WBPX-TV

rdf:langString WBPX-TV

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rdf:langString Bob Klein

rdf:langString Sanford Socolow

rdf:langString Ed Siegel

rdf:langString Gregory A. Patterson

rdf:langString John H. Hoagland, Jr.

rdf:langString WBPX-TV

rdf:langString "Boston Pax"

rdf:langString United States

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rdf:langString Ion Media Boston License, LLC

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rdf:langString It is rare that a television license becomes available in a major market such as Boston, and the university would be remiss if it did not take advantage of this opportunity.

rdf:langString [The Monitor approach to television] made you scratch your head all the time. I think their chances in the short run are next to nil. I don't think they're dealing with reality.

rdf:langString I don't think it could be profitable any time in the foreseeable future, and I probably shouldn't say this, just as a Boston operation. Yes [it can be profitable] if this can be a springboard to national distribution.

rdf:langString Like PBS at its worst, the station betrays a distaste for television, rather than an appreciation of the medium.

rdf:langString Handy-man special. A station in search of an image, Ch. 68 relies on worn-out shows like I Dream of Jeannie and The Flying Nun in the prime-time slot. Weak signal and low ratings, station failed to garner even 1 percent of the viewing audience in the latest ratings period report by the Nielsen Co.

rdf:langString They had gone and built this whole apparatus, bought a lot of equipment, hired a lot of people, and they didn't know what to do. They were wading into the ocean and found that the water was deeper than they thought.

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rdf:langString The Boston Globe, on the situation of WQTV in 1986

rdf:langString president, Boston University

rdf:langString television columnist, The Boston Globe

rdf:langString television consultant, on the channel's launch

rdf:langString on the situation prior to the launch of World Monitor

rdf:langString member of the WQTV board, on channel 68's new format in 1989

rdf:langString WBPX-TV (channel 68) is a television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, airing programming from the Ion Television network. It is owned by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, which also owns Woburn-licensed Grit station WDPX-TV (channel 58); the two channels share the same TV spectrum. WBPX-TV and WDPX-TV are broadcast from a tower shared with WUNI and WWJE-DT on Parmenter Road in Hudson, Massachusetts. WBPX-TV's programming is duplicated on WPXG-TV (channel 21) in Concord, New Hampshire, which shares its channel with Lowell, Massachusetts–licensed Daystar station WYDN (channel 48) and broadcasts from Fort Mountain near Epsom, New Hampshire. WBPX-TV began broadcasting as WQTV in 1979 and originally broadcast subscription television programming to paying customers, which ended in 1983, with the station operating as a full-time commercial independent station until succumbing to financial troubles and paring back its programming. After being sold to The Christian Science Monitor in 1986, WQTV became the nucleus of a major production operation, which in 1991 spawned a cable television channel, the Monitor Channel. After $325 million in losses, this service shut down in 1992, and the Monitor sold WQTV to Boston University, which operated it for six years as commercial independent WABU. Boston University also bought the Concord station, which had been silent since it failed as CBS affiliate WNHT in 1989, and turned it into a satellite of WABU in 1995. Both stations were sold in 1999 to become outlets of the Pax network, which changed its name to i in 2005 before becoming known as Ion in 2007.

rdf:langString Satellite station