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First air date | September 2, 1987 (37 years ago) (1987-09-02) |
Former call signs | KUBD (1987–1998) |
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Call sign meaning | Pax Colorado (reflecting network's former branding) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 68695 |
| ERP | 330kW |
| HAAT | 329.6 m (1,081 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°5′47.3″N104°54′5.9″W / 40.096472°N 104.901639°W /40.096472; -104.901639 |
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| Website | iontelevision |
KPXC-TV (channel 59) is atelevision station inDenver, Colorado, United States, affiliated withIon Television. Owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings, the station maintains offices on South Jamaica Court inAurora, and its transmitter is located in rural southwesternWeld County, east ofFrederick.
The station first signed on the air on September 10, 1987, as KUBD. Originally operating as anindependent station, the station aired financial news programming from theFinancial News Network during the daytime hours and ran a general entertainment schedule at night. In 1989, KUBD became the original Denver area affiliate of theSpanish-language networkTelemundo. FNN ceased operations two years later, when it was absorbed byCNBC. In 1995, KUBD was sold by its original ownership group (which included satellite TV entrepreneurCharlie Ergen) to Christian Network, Inc. (CNI), a non-profit organization co-founded byBud Paxson, for $6.5 million.[2] That year, KUBD switched toinfomercial programming from inTV, and Telemundo programming moved to KSBS-TV (nowKRMZ). The CNI stations, including KUBD, were sold to Paxson Communications in 1996.
The station changed itscall letters to KPXC-TV on February 2, 1998; KPXC became a charter owned-and-operated station of Paxson's new family-oriented broadcast network Pax TV (now Ion Television) when the network launched on August 31, 1998. In2001, KPXC obtained the local television rights to carry selectNHL games featuring theColorado Avalanche; the deal to broadcast the games ended in2003.
On December 15, 2014, Ion reached a deal to donate KPXC-TV's low-power repeater inFort Collins,KPXH-LD (channel 25), to Word of God Fellowship, parent company of theDaystar Television Network.[3]
In September 2001, as part of itsjoint sales agreement with that station (the result of an overall deal between Pax TV andNBC), KPXC-TV began airingtape delayed rebroadcasts ofGannett's NBC affiliateKUSA-TV (channel 9)'s 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts each Monday through Friday evening at 6:30 and 10:30 p.m. (the latter beginning shortly before that program's live broadcast ended on KUSA). The news rebroadcasts ended on June 30, 2005, when the network's other news share agreements with major network affiliates throughout the United States were terminated upon the network's rebranding as i: Independent Television, as a result of the network's financial troubles.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 59.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
| 59.2 | Bounce | Bounce TV | ||
| 59.3 | 480i | CourtTV | Court TV | |
| 59.4 | IONPlus | Ion Plus | ||
| 59.5 | Laff | |||
| 59.6 | Grit | Grit | ||
| 59.7 | GameSho | Game Show Central | ||
| 59.8 | HSN | HSN2 |
KPXC-TV shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 59, 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 43, usingvirtual channel 59.[5]
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(*) – indicates station is in one of Colorado's primaryTV markets (**) – indicates station is in an out-of-state TV market, but reaches a small portion of Colorado | ||
