WFPX-TV

WFPX-TV
Fayetteville, North Carolina United States
City	Fayetteville, North Carolina
Branding	ION Television
Slogan	Positively Entertaining
Channels	Digital: 36 (UHF) Virtual: 62 (PSIP)
Subchannels	62.1 Ion Television 62.2 qubo 62.3 ION Life 62.4 ION Shop 62.5 QVC
Affiliations	Ion Television (O&O; 2007–present)
Owner	Ion Media Networks, Inc. (Ion Media License Company, LLC)
First air date	March 1985 (1985-03)^[1]
Call letters' meaning	Fayetteville's PaX
Former callsigns	WFCT (1985-1993) WFAY (1993-1998)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 62 (UHF, 1985-2009)
Former affiliations	independent (1985–1994) Fox (1994–1998) Pax TV (1998–2005) i (2005–2007)
Transmitter power	1000 kW (digital)
Height	242 m (digital)
Facility ID	21245
Transmitter coordinates	34°53′5″N 79°4′29″W / 34.88472°N 79.07472°W / 34.88472; -79.07472
Licensing authority	FCC
Public license information:	Profile CDBS
Website	ION Television

WFPX-TV is one of two Ion Television affiliates for the Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina, USA, television market, licensed to nearby Fayetteville. The station is owned by ION Media Networks (the former Paxson Communications), and is a full-time satellite of WRPX-TV. WFPX operates on UHF digital channel 36. Its transmitter is located in Lumber Bridge, North Carolina. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display WFPX's virtual channel as 62.1.

History

Channel 62 signed on in 1985 as WFCT, an independent broadcaster owned by Fayetteville/Cumberland Telecasters. Attorneys Robinson and Katherine Everett of Durham, founders of WRDU-TV (now WRDC) in Durham, along with WJKA (now WSFX-TV) in Wilmington and WGGT (now WMYV) in Greensboro, were two of the principals in this company.

The station changed call letters to WFAY in 1993 and became a Fox affiliate in 1994; the affiliation came as part of a deal that also saw the Everetts switch their CBS affiliates, WJKA and KECY-TV in El Centro, California/Yuma, Arizona to Fox.^[2] Etven though WFAY was located in the same market as WLFL (a Fox affiliate at the time), it mainly focused on communities located south of Fayetteville that did not get a good signal from WLFL. Some of its non-network programming was also simulcast to the Raleigh-Durham area on WRAY-TV for a couple of years in the mid-1990s until it was acquired by the Shop at Home network.

WFAY later became WFPX and dropped Fox after being bought out by Paxson in 1998. Later that year, newly minted Fox station WFXB out of the Florence/Myrtle Beach market expanded its signal to cover areas formerly served by WFAY. It is worthy of note that WFPX's signal is not seen at all in the northern portion of the Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville market, but covers northern portions of the Florence-Myrtle Beach market, which did not have its own Ion affiliate until 2015, when WBTW added Ion on a digital subchannel following a deal made with Media General.

Digital television^[3]

Digital channels

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Network
62.1	720p	16:9	ION	Ion Television
62.2	480i	4:3	Qubo	Qubo
62.3			IONLife	Ion Life
62.4			Shop	Ion Shop
62.5			QVC	QVC

Analog-to-digital conversion

WFPX-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 62, at noon on June 12, 2009, the official date in 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 36.^[4] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 62, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition. In recent years, WFPX has been carried on cable in multiple areas within the Wilmington media market.

External links

References

↑ The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says March 14, while the Television and Cable Factbook says March 4.
↑ Flint, Joe (April 14, 1994). "CBS loses trio of affils to Fox". Variety. Retrieved January 16, 2013.
↑ RabbitEars TV Query for WFPX
↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.

Television stations in the Research Triangle region, including Raleigh, Durham, and Fayetteville, North Carolina

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

Digital television	WUNC/WUNP 4/36 (.1/.2 PBS, .2/.3 Kids, .3/.1 Explorer, .4/.4 North Carolina) WRAL-TV 5 (.1 NBC, .2 Heroes & Icons) WTVD 11 (.1 ABC, .2 LWN, .3 Laff) WNCN 17 (.1 CBS, .2 Antenna, .3 Justice Network) WLFL 22 (.1 CW, .2 ASN) WRDC 28 (.1 MNTV, .2 Grit, .3 Comet) WRAY-TV 30 (.1 TCT) WUVC 40 (.1 UV, .2 UniMás, .3 Bounce, .4 GetTV) WRPX-TV/WFPX-TV 47/62 (.1 Ion, .2 Qubo, .3 Life, .4 Ion Shop, .5 QVC) WRAZ 50 (.1 Fox, .2 MeTV)

Low-power digital	WAUG-LD 8 (.1 Ind./AMGTV) WNCB-LD 16 (.1 Estrella, .2 Dr.TV, .3 SBN) WTNC-LD 26 (.1 UV, .2 UniMás) WHIG-LD 31 (.1 ind.) WARZ-CD 34 (.1 rel., .2 LeSEA) WNCR-LD 41 (.1 A1) WHFL-CD 43 (.1 rel.) WZGS-CD 44 (.1 ind.) W46EU-D 46 (.1 HSN) WWIW-LD 66 (.1 Daystar)

Analog television	WBXU-CA/WUBX-CD 13 (MTV2) W24CP 24 (3ABN) WACN-LP 34 (Daystar) W45CN 45 (silent)

Cable television	Time Warner Cable News STV (UNC)

North Carolina broadcast television areas by city Asheville Charlotte Greensboro Greenville, NC Myrtle Beach, SC Norfolk, VA Raleigh Wilmington See also Richmond TV Roanoke TV

ION Television Network Affiliates in the state of North Carolina

WGPX 16 (Burlington) WPXU 35 / WEPX 38 (Jacksonville / Greenville) WRPX 47 / WFPX 62 (Rocky Mount / Fayetteville)

See also ABC CBS CW Fox Ion MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in North Carolina

Ion Media Networks

Networks	Ion Television Ion Life Qubo

O&O Television stations (carry Ion networks unless otherwise noted)	KBPX¹ KFPX KGPX KKPX KOPX KPPX KPXB KPXC KPXD KPXE KPXG KPXL KPXM KPXN KPXO KPXR KSPX KTPX KUPX KWPX WAZE² WBPX / WDPX / WPXG WCPX WEPX WFPX WGPX WHPX WINP WIPX WLPX WNPX WOPX WPPX WPXA WPXC WPXD WPXE WPXH WPXJ WPXK WPXL WPXM WPXN WPXP WPXQ WPXR WPXU WPXV WPXW WPXX WQPX WRBU³ WRPX WSPX WTPX WUPX WVPX WWPX WXPX WYPX WZRB³ WZPX

Other ION Affiliates (owned by other broadcasters)	K39HF KCLG KCVB KDMD KDMD-LP KPVM / K46KA-D KQEG / WIBU-LP KRQE-DT2 KTSS KXAN-DT3 WBGR WBNA WHCQ-LD / WEBU-LP / WPRQ-LD WKFK-LD KWQC-DT2 WKRG-DT2 KSNW-DT3 WANE-DT3 WJBF-DT3 KXRM-DT3 WLFI-DT3 WBAY-DT3 KHRR-DT3 KNSO-DT3 KBLR-DT3

¹Affiliated with ZUUS Country. ² Repeater of WAZE-TV. Currently silent. ³Sale to Cedar Creek Broadcasting pending; to remain operated by Ion thereafter.

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