WPXL

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WPXL
New Orleans, Louisiana
Branding	i
Channels	49 (UHF) analog, 50 (UHF digital
Affiliations	i
Owner	Flinn Broadcasting Corporation (operated by ION Media Networks under a time-brokerage agreement)
Founded	1996 (current incarnation)
Call letters meaning	W PaX Louisiana
Former callsigns	WCGL (until 1998)
Former affiliations	Independent (until 1992) HSN (1996-98) Pax (1998-2005)
Website	www.paxneworleans.tv www.ionline.tv

WPXL is the local i Network (formerly PAX) affiliate in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is owned by Flinn Broadcasting Corporation, but is controlled by ION Media Networks under a time-brokerage agreement. 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 around 1992-1996, where it was returned to the air by Flinn. Before PAX was born, the station carried Home Shopping Network programming.

After Hurricane Katrina until the end of 2005, WPXL simulcasted NBC affiliate WDSU (channel 6/43), whose transmitter building in Chalmette, Louisiana was flooded out during the Hurricane Katrina disaster. The station also added the signals for Worship, 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, this is still in use as of October 2006.

[edit] External links

• Schedule page on ionline.tv
• i Network
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WPXL

Broadcast television in the New Orleans market  (Nielsen DMA #54)
WWL 4 (CBS) - WDSU 6 (NBC) - WVUE 8 (Fox) - WYES 12 (PBS) - WHNO 20 (LeSEA) - WGNO 26 (ABC) - KFOL-CA 30 / KJUN-CA 7 (Ind) - WLAE 32 (PBS) - WNOL 38 (The CW) - WPXL 49 (i) - WUPL 54 / WBXN-CA 18 (MNTV)
Local cable television channels
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