KTPX-TV

This article is about the television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For the Midland television station that used the callsign from 1980 to 1993, see KWES-TV.

KTPX-TV

Okmulgee–Tulsa, Oklahoma United States
City	Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Channels	Digital: 28 (UHF) Virtual: 44
Branding	Ion
Programming
Affiliations	2.11: NBC (KJRH-TV simulcast) 44.1: Ion Television for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Ion Media (Ion Television License, LLC)
Sister stations	KJRH-TV
History
First air date	July 3, 1997 (1997-07-03)
Former call signs	KGLB-TV (1997–1998)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 44 (UHF, 1997–2009)
Former affiliations	inTV (1997–1998)
Call sign meaning	Tulsa's Pax TV (reflecting network's former branding)
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	7078
ERP	1,000 kW
HAAT	219 m (719 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	35°50′2″N 96°7′29″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	iontelevision.com

KTPX-TV (channel 44) is a television station licensed to Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States, serving as the Ion Television outlet for the Tulsa area. It is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company alongside NBC affiliate KJRH-TV (channel 2). KTPX-TV's offices are located on East Skelly Drive in Tulsa, and its transmitter is located near Mounds, Oklahoma.

History

The station first signed on the air on July 3, 1997, as KGLB-TV; it originally carried programming from Paxson Communications' infomercial service, the Infomall Television Network (inTV). The station became a charter owned-and-operated station of Pax TV (now Ion Television) when the network launched on August 31, 1998; on January 13 of that year, the station changed its call letters to KTPX-TV (the KTPX calls were previously used by NBC affiliate KWES-TV in Midland, Texas from 1981 to 1993).

Sale to Scripps

On September 24, 2020, the Cincinnati-based E. W. Scripps Company announced that it would purchase Ion Media for $2.65 billion, with financing from Berkshire Hathaway. The purchase made KTPX-TV a sister station to NBC affiliate KJRH-TV (channel 2). The sale was completed on January 7, 2021.

On February 27, 2021, KTPX-DT2 began to simulcast KJRH's main schedule, and was re-mapped to channel 2.11.

Programming

KTPX airs the entire Ion schedule and since the repeal of the Main Studio Rule, it carries the network without any local content outside of an hourly on-screen station identification; the station is also not currently used by KJRH to carry preempted NBC and syndicated programming.

Newscasts

Further information: KJRH-TV § News operation

Until 2005, KTPX aired rebroadcasts of KJRH-TV's 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts at 6:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on tape delay.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KTPX-TV

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
2.11	720p	16:9	KJRH	NBC (KJRH-TV)
44.1			ION	Ion Television
44.3	480i		CourtTV	Court TV
44.4			Grit	Grit
44.5			Mystery	Ion Mystery
44.6			Jewelry	Jewelry Television
44.7			QVC	QVC
44.8			HSN	HSN

  Simulcast of subchannels of another station

Analog-to-digital conversion

KTPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 44, 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 28, using virtual channel 44.

External links

• Ion Television official website