Callsign: | WPXB-LD |
Location: | Daytona Beach, Florida |
Country: | United States |
Branding: | Daystar |
Digital: | 17 (UHF) |
Virtual: | 50 |
Affiliations: | Daystar |
Owner: | Word of God Fellowship |
Licensee: | Word of God Fellowship, Inc. |
Former Callsigns: | W57CV (19982002) WPXB-LP (20022009) |
Former Channel Numbers: | Analog: 42 (UHF, 1989–2000) 57 (UHF, 20002008) Digital: 50 (UHF, 2008–2021) |
Former Affiliations: | Unknown (199819??) Pax TV (19??20??) Ion Television (20??2014) |
Erp: | 15 kW |
Haat: | 117.68m (386.09feet) |
Class: | LD |
Facility Id: | 10321 |
Coordinates: | 29.1737°N -81.157°W |
Licensing Authority: | FCC |
WPXB-LD, virtual channel 50 and UHF digital channel 17, is a low-powered Daystar owned-and-operated station licensed to Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. The station is owned by Word of God Fellowship, parent company of the Daystar Television Network. WPXB-LD's transmitter is located near Indian Lake within the Tiger Bay State Forest.
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