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| City | San Jose, California |
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| History | |
First air date | November 15, 1986 (39 years ago) (1986-11-15) |
Former call signs | KLXV-TV (1986–1998) |
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Call sign meaning | "Pax" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 22644 |
| ERP | 510 kW |
| HAAT | 432 m (1,417 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°41′14.4″N122°26′5.3″W / 37.687333°N 122.434806°W /37.687333; -122.434806 |
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| Website | iontelevision |
KKPX-TV (channel 65) is atelevision station licensed toSan Jose, California, United States, serving as theIon Television outlet for theSan Francisco Bay Area. The station isowned and operated by theIon Media subsidiary of theE. W. Scripps Company, and has offices on Price Avenue inRedwood City; its transmitter is located atopSan Bruno Mountain.
The station first signed on the air on November 15, 1986, as KLXV-TV (the last three letters of the callsign representing theRoman numeral for 65) and was an affiliate of theTrinity Broadcasting Network. In 1995, the station became an affiliate of theinfomercial service InTV. In January 1998, the station's call letters were changed to KKPX after Paxson Communications (now Ion Media) bought the station. KKPX became a charter owned-and-operated station of Pax TV (the predecessor of Ion Television, to which the network was renamed in 2007) on August 31.
From 2000 to 2005, KKPX, during weeknights, aired rebroadcasts ofKNTV (channel 11)'s 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts at 7 and 11:30 p.m. instead of airing newscasts from then-NBC affiliateKRON-TV (channel 4). The newscasts were originally branded asNewsChannel 11 on Pax after KNTV switched its affiliation fromABC toThe WB. When KNTV joined NBC in January 2002, the newscasts were first renamed toNBC 3 News on Pax, then toNBC 11 News on Pax several months later, after KNTV stopped branding by its common channel number on Bay Area cable systems. Like most other such arrangements involving Pax stations and major network affiliates, the simulcasts were dropped on June 30, 2005 (the day prior to Pax's rebranding as i: Independent Television).
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 65.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
| 65.2 | 480i | Bounce | Bounce TV | |
| 65.3 | CourtTV | Court TV | ||
| 65.4 | IONPlus | Ion Plus | ||
| 65.5 | Laff | Laff | ||
| 65.6 | Grit | Busted | ||
| 65.7 | GameSho | Game Show Central | ||
| 65.8 | QVC | QVC |
KKPX-TV had plans for aMobile DTV feed of subchannel 65.1.[3][4] A Mobile DTV feed did later launch, but it carried programming from 65.2 (Qubo).
KKPX-TV shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 65, on June 12, 2009, as part of thefederally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[5] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 41, usingvirtual channel 65.
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