiliate with My Network TV September 2006 3This station will become solely an i O&O when The WB closes September 2006 |
| Annual Revenue: 6.6 million USD (2004) | Employees: 433 (2005) | Stock Symbol: AMEX: [ION] | Website: [www.ionmedia.tv] |
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