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'''WXXA-TV''' (channel 23) is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Albany, New York]], United States, serving the [[Capital District, New York|Capital District]] as an affiliate of the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] network.
WXXA-TV is the only commercial television station in Albany that has never changed its primary network affiliation or [[call signs in North America|call letters]].
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In 1994, Heritage sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now [[iHeartMedia]]) for $25.5 million,<ref name="ap-saletocc">{{cite news|title=WXXA-TV sold to Texas company|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5726101|access-date=March 6, 2017|work=[[Albany Times Union]]|agency=[[Associated Press]]|date=September 16, 1994|page=B12}}</ref> predating Clear Channel's sizable expansion of television assets in the [[Northeastern United States|Northeast]] in the following years. Clear Channel soon moved WXXA from its original studios on [[Central Avenue (Albany, New York)|Central Avenue]]/[[NYS Route 5]] in Albany (now a [[car dealership]]) to an expanded facility on Corporate Circle in Albany's [[Dunes, Albany, New York|Dunes]] section).
When [[UPN]] launched on January 16, 1995, WXXA aired programming from UPN off-hours on weekends. [[cable television|Cable]] viewers in virtually the entire market were also able to watch UPN in pattern on [[WSBK-TV]] in [[Boston]], which had been available on cable in the area for decades.<ref name="atu-wxxaupn">{{cite news|last1=Marder|first1=Keith|title=WXXA scores for the Trekkies|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5756886|access-date=March 6, 2017|work=[[Albany Times Union]]|date=January 19, 1995|page=C5}}{{dead link|date=December 2023|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> WXXA's secondary affiliation ended in 1998, when UPN signed [[WYPX]] (channel 55) as its new secondary affiliate and [[low-power broadcasting#Television|low-powered]] [[WVBG-LP]] (channel 25) as a primary affiliate.<ref name=atu-wvbgupn>{{cite news|last=McGuire|first=Mark|title=Channel 25 is now affiliated with UPN|page=D6|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5886521|access-date=March 6, 2017|newspaper=[[Albany Times Union]]|date=September 30, 1998}}</ref> The network was picked up again by WXXA after Clear Channel, in partnership with Time Warner Cable, launched cable-only affiliate "
WXXA-DT began airing on VHF channel 7 on December 20, 2005. A combination of objections from analog co-channels [[WABC-TV]] (in New York City) and [[WWNY-TV]] (in [[Watertown (city), New York|Watertown]]), whose signals reach the fringes of the Albany area, was the primary reason for the late and delayed sign-on. On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television station group to [[Providence Equity Partners]]' [[Newport Television]] (the deal closed in March 2008).
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