WFPX-TV
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| Fayetteville, North Carolina | |
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| Branding | ION Television |
| Channels | Digital: 36 (UHF) Virtual: 62 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | 62.1 Ion Television 62.2 qubo 62.3 ION Life |
| Owner | Ion Media Networks, Inc. (Ion Media License Company, LLC) |
| First air date | March 1985[1] |
| Call letters' meaning | Fayetteville's PaX |
| Former callsigns | WFCT (1985-1993) WFAY (1993-1998) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 62 (1985-2009) |
| Former affiliations | independent (1985-1994) Fox (1994-1998) Pax TV (1998-2005) i (2005-2007) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW (digital) |
| Height | 242 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 21245 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°53′5″N 79°4′29″W / 34.88472°N 79.07472°W |
| Website | www.ionline.tv |
WFPX-TV is one of two Ion Television affiliates for the Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina, USA, television market, licensed to nearby Fayetteville. The station is owned by ION Media Networks (the former Paxson Communications), and is a full-time satellite of WRPX. WFPX operates on UHF digital channel 36. Its transmitter is located in Lumber Bridge, North Carolina. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display WRPX's virtual channel as 62.1.
[edit] History
Channel 62 signed on in 1984 as WFCT, an independent broadcaster owned by Fayetteville/Cumberland Telecasters. Attorneys Robinson and Katherine Everett of Durham, founders of what is now present-day WRDC-TV in Raleigh, along with WJKA (now WSFX-TV) in Wilmington and WGGT (now WMYV) in Greensboro, were two of the principals in this company.
The station changed call letters to WFAY 1993 and became a Fox affiliate in 1994. Even though WFAY was located in the same market as WLFL (a Fox affiliate at the time), it mainly focused on communities located south of Fayetteville that did not get a good signal from WLFL. Some of its non-network programming was also simulcast to the Raleigh-Durham area on WRAY-TV for a couple of years in the mid-1990s until it was acquired by the Shop at Home network.
WFAY later became WFPX and dropped Fox after being bought out by Paxson in 1998. Later that year, newly-minted Fox station WFXB out of the Florence/Myrtle Beach market expanded its signal to cover areas formerly served by WFAY. It is worthy of note that WFPX's signal is not seen at all in the northern portion of the Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville market, but covers northern portions of the Florence-Myrtle Beach market, which does not have its own Ion affiliate.
As part of the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, WFPX-TV shut down its analog transmitter on channel 62, on June 12, 2009 at 12:00 PM.
[edit] External links
- ION Television website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WFPX
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WFPX-TV
[edit] References
- ^ The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says March 14, while the Television and Cable Factbook says March 4.
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