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| City | Roanoke, Virginia |
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| History | |
| Founded | May 23, 1983 |
First air date | January 3, 1986 (1986-01-03) |
Former call signs | WEFC (1986–1998) |
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Call sign meaning | Pax TV Roanoke |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 70251 |
| ERP | 609kW[2] |
| HAAT | 623.6 m (2,046 ft)[2] |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°11′56″N80°9′0″W / 37.19889°N 80.15000°W /37.19889; -80.15000[2] |
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| Website | iontelevision |
WPXR-TV (channel 38) is atelevision station licensed toRoanoke, Virginia, United States, broadcasting theIon Television network to the Roanoke–Lynchburgmarket. The station isowned and operated by theIon Media subsidiary of theE. W. Scripps Company, and maintains a transmitter atopPoor Mountain in unincorporated southwesternRoanoke County.
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The station signed on January 3, 1986, as WEFC, areligious station owned by EvangelFoursquare Church (hence the call letters). It was the first non-network affiliated station in Roanoke, and the first new UHF station in the market to sign on following the demise ofWRLU channel 27 nearly 11 years earlier. Coincidentally, a new channel 27, under the calls of WVFT, would sign on two months after WEFC, carrying a similar format.
Paxson Communications bought the station in 1997 and made it part of the all-infomercial inTV network. It joined Pax TV (later i: Independent Television and now Ion Television) on the network's launch in 1998.
From September 1996 until August 1997,WDBJ produced a 10 p.m. newscast,News 7 Primetime, for WEFC; the newscast was canceled due to low ratings.[3] From 2000 to 2005, WPXR aired rebroadcasts ofWSLS-TV's newscasts as part of ajoint sales agreement between Paxson Communications and WSLS ownerMedia General.[4]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 38.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
| 38.2 | 480i | CourtTV | Court TV | |
| 38.3 | Laff | Laff | ||
| 38.4 | Mystery | Ion Mystery | ||
| 38.5 | IONPlus | Ion Plus | ||
| 38.6 | BUSTED | Busted | ||
| 38.7 | GameSho | Game Show Central | ||
| 38.8 | HSN | HSN | ||
| 38.9 | QVC | QVC |
WPXR-TV ended regular programming on its analog signal, overUHF channel 38, 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 36, usingvirtual channel 38.[6]
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