WXXA-TV: Difference between revisions

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| affiliations = {{ubl|'''23.1:''' [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]<br>|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}

| operator = [[Nexstar Media Group]]<br>( via [[shared services|SSA]])

| sister_stations = [[WTEN]]

| haat = {{convert|437.2|m|ft|10|abbr=on}}

'''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. It is owned by [[Mission Broadcasting]] and operated under a [[shared services]] agreement (SSA) by [[Nexstar Media Group]], owner of [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate [[WTEN]] (channel 10, also licensed to Albany). Both stations share studios on Northern Boulevard in Albany's [[Neighborhoods of Albany, New York|Bishop's Gate]] section, while WXXA-TV's transmitter is located on the [[Helderberg Escarpment]] west of [[New Salem, New York|New Salem]].

In July 1986, WXXA-TV agreed to become a charter affiliate of Fox,<ref name="atu-wxxafox1">{{cite news|last1=Snook|first1=Debbi|title=Rivers will be talking locally this fall on WXXA|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5447064|page=B8|access-date=March 6, 2017|work=[[Albany Times Union]]|date=July 15, 1986}}</ref> which launched on October 9.<ref name="atu-wxxafox2">{{cite news|title=Independents get some first-runs|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5453390|access-date=March 6, 2017|work=[[Albany Times Union]]|date=September 12, 1986|page=1B}}</ref> Initially, WXXA-TV still programmed itself as an independent, since Fox only aired one program (''[[The Late Show (1986 talk show)|The Late Show]] Starring [[Joan Rivers]]'') until April 1987 and even then would not present an entire week's worth of programming until the [[1993–94 United States network television schedule|1993–94 season]]. Shortly after Fox's launch, Albany TV 23 sold the station to Heritage Broadcasting Group (a Detroit-based company, unrelated to the similarly named [[Heritage Cablevision|Heritage Communications]] and [[Heritage Media]], that was also in the process of acquiring [[WWTV]] in [[Cadillac, Michigan]]) for $10.1 million.<ref name="atu-saletoheritage1">{{cite news|last1=O'Hara|first1=Rosemary|title=WXXA-TV sold for $10 million|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5447566|page=B7|access-date=March 5, 2017|work=[[Albany Times Union]]|date=July 19, 1986}}</ref><ref name="atu-saletoheritage2">{{cite news|last1=Haynes|first1=Laura|title=WXXA retains Fox; Boaz probably a 23 consultant|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5447792|page=6B|access-date=March 5, 2017|work=[[Knickerbocker News]]|date=July 22, 1986}}</ref> The station picked up programming from the [[Prime Time Entertainment Network]] (PTEN) block in 1993.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.tv/browse_thread/thread/98843822ed20a79c/5dbb63b15ca806e7?lnk=st&q=%22Prime+Time+Entertainment+Network%22+%22station+list%22+95&rnum=1 |title=B5: Babylon 5 TV Station List/Times updated! |access-date=November 27, 2006 |last=Whiteside |first=Lee |date=April 6, 1995 |work=rec.arts.sf.tv |publisher=[[Google Groups]] }}</ref>

[[Image:WXAA-Range.svg|thumb|150px|ItsWXXA's coverage area (primary in dark red, secondary in light pink).]]

The station's digital signal is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:

WXXA-TV shut down its analog signal, over [[Ultra high frequency|UHF]] channel 23, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States [[Digital television transition in the United States|transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts]] under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition [[Very high frequency|VHF]] channel 7.,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 29, 2013 |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |access-date=March 24, 2012 }}</ref> Through the use of [[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]], digital television receivers display the station'susing [[virtual channel]] as its former UHF analog channel 23. During the 2019 digital television repack, WXXA moved from VHF channel 7 to channel 8.