WPXC-TV
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| City | Brunswick, Georgia | 
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| History | |
| Founded | December 28, 1987 | 
| First air date | April 2, 1990 | 
| Former call signs | WBSG-TV (1990–2001) | 
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| Call sign meaning | Paxson Communications (original name of current owner) | 
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| Licensing authority | FCC | 
| Facility ID | 71236 | 
| ERP | 790 kW | 
| HAAT | 417 m (1,368 ft) | 
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°49′39″N 81°44′27″W / 30.82750°N 81.74083°W | 
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| Website | iontelevision | 
WPXC-TV (channel 21) is a television station licensed to Brunswick, Georgia, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Jacksonville, Florida, area. It is the only major commercial station in the Jacksonville market that is licensed in Georgia. The station is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company and broadcasts from a transmitter in southwestern Camden County, Georgia, northwest of Kingsland.
Channel 21 began broadcasting as WBSG-TV on April 2, 1990. It was an independent station owned by Coastal Com, Inc., and had studios on Blythe Island Highway (State Route 303) in southwestern Brunswick, as well as a full local news department serving coastal southeastern Georgia. In 1995, WBSG-TV became the nearest affiliate of The WB to Jacksonville. Allbritton Communications purchased WBSG-TV in 1996 and immediately announced it would become the new ABC affiliate for Jacksonville, replacing WJKS-TV. An attempt to move the tower from its original location at Hickox south to Kingsland was delayed, but a height increase allowed the station to put a fringe signal into areas of Jacksonville north of Interstate 10. When WJKS-TV without warning preempted more than half of ABC's prime time shows beginning in January 1997, WJXX (channel 25) was rushed into service to fill the gap. WJXX soon became the primary station in the arrangement; the Brunswick news operation was closed in 1998.
When Allbritton sold WJXX to Gannett in 2000, WBSG-TV was not included. It immediately switched to programming from the Pax network, predecessor to Ion, and was sold outright to the network later that year.