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| City | Uvalde, Texas |
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| History | |
First air date | February 19, 1999 (26 years ago) (1999-02-19) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 26 (UHF, 1999–2009) |
Call sign meaning | Pax TV |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 61173 |
| ERP | 228kW |
| HAAT | 521 m (1,709 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°37′12″N99°2′57.1″W / 29.62000°N 99.049194°W /29.62000; -99.049194 |
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Public license information | |
| Website | iontelevision |
KPXL-TV (channel 26) is atelevision station licensed toUvalde, Texas, United States, broadcasting theIon Television network to theSan Antonio area. Owned by theIon Media subsidiary of theE. W. Scripps Company, KPXL-TV maintains transmitter facilities offHighway 173/RM Road 689 on theMedina–Bandera county line (west-northwest ofLakehills).
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The station began broadcasting on February 19, 1999; it was built and signed on by Paxson Communications as an owned-and-operated 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.
On September 24, 2020, theCincinnati-basedE. W. Scripps Company announced it would purchase KPXL-TV's owner, Ion Media, for $2.65 billion, with financing fromBerkshire Hathaway.[2] Part of the deal included divesting 23 stations nationally to Inyo Broadcast Holdings (then-undisclosed at the time of the announcement) that would maintain Ion affiliations.[3]
From 2000 to 2004, KPXL aired rebroadcasts ofNBC affiliate KMOL-TV (channel 4)'s newscasts at 6:30 and 10:30 p.m. (KMOL-TV becameWOAI-TV in 2002). KPXL was also an affiliate ofThe News of Texas from 1999 to 2000.[4]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 26.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
| 26.2 | 480i | CourtTV | Court TV | |
| 26.3 | Laff | Laff | ||
| 26.4 | Mystery | Ion Mystery | ||
| 26.5 | IONPlus | Ion Plus | ||
| 26.6 | BUSTED | Busted | ||
| 26.7 | GameSho | Game Show Central | ||
| 26.8 | HSN | HSN | ||
| 26.9 | HSN2 | HSN2 |
Because it was granted an originalconstruction permit after theFCC finalized theDTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997,[6] the station did not receive a companion channel for a digitaltelevision station. KPXL-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, overUHF channel 26, on June 12, 2009. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 26.[7]
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