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| City | Bellevue, Washington |
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| History | |
First air date | May 17, 1989 (36 years ago) (1989-05-17) |
Former call signs | KBGE (1989–1998) |
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Call sign meaning | Washington State Pax |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 56852 |
| ERP | 400kW |
| HAAT | 716 m (2,349 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 47°30′16.3″N121°58′10″W / 47.504528°N 121.96944°W /47.504528; -121.96944 |
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| Website | iontelevision |
KWPX-TV (channel 33) is atelevision station licensed toBellevue, Washington, United States, serving as theIon Television outlet for theSeattle–Tacoma area. The station isowned and operated by theIon Media subsidiary of theE. W. Scripps Company. KWPX-TV's offices are located on 304th Avenue Southeast inPreston, and its transmitter is located onWest Tiger Mountain nearIssaquah.
The station signed on the air as KBGE on May 17, 1989. Its original transmitter site was atopColumbia Center; the transmitter was later moved toWest Tiger Mountain. The call letters became KWPX-TV on March 9, 1998, after the station was purchased by Paxson Communications, replacingValueVision with its inTV network until the launch of Pax on August 31, 1998.[2] The station was a part of the early-2000s initiative by NBC to rebroadcast local newscasts a half-hour later on a Pax station; whileKING-TV already featured newscasts on sister stationKONG, KING-TV also rebroadcast its weeknight 11 p.m. newscasts on KWPX at 11:30 p.m.; these rebroadcasts were dropped in 2003.[citation needed]
Until 2021, the station carriedTelemundo on its seventh subchannel, before Scripps' purchase of Ion Media nullified the agreement, in order to carry their subchannel networks.Cox-ownedKIRO-TV relaunched the network in the market in the fall of 2022 over subchannel 7.4.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 33.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
| 33.2 | CourtTV | Court TV | ||
| 33.3 | 480i | Bounce | Bounce TV | |
| 33.4 | Grit | Defy | ||
| 33.5 | IONPlus | Ion Plus | ||
| 33.6 | BUSTED | Busted | ||
| 33.7 | GameSho | Game Show Central | ||
| 33.8 | QVC | QVC |
KWPX-TV shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 33, on February 17, 2009, to conclude thefederally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[4] The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 32 to channel 33.[5]
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