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{{short description|Ion Television station in Martinsburg, West Virginia}} | {{short description|Ion Television station in Martinsburg, West Virginia}} | ||
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{{Infobox television station | ||
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| callsign = WWPX-TV | ||
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| above = ] of ],<br>]/] | ||
| city |
| city = Martinsburg, West Virginia | ||
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| logo = <!-- Commented out: ] --> <!--Station does not use its own logo--> | ||
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| slogan = ''Positively Entertaining'' | ||
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| branding = Ion Television | ||
| analog |
| analog = | ||
| digital |
| digital = 13 (]) | ||
| virtual |
| virtual = 60 (]) | ||
| subchannels |
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| translators = | ||
| affiliations |
| affiliations = '''60.1:''' ] (''']''')<br>'''60.2:''' ]<br>'''60.3:''' ]<br>'''60.4:''' ]<br>'''60.5:''' ]<br>'''60.6:''' ] | ||
| network |
| network = | ||
| country |
| country = United States | ||
| founded |
| founded = May 21, 1990 | ||
| airdate |
| airdate = {{start date and age|1991|10|1|p=y}} | ||
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| last_airdate = | ||
| location |
| location = ]/<br>]/<br>] | ||
| callsign_meaning |
| callsign_meaning = '''W'''est Virginia's '''P'''a'''X'''; satellite of ] | ||
| former_callsigns |
| former_callsigns = WYVN (1991–1996)<br>WSHE-TV (1996–1998) | ||
| former_channel_numbers |
| former_channel_numbers = '''Analog:'''<br>60 (], 1991–2009)<br>'''Digital:'''<br>12 (VHF, 2009–2020) | ||
| owner |
| owner = ] | ||
| licensee |
| licensee = Ion Media Martinsburg License, Inc. | ||
| sister_stations |
| sister_stations = WPXW-TV | ||
| former_affiliations |
| former_affiliations = ] (1991–1993)<br>] (1993–1994)<br>] (1994–1996)<br>inTV (1996–1998) | ||
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| erp = 4.2 ] | ||
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| haat = {{convert|327.5|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} | ||
| class |
| class = ] | ||
| facility_id |
| facility_id = 23264 | ||
| coordinates |
| coordinates = {{nowrap|{{coord|39|14|21|N|77|46|16|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}}} | ||
| licensing_authority |
| licensing_authority = ] | ||
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| website = {{URL|https://iontelevision.com/}} | ||
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'''WWPX-TV''', ] 60 (] ] channel 13), is an ] ] ] to ], United States and serving the northwestern portion of the ] ].<ref>{{cite web|last=Hughes|first=Dave|url=http://www.dcrtv.org/mediawt.html|title=Washington DC/Baltimore Area TV Stations|publisher=dcrtv.com|accessdate=May 21, 2006 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060519131804/http://www.dcrtv.org/mediawt.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = May 19, 2006}}</ref> The station is owned by ]-based ]. WWPX-TV's transmitter is located on ] east of ]. | '''WWPX-TV''', ] 60 (] ] channel 13), is an ] ] ] to ], United States and serving the northwestern portion of the ] ].<ref>{{cite web|last=Hughes|first=Dave|url=http://www.dcrtv.org/mediawt.html|title=Washington DC/Baltimore Area TV Stations|publisher=dcrtv.com|accessdate=May 21, 2006 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060519131804/http://www.dcrtv.org/mediawt.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = May 19, 2006}}</ref> The station is owned by ]-based ]. WWPX-TV's transmitter is located on ] east of ]. | ||
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WYVN was forced off the air when Flying A went into ] on September 17, 1993. A sale to ] owner Benchmark Communications, who would have converted the station to ] affiliate WUSQ-TV, was worked out and approved by the station's bankruptcy trustee, but fell through at the last minute; the license was instead sold to Green River Broadcasting, who returned the station to air on September 24 while it worked out a financing plan.<ref>{{cite news |title=Trustee recommends WYVN-TV sale |work=Frederick News-Post |agency=Associated Press |date=2 September 1993 |page=B-2 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-02-1993-1816504/}}</ref><ref name="fnp">{{cite news |title=Lights out at Martinsburg, W. Va., TV station |work=Frederick News-Post |agency=Associated Press |date=6 April 1994 |page=B-7 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-apr-06-1994-1816506/}}</ref> Having lost its Fox affiliation, WYVN soldiered on as an independent, and briefly attempted a return of local news from January through February 1994.<ref>{{cite web |title=WWPX-TV Facility Data |url=https://fccdata.org/?lang=en&facid=23264 |website=FCCData |ref=fd}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=West Virginia Station Suspends News Programming |url=https://www.apnews.com/cd5ccbe92f2801792bcff78be2d095b8 |agency=Associated Press |date=16 February 1994}}</ref> The station remained unable to emerge from bankruptcy; the studio and equipment were sold to its creditors April 1, 1994, and they locked out the staff and suspended broadcasting.<ref name="fnp" /> ] acquired the license out of bankruptcy for $1.9 million in late 1994.<ref>{{cite news|work=Cumberland Times-News|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-nov-29-1994-1816512/|date=November 29, 1994|accessdate=June 17, 2020|agency=Associated Press|title=TV station purchased|page=2B}}</ref> | WYVN was forced off the air when Flying A went into ] on September 17, 1993. A sale to ] owner Benchmark Communications, who would have converted the station to ] affiliate WUSQ-TV, was worked out and approved by the station's bankruptcy trustee, but fell through at the last minute; the license was instead sold to Green River Broadcasting, who returned the station to air on September 24 while it worked out a financing plan.<ref>{{cite news |title=Trustee recommends WYVN-TV sale |work=Frederick News-Post |agency=Associated Press |date=2 September 1993 |page=B-2 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-02-1993-1816504/}}</ref><ref name="fnp">{{cite news |title=Lights out at Martinsburg, W. Va., TV station |work=Frederick News-Post |agency=Associated Press |date=6 April 1994 |page=B-7 |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-apr-06-1994-1816506/}}</ref> Having lost its Fox affiliation, WYVN soldiered on as an independent, and briefly attempted a return of local news from January through February 1994.<ref>{{cite web |title=WWPX-TV Facility Data |url=https://fccdata.org/?lang=en&facid=23264 |website=FCCData |ref=fd}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=West Virginia Station Suspends News Programming |url=https://www.apnews.com/cd5ccbe92f2801792bcff78be2d095b8 |agency=Associated Press |date=16 February 1994}}</ref> The station remained unable to emerge from bankruptcy; the studio and equipment were sold to its creditors April 1, 1994, and they locked out the staff and suspended broadcasting.<ref name="fnp" /> ] acquired the license out of bankruptcy for $1.9 million in late 1994.<ref>{{cite news|work=Cumberland Times-News|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-nov-29-1994-1816512/|date=November 29, 1994|accessdate=June 17, 2020|agency=Associated Press|title=TV station purchased|page=2B}}</ref> | ||
The station returned again on September 1, 1996, as '''WSHE-TV''', a Paxson station that aired the company's standard ] format, with ] in some dayparts. The station changed its call letters to WWPX at the beginning of 1998 and became a charter member of Pax TV along with most of Paxson's other stations on August 31 of that year. It has remained with the network, later known as i: Independent Television and now known as Ion Television, ever since. |
The station returned again on September 1, 1996, as '''WSHE-TV''', a Paxson station that aired the company's standard ] format, with ] in some dayparts. The station changed its call letters to WWPX at the beginning of 1998 and became a charter member of Pax TV along with most of Paxson's other stations on August 31 of that year. It has remained with the network, later known as i: Independent Television and now known as Ion Television, ever since. | ||
WWPX was originally a full affiliate of Pax. In 2002, it converted to a satellite of WPXW. The station could no longer afford its own staff of five master-control operators, and becoming a satellite allowed it to carry only the legal minimum of one manager and one engineer.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Greene|first1=Julie|title=Financial woes hit area TV stations|url=http://articles.herald-mail.com/2002-02-01/news/25141352_1_paxson-communications-tv-stations-airs|work=Hagerstown Herald-Mail|date=1 February 2002|language=en|access-date=25 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180426011900/http://articles.herald-mail.com/2002-02-01/news/25141352_1_paxson-communications-tv-stations-airs|archive-date=26 April 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> | WWPX was originally a full affiliate of Pax. In 2002, it converted to a satellite of WPXW. The station could no longer afford its own staff of five master-control operators, and becoming a satellite allowed it to carry only the legal minimum of one manager and one engineer.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Greene|first1=Julie|title=Financial woes hit area TV stations|url=http://articles.herald-mail.com/2002-02-01/news/25141352_1_paxson-communications-tv-stations-airs|work=Hagerstown Herald-Mail|date=1 February 2002|language=en|access-date=25 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180426011900/http://articles.herald-mail.com/2002-02-01/news/25141352_1_paxson-communications-tv-stations-airs|archive-date=26 April 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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Ion Television station in Martinsburg, West VirginiaSatellite of WPXW-TV, Manassas, Virginia/Washington, D.C. | |
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City | Martinsburg, West Virginia |
Channels | |
Branding | Ion Television |
Programming | |
Affiliations | 60.1: Ion Television (O&O) 60.2: Qubo 60.3: Ion Plus 60.4: Ion Shop 60.5: HSN 60.6: QVC |
Ownership | |
Owner |
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Sister stations | WPXW-TV |
History | |
Founded | May 21, 1990 |
First air date | October 1, 1991 (33 years ago) (1991-10-01) |
Former call signs | WYVN (1991–1996) WSHE-TV (1996–1998) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 60 (UHF, 1991–2009) Digital: 12 (VHF, 2009–2020) |
Former affiliations | Fox (1991–1993) Independent (1993–1994) Dark (1994–1996) inTV (1996–1998) |
Call sign meaning | West Virginia's PaX; satellite of WPXW-TV |
Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 23264 |
Class | DT |
ERP | 4.2 kW |
HAAT | 327.5 m (1,074 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 39°14′21″N 77°46′16″W / 39.23917°N 77.77111°W / 39.23917; -77.77111 |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Website | iontelevision |
WWPX-TV, virtual channel 60 (VHF digital channel 13), is an Ion Television owned-and-operated station licensed to Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States and serving the northwestern portion of the Washington, D.C. television market. The station is owned by West Palm Beach, Florida-based Ion Media Networks. WWPX-TV's transmitter is located on Blue Ridge Mountain east of Charles Town, West Virginia.
WWPX-TV operates as a full-time satellite of the main Ion station for the Washington area, Manassas, Virginia-licensed WPXW-TV (channel 66), whose studios are located in Fairfax Station, Virginia. WWPX covers areas of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle, northern Virginia, central Maryland and south-central Pennsylvania that receive a marginal to non-existent over-the-air signal from WPXW, although there is significant overlap between the two stations' contours otherwise. WWPX is a straight simulcast of WPXW; on-air references to WWPX are limited to Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-mandated hourly station identifications during programming. Aside from the transmitter, WWPX does not maintain any physical presence locally in Martinsburg.
History
Channel 60 signed on October 1, 1991 as WYVN ("Your Valley News"), with studios located in a renovated barn on Discovery Place in Martinsburg. WYVN was the second Fox affiliate in West Virginia, behind Charleston's WVAH-TV. Unusually for Fox stations in the network's early years, WYVN made a commitment from the beginning to local news and public affairs programming. However, owner Flying A Communications found itself in financial trouble due to the cost of the local news operation and poor ratings from competition with Washington, D.C.-based stations. In addition to this, the station was beset by technical issues; its signal would go back and forth between black and white and color. A Fox network employee was reportedly sent to Martinsburg to investigate this matter, and was appalled by the sight of the station running The Simpsons episode "Lisa the Beauty Queen" in black and white; management responded by saying "we don't even have an engineer." Flying A Communications filed for bankruptcy in October 1992, and the station suspended newscasts in May 1993.
WYVN was forced off the air when Flying A went into receivership on September 17, 1993. A sale to WUSQ-FM owner Benchmark Communications, who would have converted the station to CBS affiliate WUSQ-TV, was worked out and approved by the station's bankruptcy trustee, but fell through at the last minute; the license was instead sold to Green River Broadcasting, who returned the station to air on September 24 while it worked out a financing plan. Having lost its Fox affiliation, WYVN soldiered on as an independent, and briefly attempted a return of local news from January through February 1994. The station remained unable to emerge from bankruptcy; the studio and equipment were sold to its creditors April 1, 1994, and they locked out the staff and suspended broadcasting. Paxson Communications acquired the license out of bankruptcy for $1.9 million in late 1994.
The station returned again on September 1, 1996, as WSHE-TV, a Paxson station that aired the company's standard infomercial format, with religious programming in some dayparts. The station changed its call letters to WWPX at the beginning of 1998 and became a charter member of Pax TV along with most of Paxson's other stations on August 31 of that year. It has remained with the network, later known as i: Independent Television and now known as Ion Television, ever since.
WWPX was originally a full affiliate of Pax. In 2002, it converted to a satellite of WPXW. The station could no longer afford its own staff of five master-control operators, and becoming a satellite allowed it to carry only the legal minimum of one manager and one engineer.
Digital television
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming |
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60.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
60.2 | 480i | 4:3 | qubo | Qubo |
60.3 | IONPlus | Ion Plus | ||
60.4 | Shop | Ion Shop | ||
60.5 | HSN | HSN | ||
60.6 | QVC | QVC |
Analog-to-digital conversion
WWPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 60, 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 VHF channel 12. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 60, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.
References
- "Facility Technical Data for WWPX-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- Hughes, Dave. "Washington DC/Baltimore Area TV Stations". dcrtv.com. Archived from the original on May 19, 2006. Retrieved May 21, 2006.
- "Martinsburg gets new TV station". Frederick News-Post. Associated Press. 2 October 1991. p. D-7.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-10-14. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - "W.Va. Judge Approves Sale of TV Station to Kentucky Company". Associated Press. 11 October 1993.
- "Trustee recommends WYVN-TV sale". Frederick News-Post. Associated Press. 2 September 1993. p. B-2.
- ^ "Lights out at Martinsburg, W. Va., TV station". Frederick News-Post. Associated Press. 6 April 1994. p. B-7.
- "WWPX-TV Facility Data". FCCData.
- "West Virginia Station Suspends News Programming". Associated Press. 16 February 1994.
- "TV station purchased". Cumberland Times-News. Associated Press. November 29, 1994. p. 2B. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
- Greene, Julie (1 February 2002). "Financial woes hit area TV stations". Hagerstown Herald-Mail. Archived from the original on 26 April 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- "RabbitEars TV Query for WWPX". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-06.
- "DTV Tentative Channel Designation for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
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