WUPX-TV
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WUPX-TV is an Ion Television owned-and-operated television station serving Lexington, Kentucky, United States that is licensed to Morehead. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 21 (or virtual channel 67 via PSIP) from a transmitter on McCausey Ridge in Menifee County. Owned by Ion Media Networks, WUPX maintains a sales office on McCausey Ridge Road in Frenchburg, Kentucky.[1]
Even though WUPX transmits a digital signal of its own, the broadcasting radius of the station's full-power signal does not reach the far western portions of the market (including the state capital of Frankfort). Therefore, it must rely on cable and satellite carriage to cover these areas.
History
A construction permit for WAOM was issued in October 1993.[2] The station really signed on the air on June 1, 1998 as WAOM, a repeater of UPN-affiliated WBLU-LP, which broadcast on UHF channel 62. It was known on air as UPN 62 and UPN 67. Both stations simulcast programming from UPN and The WB and infomercials until WAOM was sold off in 2001. After WAOM was sold, WBLU-LP lost both the WB and UPN in 2003 and 2004, respectively, to become independent, and at some points became affiliated with MyNetworkTV and RTV. Currently, WBLU-LP is no longer broadcasting as it went dark in 2008.
In 2001, WAOM-TV was sold to Paxson Communications, became a Pax TV affiliate and changed its letters to the current WUPX. PAX became i: Independent Television in 2005, and then Ion Television in 2007.
Digital television
The station's digital channel is multiplexed: Template:ION DTV[3]
Analog-to-digital conversion
WUPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 67, 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 21.[4] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 67, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.
TV spectrum repack
WUPX will plan to move its channel allocation from digital channel 21 to digital channel 25 and it will remain on virtual channel 67 once is completed.[5]
References
- ^ "WUPX Station Information". Ion Media. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
- ^ WUPX-TV MOREHEAD, KY @ RabbitEars.Info
- ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WUPX
- ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WUPX
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