WRPX-TV
| Rocky Mount/Raleigh, North Carolina | |
|---|---|
| Branding | ION Television |
| Channels | Digital: 15 (UHF) Virtual: 47 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | 47.1 Ion Television 47.2 qubo 47.3 ION Life |
| 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 (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 |
| Website | www.ionline.tv |
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. WRPX operates on UHF digital channel 15. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display WRPX's virtual channel as 47.1.
[edit] History
As part of the analog television and digital conversion, WRPX shut down its analog transmitter on channel 47, on June 12, 2009 at 12:00PM.
[edit] External links
- Ion Television website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WRPX
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WRPX-TV
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