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First air date | March 16, 1996 (29 years ago) (1996-03-16) |
Former call signs | KMNZ (1996–1998) |
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| inTV (1996–1998) | |
Call sign meaning | Oklahoma's Pax TV |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 2566 |
| ERP | 200kW |
| HAAT | 467.26 m (1,533.01 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°34′7″N97°29′21″W / 35.56861°N 97.48917°W /35.56861; -97.48917 |
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| Website | iontelevision |
KOPX-TV (channel 62) is atelevision station inOklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated withIon Television. Owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings, the station maintains offices on Railway Drive in north Oklahoma City, and its transmitter is located near 122nd Street on the city's northeast side.
The station first signed on the air on March 16, 1996, as KMNZ; it was originally an affiliate of the Infomall TV Network (inTV), a service operated byPaxson Communications that specialized inpaid programming. On August 31, 1998, KOPX became a charter station of the family-oriented Pax TV network (later reformatted into a general entertainment service as i: Independent Television, now Ion Television), withreligious programming fromThe Worship Network airing during the overnight hours.
In November 2002, in relation to agreements between Pax TV and several major network affiliates (most of which were affiliated withNBC, which held a minority interest in Pax), KOPX began airingtape delayed rebroadcasts of morning and late evening newscasts from NBC affiliateKFOR-TV (channel 4). The 6 a.m. hour of the morning newscast aired on a one-hour tape delay (at 7 a.m.), while the 10 p.m. newscast aired on a half-hour delay (at 10:30 p.m.), with the latter beginning shortly before the live 10 p.m. newscast on KFOR-TV ended.[2] The news share agreement ended on June 30, 2005 (coinciding with Pax's rebranding as i: Independent Television), due to Paxson Communications' decision to discontinue carriage of network affiliate newscasts as a result of Pax's financial troubles.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 62.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
| 62.2 | Bounce | Bounce TV | ||
| 62.3 | 480i | CourtTV | Court TV | |
| 62.4 | MOVIES! | Movies! | ||
| 62.5 | BUSTED | Busted | ||
| 62.6 | GameSho | Game Show Central | ||
| 62.7 | ShopLC | Shop LC | ||
| 62.8 | HSN | HSN |
KOPX-TV began transmitting adigital television signal on UHF channel 50 on November 1, 2002. The station ended regular programming on its analog signal, overUHF channel 62, on June 12, 2009, as part of thefederally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[4] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 50, usingvirtual channel 62.
As a part of therepacking process following the2016–2017 FCC incentive auction, KOPX-TV relocated to UHF channel 18 in 2019.[5]
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