KPXD-TV

Coordinates: 32°35′25″N 96°58′24″W / 32.59028°N 96.97333°W / 32.59028; -96.97333
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KPXD-TV
  • kW
HAAT371.2 m (1,218 ft)
Transmitter coordinates32°35′25″N 96°58′24″W / 32.59028°N 96.97333°W / 32.59028; -96.97333
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Public license information
Websiteiontelevision.com

KPXD-TV (channel 68) is a

Owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, the station has offices on Six Flags Drive in Arlington, and its transmitter is located in Cedar Hill, Texas
.

History

The station first signed on the air on December 21, 1996, as KINZ-TV (in reference to its original affiliation with the Infomall TV Network (InTV), the predecessor-of-sorts of Ion Television), carrying

construction permit
to operate the station, which were changed prior to its sign-on. In early 1998, Paxson Communications (the forerunner to Ion Media) bought the station, and changed its call letters to KPXD-TV on January 13; the station became a charter owned-and-operated station of Paxson's new family-oriented broadcast network Pax TV (now Ion Television) when the network launched on August 31, 1998.

KPXD "Pax 68" logo, used from 1998 to 2005.

As part of a wide-ranging deal that gave

joint sales agreement with KXAS-TV
(channel 5; which NBC had owned 76% interest in at the time, it is now owned by the network outright).

In 2003, Pax TV decided to scale back its programming due to financial losses, resulting in much of the afternoon time slots on its stations' schedules being filled with infomercials. After Pax was rebranded as i: Independent Television on June 30, 2005, Worship Network programming moved to one of KPXD's digital subchannels (originally its third subchannel, then to its fourth subchannel after Ion Life (later Ion Plus) and Qubo launched, before Worship was dropped on January 31, 2010).

In September 2020, Ion Media was sold to the E. W. Scripps Company, marking the latter company's first entry into the Dallas–Fort Worth market. On February 27, 2021, shortly after the sale closed, Ion Plus and Qubo ceased broadcasting, and KPXD-DT2 and DT3 switched to

Newsy
was added to channel KPXD-DT7.

Newscasts

In September 2001, as part of the JSA with that station, KPXD began airing

tape delayed
rebroadcasts of NBC station KXAS-TV's 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts each Monday through Friday evening at 6:30 and 10:30 p.m. (the latter beginning shortly before that program's live broadcast ended on KXAS). The news rebroadcasts ended in 2003, two years before most of the network's other news share agreements with Pax TV stations were terminated upon the network's rebranding as i: Independent Television, as a result of the network's financial troubles.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

multiplexed
:

Subchannels of KPXD-TV[2]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
68.1 720p
16:9
ION Ion Television
68.2 Bounce Bounce TV
68.3 480i Laff Laff
68.4 Defy TV Defy TV
68.5 SCRIPPS Scripps News
68.6 Jewelry
Jewelry TV
68.7 HSN2 HSN2
68.8 HSN HSN

Analog-to-digital conversion

KPXD-TV shut down its analog signal, over

UHF channel 68, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[3] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 42, using virtual channel
68.

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KPXD-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ "Digital TV Market Listing for KPXD". www.rabbitears.info.
  3. ^ List of Digital Full-Power Stations Archived August 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine

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