WPIX
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WPIX, branded PIX 11, is a television station in New York City, serving as the de facto flagship of The CW. The station is owned by Mission Broadcasting and operated under a local marketing agreement
WPIX Plaza at the Daily News Building on the southwest corner of 2nd Avenue and 42nd Street
The first 11 Alive logo, which was used from 1976 to 1982
Screencap of the frozen WPIX image from the September 11, 2001, satellite feed
A WPIX news van in Brooklyn
Superstation
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In North American broadcasting, a superstation is a terrestrial television station that has its broadcast range extended outside of their originating media market via communications satellite to multi
WPIX
…known as "11 WPIX Plaza") in Midtown Manhattan. The station's transmitter is located at the Empire State Building. WPIX is also available as a regional superstation via satellite and cable in the United States and Canada. It is the largest Nexstar-operated station by population of market size. The station first…
A typical communications satellite depicted in orbit over Earth. Satellites like these were used to uplink superstations beginning in the late 1970s.
Microwave relay stations, like this AT&T station in Wyoming c. 1951, were used to amplify distant television signals.
Ted Turner, c. 1976
A typical c-band satellite dish