WLPX-TV

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.

WLPX-TV
CityCharleston, West Virginia
Channels
BrandingIon
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
FoundedOctober 27, 1988
First air date
August 31, 1998 (1998-08-31)
Former call signs
WKRP-TV (August–October 1998)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
29 (UHF, 1998–2009)
Digital:
39 (UHF, 2001–2019)
Call sign meaning
Charleston's Pax
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID73189
ClassDT
ERP765 kW
HAAT327.2 m (1,073 ft)
Transmitter coordinates38°30′21.1″N 82°12′32.3″W
Links
Public license information
Websiteiontelevision.com

History

After originating as a construction permit in 1987 and receiving several extensions, WLPX-TV applied for its license on September 11, 1998.[1] 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

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect Short name Programming[2]
29.1720p16:9IONIon Television
29.2480iCourtTVCourt TV
29.3BounceBounce TV
29.4GritGrit
29.5Defy TVDefy TV
29.6TruRealTrueReal
29.7Scripps News Scripps News
29.8HSNHSN
29.9QVCQVC

Analog-to-digital conversion

WLPX-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 29, on June 12, 2009, the official date in 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.[3] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 29.

References
  1. "WLPX-TV Facility Data". FCCData. REC Networks.
  2. "Digital TV Market Listing for WLPX". www.rabbitears.info.
  3. "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
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