WPXN-TV (channel 31) is a television station in New York City, serving as the local Ion Television outlet. Owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, the station maintains offices on Seventh Avenue in Midtown Manhattan [2] and transmits from atop One World Trade Center.

Much to everyone's surprise, WNYC-TV applied in 1974 for experimental subscription television operation using the Teleglobe system, which was authorized on November 21; the authorization expired six months later without channel 31 ever transmitting a scrambled signal.

On June 30, 1996, WNYC-TV was sold by the New York City government, converted into a commercial station, and its callsign changed to WBIS. It would later change its callsign in 1997 to the current WPXN-TV, prior to 1998 when Pax TV was launched.

WNYC-TV signed off for the last time on June 30, 1996, and, twelve hours later, Channel 31 was back on the air as WBIS-TV. Today, Channel 31 is licensed to WPXN-TV, an Ion Television owned-and-operated station.

Work by the TFU led the way for what would be the world’s first noncommercial municipal television station, WUHF – later, WNYC-TV/Channel 31. In the early 1960s, after participating in the FCC’s testing of the viability of UHF transmitters, WNYC-TV …

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Oct 12, 2007 · WNYC-TV 31 received June 1986 from Philadelphia.

At that point, Channel 31 transitioned away from a municipal channel to being a sports network. Scope and Contents: This collection consists of two sets of original media: film produced by the station from 1949-1981, and video produced from 1981-1996.

Memories of the defunct New York PBS channel WNYC TV 31.

Abstract: This collection consists of moving image materials produced by WNYC-TV from about 1943-1998. Dates : circa 1943-1998 WNYC-TV subject files, 1988-1991