KKPX-TV

KKPX-TV

San Jose–San Francisco– Oakland, California United States
City	San Jose, California
Channels	Digital: 33 (UHF) Virtual: 65
Branding	Ion Television
Programming
Affiliations	65.1: Ion Television for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Ion Media (Ion Television License, LLC)
History
First air date	November 15, 1986 (1986-11-15)
Former call signs	KLXV-TV (1986–1998)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 65 (UHF, 1986–2009) Digital: 41 (UHF, until 2020)
Former affiliations	TBN (1986–1995) inTV (1995–1998)
Call sign meaning	"Pax"
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	22644
ERP	510 kW
HAAT	432 m (1,417 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	37°41′14.4″N 122°26′5.3″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	iontelevision.com

KKPX-TV (channel 65) is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving as the Ion Television outlet for the San Francisco Bay Area. The station is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, and has offices on Price Avenue in Redwood City; its transmitter is located atop San Bruno Mountain.

History

The station first signed on the air on November 15, 1986, as KLXV-TV (the last three letters of the callsign representing the Roman numeral for 65) and was an affiliate of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. In 1995, the station became an affiliate of the infomercial service InTV. In January 1998, the station's call letters were changed to KKPX after Paxson Communications (now Ion Media) bought the station. KKPX became a charter owned-and-operated station of Pax TV (the predecessor of Ion Television, to which the network was renamed in 2007) on August 31.

Newscasts

Further information: KNTV § News operation

From 2000 to 2005, KKPX, during weeknights, aired rebroadcasts of KNTV (channel 11)'s 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts at 7 and 11:30 p.m. instead of airing newscasts from then-NBC affiliate KRON-TV (channel 4). The newscasts were originally branded as NewsChannel 11 on Pax after KNTV switched its affiliation from ABC to The WB. When KNTV joined NBC in January 2002, the newscasts were first renamed to NBC 3 News on Pax, then to NBC 11 News on Pax several months later, after KNTV stopped branding by its common channel number on Bay Area cable systems. Like most other such arrangements involving Pax stations and major network affiliates, the simulcasts were dropped on June 30, 2005 (the day prior to Pax's rebranding as i: Independent Television).

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KKPX-TV

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
65.1	720p	16:9	ION	Ion Television
65.2	480i		Bounce	Bounce TV
65.3			CourtTV	Court TV
65.4			IONPlus	Ion Plus
65.5			Laff	Laff
65.6			Grit	Grit
65.7			Jewelry	Jewelry TV
65.8			QVC	QVC

KKPX-TV had plans for a Mobile DTV feed of subchannel 65.1. A Mobile DTV feed did later launch, but it carried programming from 65.2 (Qubo).

After the over-the-air operations of Scripps News folded on November 16, 2024, KKPX replaced the network on its sixth subchannel with the Western-oriented diginet Grit.

Analog-to-digital conversion

KKPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 65, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 41, using virtual channel 65.