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| owner = ]<br>(]) | owner = ]<br>(])
| licensee = Ion Television License, ] | licensee = Ion Television License, ]
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'''WWPX-TV''' (channel 60) is a ] licensed to ], United States, broadcasting the ] network to 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|access-date=May 21, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060519131804/http://www.dcrtv.org/mediawt.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = May 19, 2006}}</ref> ] by ], the station maintains transmitter facilities on ] east of ]. '''WWPX-TV''' (channel 60) is a ] licensed to ], United States, broadcasting the ] network to 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|access-date=May 21, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060519131804/http://www.dcrtv.org/mediawt.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = May 19, 2006}}</ref> ] by the ] subsidiary of the ], the station maintains transmitter facilities on ] east of ].


WWPX-TV operates as a full-time ] of the main Ion station for the Washington area, ]–licensed ] (channel 66), whose offices are located in ]. WWPX covers areas of ], northern ], central ] and south-central ] that receive a marginal to non-existent ] signal from WPXW, although there is significant overlap between the two stations' ] otherwise. WWPX is a straight ] of WPXW; on-air references to WWPX are limited to ] (FCC)-mandated hourly ]s during programming. Aside from the transmitter, WWPX does not maintain any physical presence locally in Martinsburg. WWPX-TV operates as a full-time ] of the main Ion station for the Washington area, ]–licensed ] (channel 66), whose offices are located in ]. WWPX covers areas of ], northern ], central ] and south-central ] that receive a marginal to non-existent ] signal from WPXW, although there is significant overlap between the two stations' ] otherwise. WWPX is a straight ] of WPXW; on-air references to WWPX are limited to ] (FCC)-mandated hourly ]s during programming. Aside from the transmitter, WWPX does not maintain any physical presence locally in Martinsburg.

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Ion Television station in Martinsburg, West Virginia
WWPX-TV
Satellite of WPXW-TV,
Manassas, Virginia/Washington, D.C.
CityMartinsburg, West Virginia
Channels
BrandingIon
Programming
Affiliations60.1: Ion Television
60.2: Bounce TV
60.3: Court TV
60.4: Laff
60.5: Ion Mystery
60.6: Defy TV
60.7: Newsy
60.8: HSN
Ownership
Owner
Sister stationsWPXW-TV, WMAR-TV
History
FoundedMay 21, 1990
First air dateOctober 1, 1991 (33 years ago) (1991-10-01)
Former call signsWYVN (1991–1996)
WSHE-TV (1996–1998)
Former channel number(s)Analog:
60 (UHF, 1991–2009)
Digital:
12 (VHF, 2000–2020)
Former affiliationsAnalog/DT1:
Fox (1991–1993)
Independent (1993–1994)
Dark (1994–1996)
inTV (1996–1998)
DT2:
Qubo (2007–2021)
DT3:
Ion Plus (2007–2021)
DT4:
The Worship Network (20??–2010)
Ion Shop (201?–2021)
DT5:
HSN (until 2021)
DT6:
QVC (until 2021)
Call sign meaningWest Virginia's Pax; satellite of WPXW-TV
Technical information
Licensing authorityFCC
Facility ID23264
ClassDT
ERP4.2 kW
HAAT327.5 m (1,074 ft)
Transmitter coordinates39°14′21″N 77°46′16″W / 39.23917°N 77.77111°W / 39.23917; -77.77111
Links
Public license information
Websiteiontelevision.com

WWPX-TV (channel 60) is a television station licensed to Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the northwestern portion of the Washington, D.C. television market. Owned and operated by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, the station maintains transmitter facilities 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 offices 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 (now a Decades affiliate). 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. 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 on 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 change was made as a clean break with the troubled history of WYVN, but also to "park" a heritage call sign that Paxson had recently removed from one of its FM stations in Miami (now WMIB). 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.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect Short name Programming
60.1 720p 16:9 ION Ion Television
60.2 Bounce Bounce TV
60.3 480i CourtTV Court TV
60.4 Laff Laff
60.5 Mystery Ion Mystery
60.6 DeFy TV Defy TV
60.7 Newsy Newsy
60.8 HSN HSN

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

  1. "Facility Technical Data for WWPX-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. Hughes, Dave. "Washington DC/Baltimore Area TV Stations". dcrtv.com. Archived from the original on May 19, 2006. Retrieved May 21, 2006.
  3. "Martinsburg gets new TV station". Frederick News-Post. Associated Press. 2 October 1991. p. D-7.
  4. "W.Va. Judge Approves Sale of TV Station to Kentucky Company". Associated Press. 11 October 1993.
  5. "Trustee recommends WYVN-TV sale". Frederick News-Post. Associated Press. 2 September 1993. p. B-2.
  6. ^ "Lights out at Martinsburg, W. Va., TV station". Frederick News-Post. Associated Press. 6 April 1994. p. B-7.
  7. "WWPX-TV Facility Data". FCCData.
  8. "West Virginia Station Suspends News Programming". Associated Press. 16 February 1994.
  9. "TV station purchased". Cumberland Times-News. Associated Press. November 29, 1994. p. 2B. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  10. Foreman, David. "inTV Now On TV". Winchester Star. pp. C1, C3. Retrieved February 1, 2021.
  11. 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.
  12. "RabbitEars TV Query for WWPX". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-06.
  13. "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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