KWPX-TV

KWPX-TV
Bellevue–Seattle–Tacoma, Washington; United States;
City	Bellevue, Washington
Channels	Digital: 33 (UHF); Virtual: 33;
Branding	Ion
Programming
Affiliations	33.1: Ion Television; for others, see § Subchannels;
Ownership
Owner	Ion Media; (Ion Media License Company, LLC);
History
First air date	May 17, 1989 (35 years ago)
Former call signs	KBGE (1989–1998)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 33 (UHF, 1989–2009); Digital: 32 (UHF, until 2009);
Former affiliations	Independent (1989–1991); ValueVision (1991–1998);
Call sign meaning	Washington State Pax
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	56852
ERP	400 kW
HAAT	716 m (2,349 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	47°30′16.3″N 121°58′10″W / 47.504528°N 121.96944°W
Links
Public license information	Public file; LMS;
Website	iontelevision.com

KWPX-TV (channel 33) is a television station licensed to Bellevue, Washington, United States, serving as the Ion Television outlet for the Seattle–Tacoma area. The station is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. KWPX-TV's offices are located on 304th Avenue Southeast in Preston, and its transmitter is located on West Tiger Mountain near Issaquah.

History

The station signed on the air as KBGE on May 17, 1989. Its original transmitter site was atop Columbia Center; the transmitter was later moved to West Tiger Mountain. The call letters became KWPX-TV on March 9, 1998, after the station was purchased by Paxson Communications, replacing ValueVision with its inTV network until the launch of Pax on August 31, 1998.^[2] The station was never a part of the early-2000s initiative by NBC to rebroadcast local newscasts a half-hour later on a Pax station, as KING-TV already featured newscasts on sister station KONG-TV.

Until 2021, the station carried Telemundo on its seventh subchannel, before Scripps' purchase of Ion Media nullified the agreement, in order to carry their own subchannel networks. Cox-owned KIRO-TV relaunched the network in the market in the fall of 2022 over subchannel 7.4.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KWPX-TV^[3]
Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
33.1	720p	16:9	ION	Ion Television
33.2	720p		CourtTV	Court TV
33.3	480i		Bounce	Bounce TV
33.4			Grit	Grit
33.5			IONPlus	Ion Plus
33.6			Mystery	Ion Mystery
33.7			Jewelry	Jewelry Television
33.8			QVC	QVC

Analog-to-digital conversion

KWPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 33, on February 17, 2009, to conclude the federally 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]

References

^ "Facility Technical Data for KWPX-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
^ Levesque, John (November 18, 1997). "Growing Paxson empire extends its reach into Seattle". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. p. D6.
^ "Digital TV Market Listing for KWPX". www.rabbitears.info.
^ List of Digital Full-Power Stations Archived August 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
^ CDBS Print

External links

Official website

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[1] "Facility Technical Data for KWPX-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.

[2] Levesque, John (November 18, 1997). "Growing Paxson empire extends its reach into Seattle". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. p. D6.

[3] "Digital TV Market Listing for KWPX". www.rabbitears.info.

[Analog_to_Digital-4] List of Digital Full-Power Stations Archived August 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine

[FCCForm387-5] CDBS Print

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