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WXXA-TV is the FOX-affiliated television station for the Capital District of New York State and Western New England that is licensed to Albany. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 from a transmitter on Mount Pinnacle in New Scotland. Owned by Newport Television, the station has studios on Corporate Circle on the border of Albany suburbs Colonie and Guilderland. WXXA broadcasts "Untamed Sports TV" on its second digital subchannel and Time Warner digital channel 423. Syndicated programming on the station includes: Judge Judy, The People's Court, Frasier, and Everybody Loves Raymond.
[edit] Digital programmingThe station's signal is multiplexed.
[edit] History WXXA is the only Albany television station that has never changed its network affiliation or call letters. The original owners were a group of investors led by the station's founding President and Station Manager Jim Boaz and movie production company Orion Pictures under the name "Albany TV-23, Inc." The station however, started as an independent. WXXA began broadcasting on July 30, 1982 as the market's first independent station. Before this, the channel 23 position existed for many years as a construction permit (originally as WPTR-TV) and prior to sign-on was rumored to get the NBC affiliation shed by WRGB prior to that network affiliating with WNYT. On October 6, 1986, WXXA became one of the sign-on affiliates of the fledgling FOX network and was sold from its original local owners to Heritage Broadcasting. In 1994, Heritage sold the station to Clear Channel Communications preceding its radio entry into the market and its sizable expansion of television assets in the Northeast by several years. Clear Channel would soon move WXXA from its original studios on Central Avenue in Albany (now a car dealership) to an expanded facility in Albany located near the Westmere area of the city. When UPN launched on January 16, 1995, WXXA gained a secondary affiliation with the network and aired its programming off-hours on weekends. Cable viewers in virtually the entire market were also able to watch the shows in-pattern on WSBK-TV from Boston. WXXA's secondary affiliation ended at the start of the 1997-1998 television season when UPN affiliated with WYPX who would show programming off-pattern during the week from 11 at night to 1 in the morning. Albany UPN affiliation would then switch to WVBG-LP in September 1999 and stay until January 2000. From January 2000 until August 2003, WXXA operated "WEDG-TV", a cable-only UPN affiliate seen on Time Warner, Charter, and Mid-Hudson Cablevision cable systems in the market. Known on-air as "UPN 4" after its channel location, the station signed-off concurrent with the sign-on of broadcast UPN affiliate WNYA. On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group to Providence Equity Partners' Newport Television. However, Providence Equity Partners currently owns a 16 percent stake in Freedom Communications, the owner of CBS affiliate WRGB. As a result, the FCC granted conditional approval of the deal in late-November provided that Providence Equity Partners follows through with its planned divestiture of its share in Freedom Communications (as required when Providence Equity Partners purchased a minority stake in the Spanish-language broadcaster Univision earlier in 2007) to another company before the group deal can be finalized. In the interim, WXXA was moved over to the Aloha Station Trust (alongside assorted for-sale Clear Channel radio stations) until a divestiture can be made. Once the share of Freedom Communications is spun off, WXXA will be fully transferred to Newport Television. [edit] Digital televisionWXXA's digital signal began broadcasting in December 2005 on VHF channel 7. A combination of objections from analog co-channels in New York City and Watertown, both of which have signals at the fringes of the Albany market, was the primary reason for the late and delayed sign-on. In January 2007, Clear Channel launched a digital-only network known as "The Variety Channel". The network broadcasted classic television shows, auto showcase programming, and various home improvement programs. WXXA-DT2 dropped the "The Variety Channel" on January 5, 2009 replacing it with "Untamed Sports TV". This programming service bills itself as the only outdoor adventure sports channel offering a multitude of risk-taking sports to those daring enough to explore a superb voyage in the great outdoors. On June 12, 2009, their digital signal remained on channel 7 when the analog to digital conversion completed. PSIP is used to display WXXA-DT's virtual channel as 23. [edit] News operation On October 7, 1996, WXXA launched a 10 P.M. newscast known as FOX News at 10. It was not the first in the market as WMHQ's WNYT-produced news started earlier that year. Filling a niche in local news broadcasts, the 10 o'clock show was expanded in early-2000 to an hour and renamed FOX 23 News at 10. In the most recent ratings periods, March and May 2009 WXXA was the market's most watched late newscast. The 10 P.M. news was joined by a 6:30 o'clock edition in late-2000. In 2001, WXXA took on the big three stations in the market for the first time by launching a weeknight 6 o'clock newscast that struggled to gain ratings. A change in upper management led to a realignment of early evening news with the 6:30 broadcast moving to 5 in September 2002. The 6 o'clock news was canceled in July 2003. In recent years, the station has made waves by putting a significant investment in its news operation. The biggest move was the signing of popular WNYT anchor John Gray in late-2003 and adding resources and capabilities behind the scenes and on-air. The station became one of the first to offer pod-casts in 2005. It was also the first television station worldwide to provide video pod-casts. On September 25, 2006, WXXA launched a weekday morning newscast (known as FOX 23 News Daybreak) running from 5 to 8. The time of the newscast changed to 6 to 9 in Fall 2008 and then to 6 to 8 in Summer 2009. As of June 29, WXXA airs a half-hour newscast weeknights at 11. 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