WPXX-TV

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WPXX-TV
  • kW
HAAT312 m (1,024 ft)
Transmitter coordinates35°12′41″N 89°48′54″W / 35.21139°N 89.81500°W / 35.21139; -89.81500
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Websiteiontelevision.com

WPXX-TV (channel 50) is a television station in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with Ion Television. Owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings, WPXX-TV maintains studios and transmitter facilities on Brother Boulevard in Bartlett, Tennessee. The station also serves as the de facto Ion outlet for the Jackson, Tennessee, and Jonesboro, Arkansas, markets.

History

The station first signed on the air on

Fox Sports Southeast
from the team's inception until sometime in the late 2000s.

On February 22, 2006,

Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created to compete against another upstart network that would launch at the same time that September, The CW (an amalgamated network that originally consisted primarily of UPN and The WB's higher-rated programs) as well as to give UPN and WB stations that were not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates another option besides converting to independent stations.[2][3] Although WLMT
(channel 30) had served as the market's UPN and WB affiliates, the MyNetworkTV affiliation instead went to WPXX, which officially joined the network (as a secondary affiliation) on September 5, 2006, branding itself as "My50 Memphis".

In mid-August 2007, Ion Media announced that it would purchase WPXX and sister station WPXL-TV in New Orleans outright from Flinn Broadcasting for $18 million.[4] The sale was approved by the Federal Communications Commission and was completed on January 2, 2008.[5]

On September 28, 2009, WPXX dropped MyNetworkTV programming as the network converted to a syndicated programming service. CW affiliate WLMT chose to pick up the MyNetworkTV affiliation, but only for the purposes of carrying

Retro Television Network programming (which would be dropped in November 2011 in favor of MeTV
) outside of prime time.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

multiplexed
:

Subchannels of WPXX-TV[6]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
50.1 720p
16:9
 ION Ion Television
50.2 480i CourtTV Court TV
50.3 Grit Grit
50.4 IONPlus Ion Plus
50.5 Busted
Busted
50.6 GameSho
Game Show Central
50.7 HSN HSN
50.8 QVC QVC
50.9 QVC2
QVC2

Analog-to-digital conversion

WPXX-TV ended regular programming on its analog signal, over

UHF channel 50, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[7] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 51, using virtual channel
50.

As part of the

SAFER Act, WPXX kept its analog signal on the air until June 26 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WPXX-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ "News Corp. to launch new mini-network for UPN stations". USA Today. February 22, 2006. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
  3. ^ News Corp. Unveils MyNetworkTV, Broadcasting & Cable, February 22, 2006.
  4. ^ "Ion Grabs Two Stations - 8/21/2007 12:02:00 PM - Broadcasting & Cable". Archived from the original on October 16, 2007. Retrieved August 22, 2007.
  5. ^ "Press". Archived from the original on February 22, 2008. Retrieved January 2, 2008.
  6. ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WPXX
  7. ^ List of Digital Full-Power Stations
  8. ^ "UPDATED List of Participants in the Analog Nightlight Program" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. June 12, 2009. Retrieved June 14, 2024.
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