KPXB-TV
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| Conroe/Houston, Texas | |
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| Branding | ION Television |
| Channels | Digital: 32 (UHF) Virtual: 49 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | Ion Television qubo (KPXB-DT2) ION Life (KPXB-DT3) |
| Owner | Ion Media Networks, Inc. (Ion Media Houston License, Inc.) |
| First air date | June 16, 1989 |
| Call letters' meaning | PaXson Broadcasting |
| Former callsigns | KTFH (1989–1998) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 49 (UHF, 1989-2009) Digital: 5 (VHF, 1998-2009) |
| Former affiliations | independent (1989) Galavisión (1989-1995) inTV (1995-1998) Pax Tv (1998-2005) i (2005-2007) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 579 m |
| Facility ID | 58835 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°34′15″N 95°30′37″W / 29.57083°N 95.51028°W |
| Website | www.ionline.tv |
KPXB-TV is an affiliate of the Ion Television network (formerly PAX and i), serving the Houston, Texas television market. It is owned by ION Media Networks, the former Paxson Communications. It broadcasts on one of two channels assigned to Conroe, the other being KTBU.
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[edit] History
The station went on the air as KTFH in 1989 mainly airing home shopping programming, and switched to airing programming from Galavisión in November of that same year.[1]
KTFH was sold to Paxson Communications in 1995. Paxson switched the station from Galavisión to Infomall Shopping Network on April 3, 1995,[2] and changed the station's call sign to KPXB at the start of 1998.
KPXB, along with other Paxson-owned stations, started airing the PAX network on August 31, 1998.
After the digital transition, KPXB moved its transmitter from east of Splendora to the Houston-area antenna farm southwest of Houston in unincorporated Fort Bend County near Missouri City.
[edit] Digital television
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
| Digital Channel |
Virtual Channel |
Programming |
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| 32.1 | 49.1 | Main KPXB programming |
| 32.2 | 49.2 | qubo |
| 32.3 | 49.3 | ION Life |
[edit] Former translator
KPXB formerly broadcast on a low-powered translator, KBPX-LP channel 33 in Houston, in order to improve its analog coverage in southern Houston since the full-power analog transmitter site was located in the far northern suburbs of Houston. This translator was shut down on June 30, 2009, two weeks after the digital transition, due to loss of access to the tower site.[3] KBPX-LP resumed operations November 22, 2010 on digital channel 46,[4] carrying The Country Network.[5]
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ Hodges, Ann (November 17, 1989). "Station to air Mexican newscasts". Houston Chronicle. http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1989_664540/station-to-air-mexican-newscasts.html. Retrieved September 14, 2011.
- ^ McDaniel, Mike (March 21, 1995). "Spanish-language TV station gets new owners, new format". Houston Chronicle. http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1995_1263473. Retrieved September 14, 2011.
- ^ "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". Federal Communications Commission. http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1321638&Service=TX&Form_id=910&Facility_id=17746. Retrieved August 9, 2010.
- ^ "Resumption of Operations". Federal Communications Commission. http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1408799&Form_id=910&Facility_id=17746. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
- ^ "Houston, It's Your Country!". PR Newswire. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/houston-its-your-country-110156874.html. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
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