A native of New York, Paxson began his career as an owner of WACK Radio, a little 500 watt radio station in the village of Newark, New York.
However, DP Media was owned by – and named for – Devon Paxson, son of Paxson Communications founder Bud Paxson.
WIIB continued to air HSN programming until 1998, when it was sold to DP Media, owned by Devon Paxson, son of Pax founder Bud Paxson, and affiliated with Pax TV.
Finally, in 1996, Paxson Communications – another company that specialized in home-shopping programs, though of the infomercial variety (and whose founder also launched the Home Shopping Network; although Paxson had owned a couple of major network affiliates years before, such as West Palm Beach, Florida ABC affiliate WPBF) – purchased WAKC.
Bud Collins | Bud Wilkinson | Bud Spencer | Bud Selig | Bud Flanagan | Air Bud | Bud Shank | Bud Paxson | Bud Cort | Second Battle of Bud Dajo | Bud Wildman | Bud Muehleisen | Bud Moore | Bud Luckey | Bud Harrelson | Bud Grant | Bud Fisher | Bud Clark | Bud | Taste Bud's Mgmt | Melanie Paxson | Jimmy Paxson | Charles "Bud" Tingwell | Bud Tribble | Bud & Travis | Bud Tingwell | Bud Sparhawk | Bud Shuster | Bud Norris | Bud Fowler |
The home shopping/electronic retailing industry was created in 1977, when small market talk radio show host Bob Circosta was asked to sell avocado-green-colored can openers live on the air by station owner Bud Paxson, when an advertiser traded 112 units of product instead of paying his advertising bill.