WLPX-TV

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.

WLPX-TV

Charleston–Huntington– Parkersburg, West Virginia Marietta, Ohio United States
City	Charleston, West Virginia
Channels	Digital: 18 (UHF) Virtual: 29
Programming
Affiliations	29.1: Ion Television for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Ion Media (Ion Television License, LLC)
History
Founded	October 27, 1988
First air date	August 31, 1998 (26 years ago) (1998-08-31)
Former call signs	WKRP-TV (August–October 1998)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 29 (UHF, 1998–2009) Digital: 39 (UHF, 2001–2019)
Call sign meaning	Charleston's Pax
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	73189
ERP	765 kW
HAAT	327.2 m (1,073 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	38°30′21.1″N 82°12′32.3″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	iontelevision.com

History

After originating as a construction permit in 1987 and receiving several extensions, WLPX-TV applied for its license on September 11, 1998.^[2] 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:

Subchannels of WLPX-TV^[3]

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
29.1	720p	16:9	ION	Ion Television
29.2	480i		CourtTV	Court TV
29.3			Bounce	Bounce TV
29.4			Laff	Laff
29.5			IONPlus	Ion Plus
29.6			Busted	Busted
29.7			GameSho	Game Show Central
29.8			HSN	HSN
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.^[4]