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| City | Rocky Mount, North Carolina |
| Channels | |
| Branding | Ion |
| Programming | |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | |
| WFPX-TV | |
| History | |
| Founded | March 26, 1991 (1991-03-26) |
First air date | July 8, 1992 (33 years ago) (1992-07-08) |
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| Independent (1992–1998) | |
Call sign meaning | Raleigh's Pax TV |
| Technical information[2] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 20590 |
| ERP | 170kW[3] |
| HAAT | 563.8 m (1,850 ft)[3] |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°49′52.8″N78°8′42.8″W / 35.831333°N 78.145222°W /35.831333; -78.145222[3] |
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Public license information | |
| Website | iontelevision |
WRPX-TV (channel 47) is atelevision station licensed toRocky Mount, North Carolina, United States, broadcasting theIon Television network to theResearch Triangle region. It isowned and operated by theIon Media subsidiary of theE. W. Scripps Company alongsideArcher Lodge–licensedBounce TV outletWFPX-TV (channel 62). WRPX-TV and WFPX-TV share a sales office on Gresham Lake Road inRaleigh; through achannel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WRPX-TV's spectrum from a tower northeast ofMiddlesex, North Carolina.
WRPX's signal was previouslyrelayed on WFPX; WRPX served the northern half of themarket, including Raleigh,Durham andChapel Hill, while WFPX served the southern part, includingFayetteville andSouthern Pines.
| License | Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| WRPX-TV | 47.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
| 47.2 | 480i | CourtTV | Court TV | ||
| 47.3 | IONPlus | Ion Plus | |||
| 47.4 | GameSho | Game Show Central | |||
| 47.5 | CRIME | True Crime Network | |||
| 47.6 | BUSTED | Busted | |||
| 47.8 | QVC | QVC | |||
| WFPX-TV | 62.1 | 720p | Bounce | Bounce TV |
WRPX-TV ended regular programming on its analog signal, overUHF channel 47, at noon 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 continued to broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 15, usingvirtual channel 47.[5]
WRPX-TV moved from channel 15 to channel 32 on September 11, 2019.
In recent years, WRPX-TV has been carried oncable in multiple areas within theGreenville andWilmingtonmedia markets.[6]
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| ABC | ||
| CBS | ||
| Fox | ||
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| Ion Television | ||
| Independent | ||
| PBS | ||
| Religious | ||
| Spanish | ||
| Other | ||
| ATSC 3.0 | ||
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