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Channel 60 signed on October 1, 1991 as '''WYVN''', a ] affiliate, with studios located on Discovery Road in Martinsburg. A news department was quickly set up, and offered more news than other stations in the area. However, Flying A Communications, the owner, found itself in financial trouble, due to this local news commitment and relatively poor ratings (partially caused by its location on ], which was higher than other stations). In addition to this, the station's signal would go back and forth between ] and ]. A Fox network employee was sent to investigate this matter, and was appalled by the sight of the station running '']'' episode "]" in black and white; management responded by saying "we don't even have an engineer."<ref>https://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?451691-Worst-TV-stations-ever&p=5362857&viewfull=1#post5362857</ref> Flying A Communications filed for bankruptcy in October 1992, and the station suspended newscasts in May 1993.<ref name="ap1">{{cite news |title=W.Va. Judge Approves Sale of TV Station to Kentucky Company |url=https://www.apnews.com/0bde3c1dcc5aaa860ba0beefb3b1a5cf |agency=Associated Press |date=11 October 1993}}</ref> | ||
| After being forced off the air that September as a sale to ] owner Benchmark Communications (who would have converted the station to a ] affiliate under the WUSQ-TV callsign) fell through, the station was sold to Green River Broadcasting. 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 returned again on September 1, 1996, as '''WSHE-TV''', a ] 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 ] 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. | ||
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WWPX-TV, virtual channel 60 (VHF digital channel 12), is an Ion Television owned-and-operated television station licensed to Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States, and serving the northwestern portion of the Washington, D.C. television market. Owned by Ion Media Networks, it is currently a relay of the main Ion station for the Washington area, Manassas, Virginia-licensed WPXW-TV (channel 66). WWPX-TV's transmitter is located on Boyds Gap west of Martinsburg; its parent station maintains studios in Fairfax Station, Virginia.
History
Channel 60 signed on October 1, 1991 as WYVN, a Fox affiliate, with studios located on Discovery Road in Martinsburg. A news department was quickly set up, and offered more news than other stations in the area. However, Flying A Communications, the owner, found itself in financial trouble, due to this local news commitment and relatively poor ratings (partially caused by its location on cable, which was higher than other stations). In addition to this, the station's signal would go back and forth between black and white and color. A Fox network employee was sent 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.
After being forced off the air that September as a sale to WUSQ-FM owner Benchmark Communications (who would have converted the station to a CBS affiliate under the WUSQ-TV callsign) fell through, the station was sold to Green River Broadcasting. WYVN soldiered on as an independent, and briefly attempted a return of local news from January through February 1994.
The station returned again on September 1, 1996, as WSHE-TV, a Paxson Communications 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
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
- Hughes, Dave. "Washington DC/Baltimore Area TV Stations". dcrtv.com. Archived from the original on May 19, 2006. Retrieved May 21, 2006.
- https://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?451691-Worst-TV-stations-ever&p=5362857&viewfull=1#post5362857
- "W.Va. Judge Approves Sale of TV Station to Kentucky Company". Associated Press. 11 October 1993.
- "WWPX-TV Facility Data". FCCData.
- "West Virginia Station Suspends News Programming". Associated Press. 16 February 1994.
- Greene, Julie (1 February 2002). "Financial woes hit area TV stations". Hagerstown Herald-Mail.
- RabbitEars TV Query for WWPX
- "DTV Tentative Channel Designation for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.
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