KWPX

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KWPX
city = Bellevue, Washington
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding = Ion Television
analog = 33 (UHF)
digital = 32 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = Ion Television
subchannels = 33.1 KWPX-DT
33.2 qubo
33.3 ION Life
33.4 The Worship Network
network =
founded =
airdate = May 17, 1989
location = Seattle, Washington
callsign_meaning = Washington's PaX TV
former_callsigns = KBGE (1989-1998)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = ION Media Networks, Inc.
licensee = Paxson Communications License Company, LLC
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = HSN (until 1998)
effective_radiated_power = 3720 kW (analog)
175 kW (digital)
HAAT = 717 m (analog)
716 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 56852
coordinates = coord|47|30|16.3|N|121|58|10|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.ionline.tv/ www.ionline.tv]

KWPX is an Ion (formerly PAX and i) television station serving Seattle, Washington and Bellevue, Washington, owned by ION Media Networks, formerly Paxson Communications. KWPX signed on the air as KBGE on May 17 1989. KWPX's local administrative office is shared with Belo Corporation's KING-TV, just east of the Seattle Center, though since July 2005, KING no longer has any operating agreement with KWPX.

The station's current programming consists of the Ion national feed including religious programs, plus paid infomercials and local advertising spots. The network programing on Friday includes qubo in the afternoon and ION Life in the early evening.

When the station first signed on the air, its transmitter site was atop the Columbia Center Tower. The transmitter site was later moved to West Tiger Mountain -- which is also known as West Tiger #3.

On most Western Washington cable TV systems, KWPX is typically located as channel 15 or channel 3.

KWPX's city of license is Bellevue, Washington.

Digital television

Analog-to-digital transition

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009 http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf] , KWPX will move its digital broadcasts back to its present analog channel frequency, 33. [http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101257035&formid=387&fac_num=56852 CDBS Print ] ]

External links

* [http://www.ionline.tv Ion Television website]
*TVQ|KWPX
*BIA|KWPX|TV|TV

References