WPXN-TV, which broadcasts on channel 31 in New York City, is the flagship station of the Ion Television network, formerly known as Pax TV and i.
The City of New York, which was one of the country's first municipalities to enter into broadcasting with the 1924 sign-on of WNYC radio, was granted a commercial television license in 1952. Nine years later, on November 5, 1961, WUHF took to the air for the first time. Through the Municipal Broadcasting...
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WPXN-TV, which broadcasts on channel 31 in New York City, is the flagship station of the Ion Television network, formerly known as Pax TV and i.
The City of New York, which was one of the country's first municipalities to enter into broadcasting with the 1924 sign-on of WNYC radio, was granted a commercial television license in 1952. Nine years later, on November 5, 1961, WUHF took to the air for the first time. Through the Municipal Broadcasting System, which held the channel 31 license, the City (led by then-mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr.) used WUHF as an experiment to determine the viability of UHF broadcasts within an urban environment. Some of the early programming on WUHF included educational films and college-level telecourses and, reportedly, a nightly rundown of the New York City Police Department's "wanted" criminals list.
After a year of test broadcasting the station became a full-time operation on November 1, 1962, with new call letters WNYC-TV to match its sister radio...
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