WCPX-LP

WCPX-LP is a low-power television station in Columbus, Ohio, was broadcasting locally as analog channel 48 until March 2010 as an affiliate of Azteca América. Founded January 29, 1985, the station is owned currently by Columbus Hispanic Media, LLC.

The station is currently (as of January 17, 2016) reported as being off the air.

History

WCPX ceased operations on channel 48 due to the impending move of full-power WSYX to broadcast its digital signal on channel 48. Because low-power television is a "secondary" service, a full-power station can displace a low-power station to improve the full-power station's coverage. WSYX received permission in 2009 to move its digital broadcast from channel 13 (a VHF channel) to channel 48 so as to better replicate WSYX's original analog full-power coverage.

Prior to the station joining Azteca América in January 2008, the station was a translator of WSFJ-TV, at that time an ION Television affiliate; even though network owner ION Media Networks did not own WSFJ, it did own WCPX-LP. Until 1995, the station (as W62BE, though it branded as "WCLS-TV") was an independent broadcast station operating on analog channel 62, with studios located in the Greater Columbus Convention Center until 1994.