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 and is broadcast from a tower in Hudson, Massachusetts, sharing the same TV spectrum with WDPX-TV (channel 58). WBPX-TV began broadcasting as WQTV in 1979 and primarily broadcast paid subscription television programming until 1983. The station succumbed to financial troubles in 1985 and pared 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. The service shut down in 1992 amid total losses estimated at $325 million, and the church sold WQTV to Boston University, which operated it for six years as commercial independent WABU. The station was sold in 1999 to become an outlet of the Pax network, known as Ion since 2007.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1959:
After being struck in the face with a hockey puck, Jacques Plante played the rest of the game wearing a face mask, now mandatory equipment for goaltenders in ice hockey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Plante
1959:
Dominique Mbonyumutwa, one of the few Hutu sub-chiefs in colonial Rwanda, was attacked by Tutsi activists, precipitating the Rwandan Revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Revolution
1972:
Elvis on Tour, a concert film that documented Elvis Presley's tour throughout the United States, opened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_on_Tour
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
aeviternity: 1. Synonym of eternity (“existence without end”) 2. (Scholastic philosophy) Synonym of aevum (“the temporal mode of existence between time and eternity, said to be experienced by angels, saints, and celestial bodies (which medieval astronomy believed to be unchanging)”) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aeviternity
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Often the fear of one evil leads us into a worse. --Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicolas_Boileau-Despr%C3%A9aux