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{{short description|TV station in Miami}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign = WPXM-TV
| city = Miami, Florida
| branding = Ion
| digital = 21 ([[UHF]])
| virtual = 35
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''35.1:''' [[Ion Television]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| owner = [[Ion Media]]
| licensee = Ion Media License Company, [[LLC]]
| location = [[Miami]]–[[Fort Lauderdale, Florida]]
| country = United States
| airdate = {{start date and age|1992|10|p=y}}<ref>The ''Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook'' says October 15, while the ''Television and Cable Factbook'' says October 25.</ref>
| callsign_meaning = Pax Miami
| sister_stations = [[WSFL-TV]]
| former_callsigns = {{ubl|WMLB-TV (1992−1993)|WDLP-TV (1993)|WCTD (1993–1998)}}
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 35 (UHF, 1993–2009)|'''Digital:''' 26 (UHF, 2004–2010), 35 (UHF, 2010–2018)}}
| former_affiliations = {{ubl|[[Independent station|Independent]] (1992–1998)|inTV (1998)}}
| erp = 225 [[kW]]
| haat = {{convert|279|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = 48608
| coordinates = {{Coord|25|57|31|N|80|12|43|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| website = {{URL|https://iontelevision.com/}}
}}
'''WPXM-TV''' (channel 35) is a [[television station]] in [[Miami, Florida]], United States, serving as the market's [[Ion Television]] outlet. It is [[owned and operated]] by the [[Ion Media]] subsidiary of the [[E. W. Scripps Company]] alongside [[independent station]] [[WSFL-TV]] (channel 39), also licensed to Miami. WPXM-TV's offices are located on Northwest 14th Street in [[Sunrise, Florida|Sunrise]], and its transmitter is located in [[Andover, Florida]].
==History==
The station first signed on the air in October 1992 as WMLB-TV. Originally operating as an [[independent station]], the station changed its call letters to WDLP-TV in January 1993, before changing it again to WCTD in December of that year. Channel 35 was acquired by Paxson Communications in 1997. Shortly after the sale was finalized, the station became an affiliate of the Infomall TV Network (inTV), which carried an [[infomercial]] format. On August 31, 1998, the station's call letters were changed to WPXM-TV; that same date, the station became a charter owned-and-operated station of Pax TV (now Ion).
From [[2002 Florida Marlins season|2002]] through the [[2005 Florida Marlins season|2005 season]], WPXM was the [[flagship (broadcasting)|flagship]] broadcast station of the Florida Marlins (now the [[Miami Marlins]]), whose games also aired on then-[[sister station]] [[WPXP-TV]] in [[West Palm Beach]].
==Newscasts==
{{see|WTVJ#News operation}}
From 2001 until 2005, when [[NBC]] entered a [[shared services]] agreement with Pax TV, WPXM aired rebroadcasts of NBC owned-and-operated station [[WTVJ]] (channel 6)'s newscasts.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}
==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The station's signal is [[multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of WPXM-TV<ref>{{Cite web |title=RabbitEars TV Query for WPXM |url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WPXM |access-date=March 28, 2023 |website=[[RabbitEars.info]]}}</ref>
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 35.1
| rowspan=2| [[720p]] || rowspan=8| [[16:9]] || ION || [[Ion Television]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 35.2
| Bounce || [[Bounce TV]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 35.3
| rowspan=6| [[480i]] || Grit || [[Grit (TV network)|Grit]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 35.4
| Laff || [[Laff (TV network)|Laff]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 35.5
| IONPlus || [[Ion Plus]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 35.6
| HSN || [[HSN]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 35.7
| Jewelry || [[Jewelry TV]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 35.8
| Mystery || [[Ion Mystery]]
|}
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
WPXM-TV shut down its analog signal, on [[UHF]] channel 35, on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full-power television stations in the United States to [[Digital television transition in the United States|transition from analog to digital broadcasts]] under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). On February 18, the station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 26 to channel 35.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 29, 2013 |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the Second Rounds |format=PDF |access-date=March 24, 2012}}</ref> WPXM was the only Miami-licensed station that applied to cease analog transmissions on the original transition date, despite the [[DTV Delay Act]] having extended the deadline to June 12.
==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|https://iontelevision.com/}}
{{Miami TV}}
{{ION Florida}}
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[[Category:1992 establishments in Florida]]
[[Category:Bounce TV affiliates]]
[[Category:E. W. Scripps Company television stations]]
[[Category:Grit (TV network) affiliates]]
[[Category:Ion Mystery affiliates]]
[[Category:Ion Plus affiliates]]
[[Category:Ion Television affiliates]]
[[Category:Laff (TV network) affiliates]]
[[Category:Miami Gardens, Florida]]
[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 1992]]
[[Category:Television stations in Miami|PXM-TV]]