WFXZ-CD

The station's construction permit was originally granted on November 30, 1989, as W29BA, operating on channel 29, which would be licensed to nearby Lawrence.{{Cite web|url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=125688 |title=Application Details (WFXZ-CA) |access-date=December 24, 2023 |work=CDBS Public Access |publisher=Federal Communications Commission }} However, by the time finally it signed on the air with a home shopping service in early 2000, it had moved to channel 24, was licensed to Boston and adopted the W24CM call sign.{{Cite news|first=Scott |last=Fybush |title="Quick," What's On 93.5/93.9? |url=http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-000407.html |work=North East RadioWatch | publisher=The Archives @ BostonRadio.org | date=April 7, 2000 | access-date=November 6, 2006 }}

A few months later, channel 24 changed its call letters to WVXN-LP. In 2001, the station was upgraded to Class A status as WVXN-CA and dropped home shopping programming in favor of affiliating with MTV2.{{Cite news|first=Scott |last=Fybush |title=Ackerley Signs Off |url=http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-011008.html |work=North East RadioWatch | publisher=The Archives @ BostonRadio.org | date=October 8, 2001 | access-date=November 6, 2006 }} The station changed its callsign to WFXZ-CA in 2003. In July 2006, the station became the Boston affiliate of the Azteca América network.{{Cite news|title=Azteca America opens Boston station |url=http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2006/07/31/daily25.html| work=Boston Business Journal | date=August 2, 2006 | access-date=November 6, 2006 }}

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WFXZ flash-cut its signal to digital transmission in 2010. Longtime owner Randolph Weigner agreed to sell WFXZ to Prime Time Partners in December 2011. The station became a charter MundoFox affiliate when the network formally launched on August 13, 2012,{{cite news|last=Seyler|first=Dave|title=MundoFOX adds four large markets|url=http://rbr.com/mundofox-adds-four-large-markets/|access-date=August 9, 2012|newspaper=Television Business Report|date=August 9, 2012}} with Azteca America programming moving to its second digital subchannel; it returned to primary status early on December 1, 2016, due to MundoMax ending operations (shortly after Fox International Channels dropped out of the joint venture in 2015). During its affiliations with MundoFox/MundoMax and Azteca América, WFXZ-CD was carried on Xfinity digital channels 721 and 981, and Verizon FiOS channel 20. A third subchannel, {{circa|2014}}, carried Hope Channel.{{Cite web |url=http://www.hopetv.org/four-cities-success |title=Hope Channel in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Tampa! |access-date=December 14, 2014 |archive-date=December 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214175159/http://www.hopetv.org/four-cities-success/ |url-status=dead }}

In the FCC's incentive auction, WFXZ-CD sold its spectrum for $63,949,770 and indicated that it would enter into a post-auction channel sharing agreement.{{cite web|title=FCC Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction Auction 1001 Winning Bids|url=http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db0413/DA-17-314A2.pdf|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=August 8, 2017|format=PDF|date=April 4, 2017}} On September 8, 2017, the station entered into a channel sharing agreement with WGBH-TV (channel 2); concurrently, Prime Time Partners agreed to donate the WFXZ license to the WGBH Educational Foundation.{{cite web|title=Amendment to a Modification of a Licensed Facility for Digital Class A TV Station Application|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076ff35eaa0027015f083c884c1138&id=25076ff35eaa0027015f083c884c1138&goBack=N|website=Licensing and Management System|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=October 28, 2017|date=October 11, 2017}}{{cite web|title=Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1769820&Service=DC&Form_id=314&Facility_id=64833|website=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=October 28, 2017|date=October 25, 2017}} WFXZ shut down its UHF digital channel 24 transmitter on December 3, 2017, and began channel-sharing on WGBH-TV's channel 19 transmitter;{{cite web|title=Notice of Suspension of Operations of STATION WFXZ-CD on Pre-Auction Channel|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/api/download/attachment/25076ff36004e28b01600ddfa810063d|website=Licensing and Management System|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=December 23, 2017|format=PDF|date=November 30, 2017}} WGBH's acquisition of the station was completed on December 21, 2017,{{cite web|title=Consummation Notice|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1774891&Service=DC&Form_id=905&Facility_id=64833|website=CDBS Public Notice|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=December 23, 2017|date=December 21, 2017}} at which point the station dropped Azteca América for BizTV. Concurrently, the station's carriage on Xfinity and Verizon FiOS was discontinued.

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