List of Ion Television affiliates
Ion Television is an American broadcast, cable and satellite television network owned by Ion Media Networks, which was launched on August 31, 1998 as Pax TV. As of January 2016, the network currently has 59 owned-and-operated stations, and current and pending affiliation agreements with 15 other television stations, with most of its owned-and-operated stations incorporating the letters "PX" in their call signs (in reference to the original name of the network, itself derived in part from its corporate parent's former name until 2007, Paxson Communications) and all but one carrying the network as a primary channel affiliation.[1][2] Ion Television also distributes its base national programming feed directly to cable, satellite and IPTV providers in various media markets not listed here, as an alternative method of distribution in areas without a locally based owned-and-operated or affiliate station.
This article is a listing of current, pending and former Ion Television affiliates in the continental United States (including subchannel affiliates, satellite stations and select low-power translators), arranged alphabetically by state, and based on the station's city of license and followed in parentheses by the Designated Market Area if it differs from the city of license. There are links to and articles on each of the broadcast stations, describing their histories, technical information (such as broadcast frequencies) and any local programming.
The station's virtual (PSIP) channel number follows the call letters, and is itself followed by the station's actual digital channel number, which are listed as separate columns. The article also includes a list of its former affiliate stations, which is based strictly on the station's city of license or market, and denotes the years in which the station served as an affiliate under either its Pax TV, i: Independent Television and/or Ion Television identities as well as the current status of the corresponding channel that carried the network.
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Notes:
- Two boldface asterisks appearing following a station's call letters (**) indicate a station that was an original Ion Television owned-and-operated station from the network's inception as Pax TV in August 1998;
- This list includes Ion Media Networks-owned stations, which are also listed separately from its affiliated stations in the article List of stations owned and operated by Ion Media Networks.
- This list does not include sister networks Qubo and Ion Life, which are carried on digital subchannels of most of the stations listed.
| City of license/Market | Station[1] | Virtual channel |
Physical channel |
Year of affiliation |
Ownership | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gadsden (Birmingham) | WPXH-TV** | 44 | 45 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Mobile | WKRG-TV | 5.2 | 27 | 2015 | Media General | |
| Anchorage | KDMD | 33 | 32 | 1998 | Ketchikan Television LLC | |
| Fairbanks | KDMD-LP | 32 | 32 | 1998 | ||
| Tolleson (Phoenix) | KPPX-TV | 51 | 51 | 1999 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Tucson | KHRR | 40.3 | 40 | 2014 | NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations | |
| Merced (Fresno) | KNSO | 51.3 | 11 | 2014 | NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations (operated by ZGS Communications) | |
| Sacramento–Stockton –Modesto | KSPX-TV** | 29 | 48 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| San Bernardino (Los Angeles) | KPXN-TV** | 30 | 38 | 1998 | ||
| San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland | KKPX-TV** | 65 | 41 | 1998 | ||
| Colorado Springs | KXRM-TV | 21.3 | 22 | 2015 | Media General | |
| Cortez | K22CU-D | 22.3 | 22 | 2011 | Southwest Colorado TV Translator Association | |
| Denver | KPXC-TV** | 59 | 43 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| New London (Hartford–New Haven) | WHPX-TV** | 26 | 26 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Wilmington (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) | WPPX-TV** | 61 | 31 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Bradenton (Tampa–St. Petersburg) | WXPX-TV** | 66 | 42 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Lake Worth (West Palm Beach–Boca Raton–Fort Pierce) | WPXP-TV** | 67 | 36 | 1998 | ||
| Melbourne (Orlando) | WOPX-TV** | 56 | 48 | 1998 | ||
| Miami | WPXM-TV** | 35 | 35 | 1998 | ||
| Augusta | WJBF | 6.3 | 42 | 2015 | Media General | |
| Brunswick (Jacksonville, Florida) | WPXC-TV | 21 | 24 | 2000 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Rome–Atlanta | WPXA-TV** | 14 | 31 | 1998 | ||
| Kaneohe (Honolulu) | KPXO-TV** | 66 | 41 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Chicago | WCPX-TV** | 38 | 43 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| East St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri) | WRBU[3][4] | 46 | 47 | 2014 | ||
| Bloomington (Indianapolis) | WIPX-TV** | 63 | 27 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Evansville | WAZE-LP | 17 | 19 | |||
| Fort Wayne | WANE-TV | 15.3 | 31 | 2015 | Media General | |
| Lafayette | WLFI-TV | 18.3 | 11 | 2015 | ||
| Terre Haute | WTHI-TV | 10.3 | 10 | 2015 | ||
| Cedar Rapids | KPXR-TV** | 48 | 47 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Davenport | KWQC-TV | 6.2 | 36 | 2015[5] | Media General | |
| Mason City Rochester-Austin-Albert Lea, Minnesota | KIMT | 3.3 | 42 | |||
| Newton–Des Moines | KFPX-TV** | 39 | 39 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Wichita | KSNW | 3.3 | 45 | 2015 | Media General | |
| Louisville | WBNA | 21 | 8 | 1998 | Evangel World Prayer Center | |
| Morehead (Lexington) | WUPX-TV | 67 | 21 | 2001 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Lafayette | KLFY-TV | 10.3 | 10 | 2015 | Media General | Launched November 11, 2015 as a result of an agreement between Media General and Ion Networks to add the subchannel in markets with no Ion O&O |
| New Orleans | WPXL-TV | 49 | 50 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Boston | WBPX-TV | 68 | 32 | 1999 | Ion Media Networks | |
| W40BO | 40 | 40 | 1999 | Operates as a repeater of WBPX-TV | ||
| Dennis/Cape Cod | WMPX-LP | 33 | 33 | 1999 | ||
| Springfield/Hoyloke | WWLP WFXQ-CD | 22.3 | 11 28 | 2015 | Media General | WFXQ-CD operates as a translator of WWLP |
| Vineyard Haven | WDPX-TV | 58.2 | 40 | 1999 | Ion Media Networks | Operates as a satellite station of WBPX-TV |
| Ann Arbor (Detroit) | WPXD-TV** | 31 | 50 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Battle Creek (Grand Rapids and Lansing) | WZPX-TV** | 44 | 44 | 1998 | ||
| Lansing | WLNS-TV | 6.3 | 36 | 2015 | Media General | |
| La Crescent, Minnesota (La Crosse, Wisconsin) | KQEG-CA | 23 | 23 | 2013 | Magnum Radio, Inc. | |
| St. Cloud (Minneapolis–St. Paul) | KPXM-TV** | 41 | 40 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Hattiesburg-Laurel | WHLT | 22.3 | 22 | 2015 | Media General | |
| Kansas City | KPXE-TV** | 50 | 30 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Pahrump | KPVM-LP | 41 | 46 | 1998 | Pahrump Video Media | |
| Paradise–Las Vegas | KBLR | 39.3 | 40 | 2014 | NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations | |
| Concord | WPXG-TV | 21.2 | 33 | 1999 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Santa Fe (Albuquerque) | KASA-TV | 2.3 | 27 | 2015 | Media General | |
| Amityville | WPXU-LD | 12 | 12 | 1998 | Word of God Fellowship | Operates as a repeater of WPXN-TV |
| Amsterdam (Albany) | WYPX-TV** | 55 | 50 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Batavia (Buffalo and Rochester) | WPXJ-TV | 51 | 18 | 1999 | ||
| New York City | WPXN-TV** | 31 | 31 | 1998 | ||
| Syracuse | WSPX-TV | 56 | 15 | 1998 | ||
| Burlington (Greensboro– Winston-Salem–High Point) | WGPX-TV** | 16 | 14 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Fayetteville | WFPX-TV** | 62 | 36 | 1998 | ||
| Greenville | WEPX-TV | 38 | 51 | 1998 | WEPX/WPXU maintained a secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV from that network's launch in September 2006 until September 2009, following the closure of Flinn Broadcasting Corporation's sale of the station to Ion Media Networks; WPXU-TV operates as a satellite station of WEPX-TV | |
| Jacksonville | WPXU-TV | 35 | 34 | 1999 | ||
| Rocky Mount (Raleigh–Durham) | WRPX-TV** | 47 | 15 | 1998 | ||
| Akron–Cleveland | WVPX-TV** | 23 | 23 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Columbus | WCMH-TV | 4.3 | 14 | 2015 | Media General | |
| Springfield–Dayton | WBDT | 26.3 | 26 | 2015 | Vaughan Media, LLC (operated by Media General) | Previously with Ion (then Pax) from 1998 to 2004 (as a secondary affiliation after 1999); Paxson Communications sold the station, then using the calls WDPX, to ACME Communications in 1999 |
| Youngstown | WKBN-TV | 27.3 | 41 | 2015 | Media General | |
| Oklahoma City | KOPX-TV** | 62 | 50 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Okmulgee (Tulsa) | KTPX-TV** | 44 | 28 | 1998 | ||
| Cottage Grove | K14LP-D | 14 | 14 | 1998 | South Lane Television | Operates as a repeater of KPXG-TV |
| Portland | KPXG-LD | 42 | 42 | 1998 | Word of God Fellowship | |
| Salem (Portland) | KPXG-TV** | 22 | 22 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Harrisburg | WHTM-TV | 27.2 | 10 | 2015 | Media General | |
| Pittsburgh | WINP-TV | 16 | 38 | 2013 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Scranton–Wilkes-Barre | WQPX-TV** | 64 | 32 | 1998 | ||
| Toa Baja (San Juan) | W25EF-D | 25 | 25 | 2015 | TV Red de Puerto Rico, Inc. | |
| Block Island (Providence) | WPXQ-TV** | 69 | 17 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Charleston | WCBD-TV | 2.3 | 50 | 2015 | Media General | |
| Columbia | WZRB | 47.1 | 47 | 2013 | Ion Media Networks | WZRB retained a secondary affiliation with The CW (carrying only prime time shows from that network) following Ion Media's purchase of the station from Roberts Broadcasting until MyNetworkTV affiliate WKTC added the network as a primary affiliation in March 2014.[6] |
| Spartanburg-Greenville | WSPA-TV | 7.3 | 7 | 2015 | Media General | |
| Rapid City | KCLO-TV | 15.2 | 16 | 2015 | Media General | Operates as a satellite station of KELO-TV |
| Sioux Falls | KELO-TV | 11.3 | 11 | 2015 | ||
| Cookeville (Nashville) | WNPX-TV** | 28 | 36 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Jellico (Knoxville) | WPXK-TV** | 54 | 23 | 1998 | ||
| Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol | WJHL-TV | 11.3 | 11 | 2015 | Media General | |
| Memphis | WPXX-TV | 50 | 51 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Arlington–Dallas | KPXD-TV** | 68 | 42 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Austin | KXAN-TV | 36.3 | 21 | 2015 | Media General | |
| Conroe–Houston | KPXB-TV** | 49 | 24 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Uvalde (San Antonio) | KPXL-TV | 26 | 26 | 1999 | ||
| Christiansted | WSVI | 8 | 20 | 2016 | Atlas News & Information Services, Inc. | |
| Charlotte Amalie | WZVI | 43 | 43 | Digital-only satellite station | ||
| Provo–Salt Lake City | KUPX-TV** | 16 | 29 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Manassas (Washington, D.C.) | WPXW-TV** | 66 | 43 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Norfolk | WPXV-TV** | 49 | 46 | 1998 | ||
| Petersburg–Richmond | WRIC-TV | 8.2 | 22 | 2015 | Media General | |
| Roanoke | WPXR-TV** | 38 | 36 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Bellevue–Seattle | KWPX-TV** | 33 | 33 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Spokane | KGPX-TV | 34 | 34 | 1999 | ||
| Charleston | WLPX-TV** | 29 | 39 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Martinsburg | WWPX-TV** | 60 | 12 | 1998 | Operates as satellite of WPXW-TV, Manassas, Virginia | |
| Antigo (Wausau) | WTPX-TV** | 46 | 46 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Green Bay | WBAY-TV | 2.3 | 23 | 2015 | Media General | |
| Kenosha (Milwaukee) | WPXE-TV** | 55 | 40 | 1998 | Ion Media Networks | |
| Tomah | WEZY-LP | 51 | 51 | 2013 | Magnum Radio, Inc. | Operates as a repeater of KQEG-CA, La Crescent, Minnesota |
Former affiliates
| City of license/Market | Station | Current ownership | Years of affiliation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albuquerque, New Mexico | KTFQ-DT 14 | Univision Communications (operated by Entravision Communications Corporation) |
1999–2003 | Paxson Communications sold the station, then using the calls KAPX-TV, to Univision Communications in 2002; now operating as an UniMás owned-and-operated station |
| Bangor, Maine | WBGR-LP 33 | Maine Family Broadcasting, Inc. | 1998–2014 | Now operates as a Me-TV affiliate |
| Baraboo, Wisconsin | W43BR 43 | Baraboo Broadcasting | 1998–2012 | Now operates as a Family Channel affiliate |
| Baton Rouge, Louisiana | WLFT-CD 30 | Touch Family Broadcasting | 1998–2003 | Was affiiated with the network (as Pax TV) during WLFT's existence as a cable-only channel; now operates as a Me-TV affiliate |
| Champaign–Springfield–Decatur, Illinois | WBUI 23 | GOCOM Media of Illinois LLC (operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group) |
1998–1999 | Paxson Communications sold the station, then using the calls WPXU, to ACME Communications in 1999; now a CW affiliate |
| Charlottesville, Virginia | WAHU-CD 27 | Gray Television | 1998–2005 | Station used the call letters WADA-LP during its affiliation with Pax TV; now operates as a Fox affiliate |
| Cleveland, Mississippi | WHCQ-LD 9 | Ellington Broadcasting System | 1998–2013 | Now operates as a MyNetworkTV affiliate |
| Clarksdale, Mississippi | WPRQ-LD 12 | Ellington Broadcasting System | 1998–2013 | Now operates as a This TV affiliate |
| Indianapolis, Indiana | WIPX-LD 51 | Word of God Fellowship | 1998–2014 | Operated as repeater of Bloomington, Indiana O&O WIPX-TV; license was donated to Word of God Fellowship in December 2014, to be converted into a repeater of Daystar owned-and-operated station WDTI |
| Lafayette, Louisiana | KDCG-CD 22 | Delta Media Corporation | 1998–2003 | Now operates as a Heroes & Icons affiliate |
| Little Rock, Arkansas | KARZ-TV 42 | Nexstar Broadcasting Group | 1998–2001 | Traded Pax TV affiliation and KYPX call letters with its then-sister station under Equity Media Holdings ownership on UHF channel 49, becoming WB affiliate KWBF; now operates as a MyNetworkTV affiliate |
| KMYA-DT 49 | 1 Squared Media, LLC | 2001–2005 | Obtained affiliation from its then-sister station under Equity Media Holdings ownership on UHF channel 42, adopting its KYPX call letters; disaffiliated from Pax upon its rebrand as i: Independent Television on June 30, 2005, to become the flagship station of the Retro Television Network; now operates as a Me-TV affiliate | |
| Minden–Shreveport, Louisiana | KPXJ 21 | KTBS, LLC | 1998–2003 | Paxson Communications sold the station to KTBS, LLC in 2003; now operates as a CW affiliate |
| Montgomery, Alabama | WBMM 22 | Bahakel Communications | 1999–2005 | Now operates as a CW Plus affiliate |
| WETU-LD 39 | Word of God Fellowship | 1998–2013 | Operates as a Daystar owned-and-operated station | |
| Mount Vernon, Illinois–St. Louis, Missouri–Paducah, Kentucky | WPXS 13 | Word of God Fellowship | 1998–2004, 2005–2008 | Disaffiliated from Pax TV in 2004 to become a Daystar affiliate, before rejoining the network (as i: Independent Television) following Paxson Communications' sale of WPXS to Equity Media Holdings the following year; became a Retro Television Network affiliate in 2008; now operates as a Daystar owned-and-operated station |
| Pascagoula, Mississippi | WKFK-LD 7 | NCN Cable Advertising | 1998–2010 | Now operates as a This TV affiliate |
| Plattsburgh, New York–Burlington, Vermont | WWBI-LP 27 | Defunct | 1999–2005; 2006–2007 | Briefly disaffiliated from the network to join Daystar in 2005, before rejoining the network (as i: Independent Television) in 2006 after a sale to Word of God Fellowship fell through; ceased operations in 2007 |
| Porterville–Fresno, California | KTFF-DT 61 | Univision Communications | 1998–2003 | Paxson Communications sold the station, then using the calls KPXF-TV, to Univision Communications in 2003; now operating as an UniMás owned-and-operated station |
| Rapid City, South Dakota | KKRA-LP | Rapid Broadcasting Company | 1998–2010 | Added secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV in September 2006; now operates as a repeater of NBC affiliate KNBN |
| Reno, Nevada | KREN-TV 27 | Entravision Communications Corporation | 1998–2002 (secondary until 2000) |
Now operates as a Univision affiliate |
| San Juan, Puerto Rico | WJPX 24 | America-CV Stations Group, Inc. | 1998–2000 | Paxson Communications sold the station to LIN TV Corporation in 2000, and converted it into an MTV2 affiliate; now operates as a MundoMax affiliate |
| Sioux Falls, South Dakota | KAUN-LP 42 | J.F. Broadcasting, LLC | 2003–2008 | Now operates as a Retro Television Network affiliate |
| Springfield–Dayton, Ohio | WBDT 26 | Vaughan Media, LLC (operated by Media General) |
1998–1999 | Paxson Communications sold the station, then using the calls WDPX, to ACME Communications in 1999; now operates as a CW affiliate |
| St. Louis, Missouri | KUMO-LD 21 | Word of God Fellowship | 1998–2004, 2005–2008 | Station used call letters WPXS-LD during its affiliation with the network; now operates as a repeater of Daystar owned-and-operated station WPXS |
| Suring–Green Bay–Appleton, Wisconsin | WCWF 14 | Sinclair Broadcast Group | 1998–1999 | Paxson Communications sold the station, then using the calls WPXG, to ACME Communications in 1999; now operates as a CW affiliate |
| Tucson, Arizona | KUVE-DT 39 | Univision Communications | 2001–2003 | Sold to Univision Communications in 2002; now operates as a Univision owned-and-operated station |
| Waterville–Portland, Maine | WPFO 23 | Corporate Media Consultants Group (operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group; sale pending to Cunningham Broadcasting) |
1999–2003 | Paxson Communications sold the station, then using the calls WMPX-TV, to Corporate Media Consultants Group in 2003; now operates as a Fox affiliate |
| Wichita, Kansas | KCTU-LD 43 | River City Broadcasters, Inc. | 2001–2008 | Now operates as a This TV affiliate |
References
- 1 2 "Stations for Network - Ion". RabbitEars. Retrieved October 18, 2015.
- ↑ "ION Media Networks - Main Page". Ion Media Networks. Retrieved October 30, 2015.
- ↑ Angela Mueller (December 11, 2013). "Judge approves creditors’ proposal in Roberts Broadcasting bankruptcy". St. Louis Business Journal (American City Business Journals). Retrieved December 11, 2013.
- ↑ Lisa Brown (December 11, 2013). "Roberts' TV stations to be sold". St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Lee Enterprises). Retrieved December 11, 2013.
- ↑ Mark K. Miller (October 28, 2015). "KWQC Davenport Adds Ion TV On Subchannel". TVNewsCheck. NewsCheck Media. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
- ↑ Michael Malone (March 19, 2014). "WKTC Columbia (S.C.) Picks Up CW Affiliation". Broadcasting & Cable (NewBay Media). Retrieved March 20, 2014.
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