WPXS
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| WPXS | |
|---|---|
| Mount Vernon, Illinois | |
| Channels | |
| Translators | KUMO-LP 51 St. Louis |
| Affiliations | Daystar Television Network (KUMO-LP only) Independent (1983-1998 & 2009-present) |
| Owner | Word of God Fellowship, Inc. (operated by Equity Media Holdings Corporation) (WPXS, Inc.) |
| First air date | March 1983[2] |
| Call letters’ meaning | Pax TV Southern Illinois -or- Pax TV St. Louis |
| Former callsigns | WCEE (1983-1998) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 13 (1983-2009) |
| Former affiliations | Pax TV (1998-2004) RTN (2005-2009) |
| Transmitter Power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 91 m |
| Facility ID | 40861 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | 38°41′19″N 89°33′38″W / 38.68861°N 89.56056°W |
WPXS and KUMO-LP were the two Retro Television Network affiliates serving Southern Illinois and the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area. WPXS is in the Paducah-Cape Girardeau-Harrisburg television market but is close enough to St. Louis to serve that area as well. KUMO-LP is the satellite station of WPXS. It serves the St. Louis metropolitan area on channel 51. The stations are owned by the Word Of God Fellowship, and managed by Equity Media Holdings, programmed via satellite from Equity's Little Rock, Arkansas headquarters.
WPXS is based out of Mount Vernon, Illinois and broadcasts to Southern Illinois on channel 13. Their transmitter is located north of Kell, Illinois. The call letters of WPXS stand for Pax Southern Illinois, reflecting the former Pax affiliation. WPXS aired Pax network programming from August, 1998 until late 2004. Pax itself changed its name to i in September of the following year, and then to ION in 2007.
The digital broadcast for WPXS-DT is currently airing on channel 13.1. The digital broadcast for KUMO-LD will be on channel 10, which is not on the air as of May 22, 2008.
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[edit] History
The precursor to WPXS started operating in March of 1983. Before becoming WPXS in 1998, this station operated as WCEE "C-13." WCEE was an independent television station which showed a mix of syndicated programs, movies, and reruns, as well as some Chicago Bulls NBA Basketball games during the winter months and some Major League Baseball games of the Chicago Cubs and White Sox during the summer months. WCEE was also unusual for a small-market television station because it produced a 30-minute newscast on weekdays, and also carried PM Magazine. ([1])
On January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity and Luken Communications, L.L.C. (who had acquired RTN in June 2008) interrupted the programming on many RTN affiliates.[3] As a result, Luken moved RTN operations to its headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and dropped all Equity-owned affiliates, including WPXS and KUMO, immediately, though Luken vows to find a new affiliate for RTN in the area.[4]
Equity has been moving stations to This TV affiliation in order to make up for the loss of RTN programming.[5]
[edit] Older logos
 Earlier possible non-broadcast logo. |
[edit] External links
- FCC Decision on WCEE must-carry in the St. Louis area
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WPXS
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WPXS-TV
[edit] References
- ^ Tvnewsday, WPXS
- ^ The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says March 1, while the Television and Cable Factbook says March 13.
- ^ What’s Wrong with MyTV?
- ^ TV Newsday: "Financial Dispute Disrupts RTN Diginet", 1/5/2009.
- ^ Meteorites were found in area, Roger Schlueter, Belleville (IL) News-Democrat, March 1, 2009
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