WPXK-TV
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| City | Jellico, Tennessee |
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| Branding | Ion |
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| History | |
First air date | January 1993 |
Former call signs | WPMC (1993–1998) |
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| HSN (1993–1998, now on DT8) | |
Call sign meaning | Pax TV Knoxville |
| Technical information[2] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 52628 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW[1] |
| HAAT | 512.5 m (1,681 ft)[1] |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°0′19″N 83°56′23″W / 36.00528°N 83.93972°W[1] |
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Public license information | |
| Website | iontelevision |
WPXK-TV (channel 54) is a television station licensed to Jellico, Tennessee, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Knoxville area. Owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, the station has offices on Executive Park Drive in west Knoxville, and its transmitter is located on Sharp's Ridge in North Knoxville.[1] Despite Jellico being WPXK-TV's city of license, the station maintains no physical presence there.
Signing on the air in 1993 as WPMC with a small coverage area, it offered primarily religious and home shopping programming until August 1998 when it became WPXK-TV, joining the Pax TV network (the predecessor to Ion) and greatly increasing its signal coverage across the entire Knoxville market.
Technical information
[edit]Subchannels
[edit]The station's signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 54.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
| 54.2 | 480i | CourtTV | Court TV | |
| 54.3 | Laff | Laff | ||
| 54.4 | Mystery | Ion Mystery | ||
| 54.5 | IONPlus | Ion Plus | ||
| 54.6 | Jewelry | Jewelry TV | ||
| 54.7 | QVC | QVC | ||
| 54.8 | HSN | HSN | ||
| 54.9 | QVC2 | QVC2 |
On November 16, 2024, Scripps News ceased over-the-air operations and converted to a free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service; as a result, WPXK-TV replaced the network on its fifth subchannel with Ion Plus.
Analog-to-digital conversion
[edit]WPXK-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 54, 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 23,[4] using virtual channel 54.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Modification of a DTV Station Construction Permit Application". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. March 4, 2019. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WPXK-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for WPXK". RabbitEars.info. Retrieved November 19, 2024.
- ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved March 24, 2012.