WVPX-TV (channel 23) is a television station licensed to Akron, Ohio, United States, serving the Cleveland area as an affiliate of Ion Television.

10/29/1989 WAKC 23 Newsday Weekend Report ClipPartial newscast with commercials.All copyrights acknowledged.

Memories of WAKR/WAKC-TV 23 & 49 and WAKR Radio. This group was created by Myself in order to attract residents of Akron that watched and listen and worked at WAKR-AM/FM and WAKR/WAKC-TV 23 to share...

2010年10月6日 · WAKR-TV was retained by the Berk family and renamed WAKC/23, and was eventually sold off to ValueVision in 1994. Today it is Cleveland-targeted ION O&O WVPX/23, with its’ master control at WKYC/3’s digital broadcast center. Of course, WAKR went through much turnover in the late 1980s and early 1990s upon the dismantling of Group One.

2016年2月26日 · Twenty years ago Sunday, Akron lost a long-running locally based newscast. WAKC (Channel 23) had a new owner, Paxson Communications, and one of that owner’s first acts was to kill the news. That was just part of a systematic dismantling of what had been the most Akron-centric station in the region.

The station signed-on in June 7, 1953. In 1967, WAKR-TV moved from Channel 49 to Channel 23.

2021年2月28日 · In 2016, Channel 23 alumni gathered at Akron's Spaghetti Warehouse to look back at what was for many their first -- and best -- job in broadcasting. 25 years ago (Feb. 28, 1996): Akron lost its only TV newsroom as WAKC (Channel 23, formerly WAKR-TV) was sold. Here’s a look back... pic.twitter.com/I0efZFXXqC.

1992年3月13日 · It was a locally produced music video show that was indeed hosted by Billy Soule (previously a DJ at WAKR radio and was one of the last music hosts on KQV in 1975 when they flipped to all-news).

2007年7月17日 · For a time, the station used the call letters "WAKR" and later "WAKC" but most folks just knew it as "23 News." On leap year day 1996, Akron news went dark as the station's new owner shut down the evening broadcasts. 40+ years of broadcasting history tossed out when a business group decided to turn out the lights.

2015年10月24日 · It moved to a stronger signal on Channel 23 in 1967, but still struggled financially. A major problem was that much bigger stations from Cleveland served the Akron area. Viewers watching ABC programming on WAKR often assumed they were watching it on Cleveland’s WEWS-TV. Akron was not a separate TV market.