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| City | Jellico, Tennessee |
| Channels | |
| Branding | Ion |
| Programming | |
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| History | |
First air date | January 1993 (32 years ago) (1993-01) |
Former call signs | WPMC (1993–1998) |
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| HSN (1993–1998, now on DT8) | |
Call sign meaning | Pax TV Knoxville |
| Technical information[2] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 52628 |
| ERP | 1,000kW[1] |
| HAAT | 512.5 m (1,681 ft)[1] |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°0′19″N83°56′23″W / 36.00528°N 83.93972°W /36.00528; -83.93972[1] |
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Public license information | |
| Website | iontelevision |
WPXK-TV (channel 54) is atelevision station licensed toJellico, Tennessee, United States, broadcasting theIon Television network to theKnoxville area.Owned and operated by theIon Media subsidiary of theE. W. Scripps Company, the station has offices on Executive Park Drive in west Knoxville, and its transmitter is located onSharp's Ridge inNorth Knoxville.[1] Despite Jellico being WPXK-TV's city of license, the station maintains no physical presence there.
Signing on the air in 1993 as WPMC with a small coverage area, it offered primarilyreligious andhome shopping programming until August 1998 when it became WPXK-TV, joining the Pax TV network (the predecessor to Ion) and greatly increasing its signal coverage across the entire Knoxville market.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 54.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
| 54.2 | 480i | CourtTV | Court TV | |
| 54.3 | Laff | Laff | ||
| 54.4 | Mystery | Ion Mystery | ||
| 54.5 | IONPlus | |||
| 54.6 | GameSho | Game Show Central | ||
| 54.7 | QVC | QVC | ||
| 54.8 | HSN | HSN | ||
| 54.9 | QVC2 | QVC2 |
WPXK-TV shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 54, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 23, usingvirtual channel 54.[4]
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Includes stations in out-of-state TV markets, but reaching a portion of Tennessee | ||
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| Fox | ||
| NBC | ||
| The CW | ||
| Ion Television | ||
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Broadcast television stations by affiliation in the Commonwealth ofKentucky | ||
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Includes stations in out-of-state TV markets, but reaching a portion of Kentucky | ||
| ABC | ||
| CBS | ||
| Fox | ||
| NBC | ||
| The CW | ||
| Ion Television | ||
| Independent | ||
| PBS | ||
| Religious | ||
| Spanish | ||
| Other | ||
| ATSC 3.0 | ||
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