WRPX-TV
Rocky Mount/Raleigh, North Carolina United States | |
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Branding | ION Television |
Slogan | Positively Entertaining |
Channels |
Digital: 15 (UHF) Virtual: 47 (PSIP) |
Subchannels |
47.1 Ion Television 47.2 Qubo 47.3 ION Life 47.4 Ion Shop 47.5 QVC 47.6 HSN |
Affiliations | Ion Television (O&O; 2007–present) |
Owner |
Ion Media Networks, Inc. (Ion Media Raleigh License, Inc.) |
First air date | 1992 |
Call letters' meaning | Raleigh's PaX TV |
Former callsigns | WRMY (1992–1998) |
Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 47 (UHF, 1992–2009) |
Former affiliations |
Independent (1992–1998) Pax TV (1998–2005) i (2005–2007) |
Transmitter power | 180 kW (digital) |
Height | 354 m |
Facility ID | 20590 |
Transmitter coordinates | 36°6′11″N 78°11′29″W / 36.10306°N 78.19139°W |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
Website | ION Television |
WRPX-TV is one of two Ion Television affiliates for the Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina television market, licensed to nearby Rocky Mount. The station is owned by ion Media Networks (the former Paxson Communications), and is a sister station to WFPX.
Digital television[1]
Digital channels
Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Network |
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47.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
47.2 | 480i | 4:3 | qubo | Qubo |
47.3 | IONLife | Ion Life | ||
47.4 | Shop | Ion Shop | ||
47.5 | QVC | QVC | ||
47.6 | HSN | HSN |
Analog-to-digital conversion
WRPX-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 47, at noon 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 15.[2] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 47. In recent years, WRPX-TV has been carried on cable in Oak City, which is within the Greenville media market.[3]
References
External links
- Ion Television website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WRPX
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WRPX-TV