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| City | Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
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| History | |
First air date | May 3, 1997 (28 years ago) (1997-05-03) |
Former call signs | KTVC (1997–1998) |
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| inTV (1997–1998) | |
Call sign meaning | Pax Cedar Rapids |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 21156 |
| ERP | 215kW |
| HAAT | 451 m (1,480 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°17′43″N91°53′11″W / 42.29528°N 91.88639°W /42.29528; -91.88639 |
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Public license information | |
| Website | iontelevision |
KPXR-TV (channel 48) is atelevision station licensed toCedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, broadcasting theIon Television network to Eastern Iowa. It isowned and operated by theIon Media subsidiary of theE. W. Scripps Company, and maintains offices on Blairs Ferry Road Northeast in Cedar Rapids and a transmitter nearWalker, Iowa.
The station first signed on the air on May 3, 1997, as KTVC; it was originally an affiliate of the Infomall TV Network (inTV), a service operated byPaxson Communications that specialized inpaid programming. On August 31, 1998, KPXR 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.
On September 24, 2020, theCincinnati-basedE. W. Scripps Company announced it would purchase KPXR-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]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 48.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
| 48.2 | 480i | Grit | Grit | |
| 48.3 | Bounce | Bounce TV | ||
| 48.4 | Laff | Laff | ||
| 48.5 | IONPlus | Ion Plus | ||
| 48.6 | BUSTED | Busted | ||
| 48.7 | GameSho | Game Show Central | ||
| 48.8 | HSN | HSN | ||
| 48.9 | QVC | QVC |
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