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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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	\| call_letters = WWPX-TV<br>{{small\|(] of ], ]/])}}		\| call_letters = WWPX-TV<br><small>(] of ],<br>]/])</small>
	\| city = Martinsburg, West Virginia		\| city = Martinsburg, West Virginia
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	\| station_branding = Ion Television		\| station_branding = Ion Television
	\| analog =		\| analog =
	\| digital = 12 (])<br>~~{{small\|~~(to move to 13 (VHF))}}		\| digital = 12 (])<br>''(to move to 13 (VHF))''
	\| virtual = 60 (])		\| virtual = 60 (])
	\| subchannels =		\| subchannels =
	\| other_chs =		\| other_chs =
			\| affiliations = '''60.1:''' ] (''']''')<br>'''60.2:''' ]<br>'''60.3:''' ]<br>'''60.4:''' ]<br>'''60.5:''' ]<br>'''60.6:''' ]
	\| affiliations = {{ION DTV/text\|60}}
	\| network =		\| network =
	\| country = United States		\| country = United States
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	\| homepage = {{URL\|https://iontelevision.com/}}		\| homepage = {{URL\|https://iontelevision.com/}}
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	'''WWPX-TV''', ] 60 (] ] channel 12), 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> Owned by ], it is a ] of the main Ion station for the Washington area, ], ]-licensed ] (channel 66). WWPX-TV's transmitter is located on Boyds Gap west of Martinsburg; its parent station maintains studios in ].		'''WWPX-TV''', ] 60 (] ] channel 12), is an ] ] ] ] to ], ], ], 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> Owned by ], it is a ] of the main Ion station for the Washington area, ], ]-licensed ] (channel 66). WWPX-TV's transmitter is located on Boyds Gap west of Martinsburg; its parent station maintains studios in ].

	==History==		==History==

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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 a satellite 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 ("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.

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

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming
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

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. 38.
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.
"Trustee recommends WYVN-TV sale". Frederick News-Post. Associated Press. 2 September 1993. p. 14.
^ "Lights out at Martinsburg, W. Va., TV station". Frederick News-Post. Associated Press. 6 April 1994. p. 15.
"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.

External links

Broadcast television in the National Capitol Region (DMV)

This region includes the following cities: Washington, D.C.

Landover/Bethesda/Frederick, MD

Arlington/Fairfax/Fredericksburg/Winchester, VA

Martinsburg, WV

McConnellsburg, PA
Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

Full power

WRC-TV (4.1 NBC, 4.2 Cozi, 4.3 AmCrimes, 4.4 Oxygen)
WTTG (5.1 Fox, 5.2 Buzzr, 5.3 Start)
WJLA-TV (7.1 ABC, 7.2 Charge!, 7.3 Comet, 7.4 TBD)
WUSA (9.1 CBS, 9.2 Crime, 9.3 Quest, 9.4 Nest, 9.5 QVC)
WFDC-DT (14.1 UNI, 14.2 Get, 14.3 Grit, 14.4 UniMás)
WDCA (20.1 MNTV, 20.2 Movies!, 20.3 H&I, 20.4 Fox WX)
WMPT / WFPT (22.1/62.1 PBS/MPT, 22.2/62.2 MPT2/Create, 22.3/62.3 PBS Kids, 22.4/62.4 NHK)
WDCW (25.1 Ind., 50.1 CW, 50.2 ANT)
WETA-TV (26.1 PBS, 26.2 WETA UK, 26.3 PBS Kids, 26.4 World, 26.5 WETA Metro)
WHUT-TV (32.1 PBS, 32.2 PBS Kids)
WZDC-CD (44.1 TMD, 44.2 TXO)
WPXW-TV (66.1 Ion, 66.2 Bounce, 66.3 Court, 66.4 Laff, 66.5 Ion+, 66.6 Mystery, 66.7 Jewelry, 66.8 HSN)
WJAL (68.1 Merit, 68.2 Defy)

Low power

WDCN-LD (6.1 TCN)
WDCO-CD (10.1 TBD)
WDDN-LD / WDWA-LD (23.1 Daystar, 23.2 DS Español, 23.3 Reflections)
WMDO-CD (47.1 LATV)
WDME-CD (48.1 MeTV, 48.2 Story, 48.3 Catchy, 48.4 MeTV+, 48.5 MeToons, 48.6 Dabl, 48.12 OnTV4U)
WWTD-LD (49.2 HSN2, 49.3 QVC2, 49.4 NTD, 49.5 SBN, 49.6 LC)

ATSC 3.0

WHUT-TV (4.1 NBC, 5.1 Fox, 7.1 ABC, 9.1 CBS, 32.1 PBS)
WDCN-LD (6.1 TCN)
WIAV-CD (58.1 TBD, 58.4 WJLA 24/7 News)

Cable

Outlying areas

Dover, DE	WMDE (36.1/.8 LC, 36.2/.5 The365, 36.3 Heartland, 36.4 Retro, 36.6 Outlaw, 36.7 Arirang, 36.9 Binge)
Hagerstown, MD	WDVM-TV (25.1 Ind., 25.2 Mystery, 25.3 REW, 25.4 HSN) WWPB (31.1 PBS/MPT, 31.2 MPT2, 31.3 PBS Kids, 31.4 NHK World) W20EU-D (33.1 PBS, 33.2 PBS Kids, 43.1 Fox, 43.2 ANT)
Winchester, VA Martinsburg, WV	WHSV-TV (3.1 ABC, 3.2 NBC, 3.3 Ion, 3.4 MNTV/MeTV, 3.5 CBS) W08EE-D (24.1 PBS/WVPB, 24.2 World, 24.3 PBS Kids) WWPX-TV (60.1 Ion, 60.2 Bounce, 60.3 Court, 60.4 Laff, 60.5 Mystery, 60.6 Ion+, 60.7 Scripps, 60.8 HSN)

Defunct

Nominally a low-power station; shares spectrum with full-power WRC-TV.

Virginia broadcast television areas by city: Bristol; Bluefield; Charlottesville; Harrisonburg; Norfolk; Richmond; Roanoke; Washington, D.C.

Pennsylvania broadcast television: Erie; Harrisburg/Lancaster/Lebanon/York (Susquehanna Valley); Johnstown/Altoona/State College (Happy Valley); Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; Scranton/Wilkes-Barre

See also: Maryland TV; West Virginia TV

v t e Ion network affiliates licensed to and serving the Commonwealth of Virginia
Primary*	WHSV-DT 3.3 (Harrisonburg) WTVR-TV 6.5 (Richmond/Petersburg) WCAV-DT 19.4 (Charlottesville) WPXR-TV 38 (Roanoke/Lynchburg) WPXV-TV 49 (Norfolk) WPXW-TV 66 (Manassas/Washington, D.C.) WLFG-DT 68.3 (Grundy/Bristol/Kingsport/Johnson City, TN)
Secondary**	WGPX-TV 16 (Burlington/Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem, NC, serving Patrick County) WLFB-DT 40.3 (Bluefield/Beckley, WV, serving Tazewell County) WRPX-TV 47 (Rocky Mount/Raleigh/Durham, NC, serving Mecklenburg County)
() – indicates station is in one of Virginia's primary TV markets (*) – indicates station is in an out-of-state TV market, but reaches a small portion of Virginia See also ABC CBS CW Fox Ion MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in Virginia

Broadcast television stations by affiliation in the state of West Virginia

ABC

WOAY-TV 4 (Oak Hill–Beckley–Bluefield)*
WTAE-TV 4 (Pittsburgh, PA)**
WJLA-TV 7 (Washington, D.C.)**
WTRF-DT 7.3 (Wheeling/Steubenville, OH)*
WCHS-TV 8 (Charleston–Huntington)*
WBOY-DT 12.2 (Clarksburg)*
WSET-TV 13 (Lynchburg–Roanoke, VA)**

CBS

KDKA-TV 2 (Pittsburgh, PA)**
WDTV 5 (Weston–Clarksburg)*
WDBJ 7 (Roanoke–Lynchburg, VA)**
WTRF-TV 7 (Wheeling/Steubenville, OH)*
WUSA 9 (Washington, D.C.)**
WOWK-TV 13 (Huntington–Charleston)*
WIYE-LD 26 (Parkersburg)*
WVNS-TV 59 (Lewisburg)*

Fox

WTTG 5 (Washington, D.C.)**
WCHS-DT 8.2 (Charleston–Huntington)*
WTOV-DT 9.2 (Steubenville, OH/Wheeling)*
WVFX 10 (Clarksburg)*
WOVA-LD 22 (Parkersburg)*
WFXR 27 / WWCW-DT 21.2 (Roanoke–Lynchburg, VA)**
WPGH-TV 53 (Pittsburgh, PA)**
WVNS-DT 59.2 (Lewisburg)*

NBC

WSAZ-TV 3_{ATSC 3.0} (Huntington–Charleston)*
WRC-TV 4 (Washington, D.C.)**
WVVA 6 (Bluefield–Beckley)*
WTOV-TV 9 (Steubenville, OH/Wheeling)*
WSLS-TV 10 (Roanoke–Lynchburg, VA)**
WPXI 11 (Pittsburgh, PA)**
WBOY-TV 12 (Clarksburg)*
WTAP-TV 15 (Parkersburg)*

The CW

Broadcast	WVVA 6.2 (Bluefield–Beckley)* WVFX 10.2 (Clarksburg)* WWCW 21 / WFXR-DT 27.2 (Lynchburg–Roanoke, VA) WPNT 22_{ATSC 3.0} (Pittsburgh, PA) WQCW 30 (Portsmouth, OH/Huntington–Charleston)* WDCW 50 (Washington, D.C.)**
Cable-only	WBPB 3/80/97 (Parkersburg)* WBWO 18 (Wheeling–Steubenville, OH)*

MyNetworkTV

WSAZ-DT 3.2 (Huntington–Charleston)*
WTRF-DT 7.2 (Wheeling/Steubenville, OH)*
WDCA 20 (Washington, D.C.)**
WPNT 22_{ATSC 3.0} (Pittsburgh, PA)**
WZBJ 24 / WZBJ-CD 19_{ATSC 3.0} (Danville–Lynchburg, VA)**
WIYE-LD 47.2 (Parkersburg)*
WVNS-DT 59.2 (Lewisburg–Beckley–Bluefield)*

Ion

WTAP-DT 15.5 (Parkersburg)*
WINP-TV 16 (Pittsburgh, PA)**
WLPX-TV 29 (Charleston–Huntington)*
WPXR-TV 38 (Roanoke–Lynchburg, VA)**
WLFB 40.3 (Bluefield–Beckley)*
WWPX-TV 60 (Martinsburg)**

PBS (WVPB)

WSWP 9 (Grandview)
WNPB 24 (Morgantown)
WVPB 33 (Charleston–Huntington)

Other

WWVW-LD 8 (JTV, Wheeling)*
WVAH-TV 11 (Catchy, Charleston–Huntington)*
WFDC-DT 14 (UNI, Arlington, VA/Washington, D.C.)**
WUSV-LD 16 (ANT, Clarksburg)*
WPKD-TV 19 (Ind., Jeannette–Pittsburgh, PA)*
WDVM-TV 25 (Ind., Hagerstown, MD)**
W26EW-D 26 (HSN, Huntington)*
WLFB 40 (Ind., Bluefield–Beckley)*
WPCB-TV 40 (CTVN, Greensburg–Pittsburgh, PA)**
WZDC-CD 44 (TMD, Washington, D.C.)**
WTSF 61 (Daystar, Ashland, KY/Huntington–Charleston)*
WJAL 68 (ShopHQ, Silver Spring, MD/Washington, D.C.)**

(*) – indicates station is in one of West Virginia's primary TV markets
(**) – indicates station is in an out-of-state TV market, but reaches a small portion of West Virginia

v t e E. W. Scripps Company
sorted by primary channel network affiliations
ABC	KATC KERO-TV / KZKC-LD KGTV / KZSD-LD KGUN-TV KIVI-TV / KSAW-LD KMGH-TV / KZCO-LD KNXV-TV KTNV-TV KXXV / KRHD-CD WCPO-TV WEWS-TV WFTS-TV WKBW-TV WMAR-TV WRTV WTXL-TV WXYZ-TV
CBS	KMTV-TV KPAX-TV / KAJJ-CD KRTV / KXLH-LD KTVQ KXLF-TV / KBZK KZTV WTKR WTVF WTVR-TV
Independent	K22JA-D KASW KCDO-TV / KSBS-CD KMCC KMCI-TV KTNV-TV KUPX-TV KWBA-TV WACY-TV WGNT WHDT WMYD WSFL-TV
Fox	KSTU WFLX WFTX-TV WSYM-TV WXMI
NBC	KJRH-TV KOAA-TV KRIS-TV KSBY KSHB-TV KTVH-DT / KTGF-LD KTPX-TV WGBA-TV WLEX-TV WPTV-TV WTMJ-TV
Ion (O&O)	KFPX-TV KKPX-TV KPXB-TV KPXD-TV KPXG-TV KPXL-TV KPXM-TV KPXN-TV KPXR-TV KRTV / KXLH-LD KSPX-TV KTPX-TV KWPX-TV KXLF-TV / KBZK WBPX-TV / WPXG WCPX-TV WDPX-TV WEPX-TV / WPXU-TV WINP-TV WIPL WKOI-TV WLPX-TV WNPX-TV WOPX-TV WPPX-TV WPXA-TV WPXC-TV WPXE-TV WPXK-TV WPXL-TV WPXM-TV WPXN-TV WPXQ-TV WPXR-TV WPXW-TV / WWPX-TV WQPX-TV WRBU WRPX-TV WSPX-TV WTPX-TV WTVR-TV WXPX-TV WZRB
Other	The CW KTNV-TV Grit WDPX-TV Ion Mystery KZCS-LD MyNetworkTV WSYM-TV Scripps News KILM WFPX-TV WSFJ-TV Telemundo K47DF-D / KZTV
TV networks	Broadcast Bounce TV Court TV Grit Ion Television Ion Mystery Ion Plus Laff Scripps News
Defunct	Broadcast Defy Qubo TrueReal
Programming	Scripps Sports The List Right This Minute Yule Log
Acquisitions	Cordillera Communications Ion Media Journal Communications McGraw-Hill Katz Broadcasting
Digital	Scripps News
People	Adam P. Symson Rich Boehne Edward W. Estlow Jack R. Howard Roy W. Howard Ted Knap Jim G. Lucas Ernie Pyle Al Schottelkotte Charles Scripps E. W. Scripps
Related	National Journalism Awards Newspaper Enterprise Association National Spelling Bee Scripps Howard Foundation Scripps Networks Interactive United Feature Syndicate United Media Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co.
NOTES: Scripps operates KZTV under a shared services agreement with SagamoreHill Broadcasting. KNXV-TV provides an ATSC 1.0 simulcast of sister independent station KASW for non-ATSC 3.0 tuners and receivers. These stations broadcast these networks on their digital subchannels. KTNV-TV provides an ATSC 1.0 simulcast of Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned CW station KVCW for non-ATSC 3.0 tuners and receivers. WTVF provides an ATSC 1.0 simulcast of locally-owned and Sinclair Broadcast Group-operated Dabl station WNAB for non-ATSC 3.0 tuners and receivers. Scripps operates WFLX under a shared services agreement with Gray Television. WXYZ-TV provides an ATSC 1.0 simulcast of sister CW station WMYD for non-ATSC 3.0 tuners and receivers. KJRH-TV provides a standard definition simulcast of sister station, Ion Television O&O KTPX-TV. WFTS-TV provides an ATSC 1.0 simulcast of Hearst Television-owned independent station WMOR-TV for non-ATSC 3.0 tuners and receivers.

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