WLPX-TV

{{Short description|Television station in Charleston, West Virginia}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}}

{{Infobox television station

| callsign = WLPX-TV

| city = Charleston, West Virginia

| logo =

| branding =

| analog =

| digital = 18 (UHF)

| virtual = 29

| subchannels =

| translators =

| affiliations = {{ubl|29.1: Ion Television|for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}}}

| network =

| owner = Ion Media

| licensee = Ion Television License, LLC

| location = {{ubl|CharlestonHuntington–|Parkersburg, West Virginia|Marietta, Ohio}}

| country = United States

| founded = October 27, 1988

| airdate = {{start date and age|1998|8|31|p=y}}

| last_airdate =

| callsign_meaning = Charleston's Pax

| sister_stations =

| former_callsigns = WKRP-TV (August–October 1998)

| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|Analog: 29 (UHF, 1998–2009)|Digital: 39 (UHF, 2001–2019)}}

| former_affiliations =

| erp = 765 kW

| haat = {{convert|327.2|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}

| class =

| facility_id = 73189

| coordinates = {{coord|38|30|21.1|N|82|12|32.3|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}

| licensing_authority = FCC

| website = {{URL|https://iontelevision.com/}}

}}

WLPX-TV (channel 29) is a television station licensed to Charleston, West Virginia, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Charleston–Huntington market. The station is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, and has offices on Prestige Park Drive in Hurricane; its transmitter is located near Milton, West Virginia.

History

After originating as a construction permit in 1987 and receiving several extensions, WLPX-TV applied for its license on September 11, 1998.{{cite web |title=WLPX-TV Facility Data |url=https://fccdata.org/?facid=&call=WLPX |website=FCCData |publisher=REC Networks}} In the construction phase and for its first month on air, the station's calls were WKRP (the same as the fictional radio station in Cincinnati); it adopted its current call sign on October 5 of the same year. It has been a member of Ion (previously known as Pax TV and i: Independent Television) since its inception.

Technical information

=Subchannels=

The station's signal is multiplexed:

class="wikitable"

|+Subchannels of WLPX-TV{{Cite web|url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WLPX#station|title=Digital TV Market Listing for WLPX|website=RabbitEars.info|accessdate=November 29, 2024}}

! scope = "col" | Channel

! scope = "col" | Res.

! scope = "col" | Aspect

! scope = "col" | Short name

! scope = "col" | Programming

scope = "row" | 29.1

| 720p || rowspan="9"|16:9 || ION || Ion Television

scope = "row" | 29.2

| rowspan="8"|480i || CourtTV || Court TV

scope = "row" | 29.3

| Bounce || Bounce TV

scope = "row" | 29.4

| Laff || Laff

scope = "row" | 29.5

| IONPlus || Ion Plus

scope = "row" | 29.6

| Busted || Busted

scope = "row" | 29.7

| GameSho || Game Show Central

scope = "row" | 29.8

| HSN || HSN

scope = "row" | 29.9

| QVC || QVC

=Analog-to-digital conversion=

WLPX-TV ended regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 29, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 39, using virtual channel 29.{{cite web |url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |access-date=March 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 |url-status=dead }}

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