WPXD-TV

Satellite Syndicated Systems bought it from Morningstar and put the station on the air in January 1981 as WRHT, soon changed to WIHT.

Two years later, it was purchased by Blackstar Communications, a Black-owned firm in which HSN held an equity interest, retaining its program format but changing its call sign to WBSX.

In 1973, Ann Arbor resident Gershom Morningstar, through his Wolverine-Morningstar Broadcasting Company, petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allocate UHF channel 31 to the city.

[2] The company then applied for[3] and received a construction permit to build a station on the newly assigned channel, which would be the first since WPAG-TV broadcast in the 1950s.

Morningstar believed that the regional coverage of his proposed new station would make it a major outlet, estimating it would cover 80 percent of Michigan's population,[4] with more people than the Philadelphia television market—the nation's fourth largest.

[9] Southern Satellite was approved to obtain the construction permit on November 28, 1979; it announced it would build the station's transmitter at the same site proposed by Wolverine-Morningstar, in Lyndon Township along M-52.

[12] Kip Farmer, WRHT's first general manager, praised the preparatory work done by Morningstar for accelerating the process of starting the station.

The next month, the FCC abolished the so-called "28-hour rule"—which required stations to provide a minimum of, on average, four hours a day of non-subscription programming.

[25] On November 1, 1985, IT ceased broadcasting as cable penetration in the Ann Arbor area rose and subscriptions slowly declined, though the service still had 12,000 paying customers.

[32][33] Tempo Enterprises dropped most of WIHT's existing programming on September 21, 1987, to carry the Home Shopping Network (HSN), an effort to boost the station's middling revenue performance.

The company was no stranger to home shopping; HSN owned 45 percent of its equity,[37] and it ran stations with the format in Florida and Oregon.

It also began operating a translator in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, to reach areas of Metro Detroit unserved by the main Ann Arbor signal.

[41][a] In 2001, Paxson Communications entered into a joint sales agreement with Post-Newsweek Stations, owner of Detroit NBC affiliate WDIV-TV.

[44] WPXD was one of two Detroit-market stations, along with WMYD, to terminate analog broadcasting on the original digital transition date of February 17, 2009.