Complex sentence: The station became WQEX in March 1959, after WQED acquired the station for use as its secondary channel for its educational programs; it went dark in November 1961, but returned to the air over a year later, in January 1963.
Split into simpler sentences: The station became WQEX in March 1959, after WQED acquired the station for use as a secondary channel for airing educational programs. WQEX went dark again in November 1961, but returned to the air over a year later, in January 1963.