WLPX-TV (channel 29) is a television station licensed to Charleston, West Virginia, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Charleston–Huntington market. The station is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, and has offices on Prestige Park Drive in Hurricane; its transmitter is located near Milton, West Virginia.
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| City | Charleston, West Virginia |
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| Branding | Ion |
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| History | |
| Founded | October 27, 1988 |
First air date | August 31, 1998 |
Former call signs | WKRP-TV (August–October 1998) |
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Call sign meaning | Charleston's Pax |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 73189 |
| ERP | 765 kW |
| HAAT | 327.2 m (1,073 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°30′21.1″N 82°12′32.3″W / 38.505861°N 82.208972°W |
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Public license information | |
| Website | iontelevision |
History
editAfter originating as a construction permit in 1987 and receiving several extensions, WLPX-TV applied for its license on September 11, 1998.[2] In the construction phase and for its first month on air, the station's calls were WKRP (the same as the fictional radio station in Cincinnati); it adopted its current call sign on October 5 of the same year. It has been a member of Ion (previously known as Pax TV and i: Independent Television) since its inception.
Technical information
editSubchannels
editThe station's signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 29.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
| 29.2 | 480i | CourtTV | Court TV | |
| 29.3 | Bounce | Bounce TV | ||
| 29.4 | Laff | Laff | ||
| 29.5 | Defy TV | Ion Plus[4] | ||
| 29.6 | SCRIPPS | Scripps News | ||
| 29.7 | Jewelry | Jewelry TV | ||
| 29.8 | HSN | HSN | ||
| 29.9 | QVC | QVC |
Analog-to-digital conversion
editWLPX-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 29, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 39,[5] using virtual channel 29.
References
edit- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WLPX-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "WLPX-TV Facility Data". FCCData. REC Networks.
- ^ "Digital TV Market Listing for WLPX". www.rabbitears.info.
- ^ Keys, Matthew (June 28, 2024). "Scripps replacing Defy TV with Ion Plus on broadcast TV". TheDesk.net. Retrieved June 28, 2024.
- ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.