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| City | Newton, Iowa |
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| History | |
First air date | August 31, 1998 (26 years ago) (1998-08-31) |
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Call sign meaning | Pax (reflecting network's former branding) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 81509 |
| ERP | 270 kW |
| HAAT | 564 m (1,850 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°48′35″N93°37′17″W / 41.80972°N 93.62139°W /41.80972; -93.62139 |
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| Website | iontelevision |
KFPX-TV (channel 39) is atelevision station licensed toNewton, Iowa, United States, broadcasting theIon Television network to theDes Moines area.Owned and operated by theIon Media subsidiary of theE. W. Scripps Company, the station maintains offices on 114th Street inUrbandale,[2] and its transmitter is located inAlleman, Iowa.
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The station began broadcasting on August 31, 1998; it was built and signed on by Paxson Communications as 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 KFPX-TV's owner, Ion Media, for $2.65 billion, with financing fromBerkshire Hathaway.[3] 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.[4]
For a short time in 2001, KFPX ran a prime time newscast produced byNBC affiliateWHO-TV (channel 13) to compete withFox affiliateKDSM-TV (channel 17)'sFox News at Nine (which WHO eventually took over fromCBS affiliateKGAN inCedar Rapids). After that newscast was canceled, KFPX reran WHO-TV's 10 p.m. newscasts on a30-minute delay until early 2005.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 39.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
| 39.2 | 480i | CourtTV | Court TV | |
| 39.3 | Laff | Laff | ||
| 39.4 | Mystery | Ion Mystery | ||
| 39.5 | IONPlus | Ion Plus | ||
| 39.6 | BUSTED | Busted | ||
| 39.7 | GameSho | Game Show Central | ||
| 39.8 | HSN | HSN | ||
| 39.9 | HSN2 | HSN2 |
KFPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 39, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 39.[6]
KFPX previously maintained transmitter facilities inBaxter, Iowa. Due to its short tower height, the station's broadcasting radius was largely confined to the immediate Des Moines area, although some southern and western suburbs may have had difficulty picking up the station's signal.[7] Therefore, KFPX relied on cable andsatellite carriage to reach the entire market. With the move to Alleman, KFPX now provides over-the-air coverage comparable to the market's other stations.
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