WGPX-TV

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WGPX-TV
HAAT502.4 m (1,648 ft)[2]
Transmitter coordinates35°52′13.5″N 79°50′24″W / 35.870417°N 79.84000°W / 35.870417; -79.84000[2]
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Websiteiontelevision.com

WGPX-TV (channel 16) is a

Greensboro; its transmitter is located in Randleman, North Carolina.[2]

History

The station first signed on the air on August 7, 1984, as WRDG, originally operating as a

cartoons during the early mornings and afternoons in the fall of 1992, and some low-budget barter entertainment shows during the evening hours that winter. In 1991, WAAP ran a local newscast, titled News Source 16. Austin Caviness, now a meteorologist at WXII-TV
(channel 12), was among the on-air staffers; the newscast was canceled in 1992.

By 1993, WAAP had become a general entertainment station running mostly barter shows and

Big Three stations in the market, Fox affiliate WNRW (channel 45, now ABC affiliate WXLV-TV) and its satellite WGGT (channel 48, now MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYV), and WBFX (channel 20, now CW affiliate WCWG). The Triad market was not large enough at the time to support what were essentially three independent stations, and channel 16 barely registered in the ratings. The station originally desired to affiliate with UPN and/or The WB when those networks launched in January 1995, but both of them affiliated with other area stations instead (The WB with WBFX; UPN on a secondary basis with WXLV/WGGT). By the fall of that year, WAAP did manage to acquire a few syndicated cartoons from WXLV and WGGT when those stations took the ABC affiliation from WGHP
.

Paxson Communications bought the station in July 1996, and by the end of the year, WAAP became an affiliate of the Infomall Television Network (inTV), airing infomercials and religious programs for most of the day and overnight programming from The Worship Network. The station changed its call letters to WGPX-TV in January 1998, and became a charter owned-and-operated station of Pax TV (now Ion Television) when it launched on August 31 of that year.

The station broadcast its signal from a transmitter located in the

Snow Camp for many years. It later moved its transmitter to southern Rockingham County
.

On February 27, 2021, WGPX-TV's second, third and fourth subchannels switched to

Ion Shop
ceased broadcasting.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

multiplexed
:

Subchannels of WGPX-TV[3]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
16.1 720p
16:9
 ION Ion Television
16.2 Bounce Bounce TV
16.3 480i CourtTV Court TV
16.4 Laff Laff
16.5 IONPlus Ion Plus
16.6 Grit
  • Busted
    (eff. 3/1/2025)
16.7 Get TV Get
16.8 GameSho
Game Show Central
16.9 HSN2 HSN2


Analog-to-digital conversion

WGPX-TV shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009, as part of the FCC-mandated transition to digital television for full-power stations.[4] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 14, using virtual channel 16.

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WGPX-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ a b c d "Modification of a DTV Station Construction Permit Application". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. March 4, 2019. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
  3. ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WGPX
  4. ^ List of Digital Full-Power Stations
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