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City | Batavia, New York |
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Branding | Ion |
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History | |
First air date | June 17, 1999 |
Former call signs | WAQF (1996–1998) |
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Call sign meaning | Pax J (disambiguation from other Ion affiliates) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 2325 |
ERP | 500 kW[2] |
HAAT | 372.53 m (1,222 ft)[2] |
Transmitter coordinates | 42°46′53.5″N 78°27′25.7″W / 42.781528°N 78.457139°W[2] |
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Website | iontelevision |
WPXJ-TV (channel 51) is a television station licensed to Batavia, New York, United States, serving the Buffalo area as an affiliate of Ion Television. Owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings, the station maintains offices on Exchange Street in Buffalo, and its transmitter is located in Cowlesville, New York.[2]
Until August 2019, WPXJ-TV's transmitter was based at Pavilion, approximately halfway between the station's two target cities, Buffalo and Rochester; it was the only station in Western New York to serve both markets with the same signal (WNYB still serves both markets, but relies on translators and cable carriage to do so), although what little local programming the station has carried has traditionally favored Buffalo, and Ion now maintains a separate Rochester affiliation on the fourth digital subchannel of WHEC-TV.