KPXC-TV

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KPXC-TV
Denver, Colorado
United States
ChannelsDigital: 18 (UHF)
Virtual: 59
BrandingIon Television
Programming
Affiliations59.1: Ion Television
59.2: Bounce TV
59.3: Court TV
59.4: Defy TV
59.5: TrueReal
59.6: Grit
59.7: Newsy
Ownership
OwnerInyo Broadcast Holdings
(Inyo Broadcast Licenses LLC)
History
First air date
September 2, 1987 (34 years ago) (1987-09-02)
Former call signs
KUBD (1987–1998)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
59 (UHF, 1988–2010)
Digital:
43 (UHF, 2010–2019)
Analog/DT1:
Independent/FNN (1987–1989)
Telemundo (1989–1998)
DT2:
Qubo (until 2021)
DT3:
Ion Plus (until 2021)
DT4:
Ion Shop (until 2021)
Laff (2021)
DT5:
HSN (until 2021)
DT6:
QVC (until 2021)
Call sign meaning
PaX Colorado
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID68695
ERP330 kW
HAAT329.6 m (1,081 ft)
Transmitter coordinates40°5′47.3″N 104°54′5.9″W / 40.096472°N 104.901639°W / 40.096472; -104.901639Coordinates: 40°5′47.3″N 104°54′5.9″W / 40.096472°N 104.901639°W / 40.096472; -104.901639
Links
Public license information
Profile
LMS
Websiteiontelevision.com

KPXC-TV, virtual channel 59 (UHF digital channel 18), is an Ion Television-affiliated station licensed to Denver, Colorado, United States. The station is owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings. KPXC's offices are located on South Jamaica Court in Aurora, and its transmitter is located in rural southwestern Weld County, east of Frederick.

History[]

The station first signed on the air on September 10, 1987 as KUBD. Originally operating as an independent station, the station aired financial news programming from the Financial News Network during the daytime hours and ran a general entertainment schedule at night. In 1989, KUBD became the original Denver area affiliate of the Spanish-language network Telemundo. FNN ceased operations two years later, when it was absorbed by CNBC. In 1995, KUBD was sold by its original ownership group (which included satellite TV entrepreneur Charlie Ergen) to Christian Network, Inc. (CNI), a non-profit organization co-founded by Bud Paxson, for $6.5 million.[1] The CNI stations, including KUBD, were sold to Paxson Communications in 1996.

The station changed its call letters to KPXC-TV on February 2, 1998; KPXC became a charter owned-and-operated station of Paxson's new family-oriented broadcast network Pax TV (now Ion Television) when the network launched on August 31, 1998. In 2001, KPXC obtained the local television rights to carry select NHL games featuring the Colorado Avalanche; the deal to broadcast the games ended in 2003.

On December 15, 2014, Ion reached a deal to donate KPXC-TV's low-power repeater in Fort Collins, KPXH-LD (channel 25), to Word of God Fellowship, parent company of the Daystar network.[2]

Newscasts[]

In September 2001, as part of its joint sales agreement with that station (the result of an overall deal between Pax TV and NBC), KPXC-TV began airing tape delayed rebroadcasts of Gannett's NBC affiliate KUSA-TV (channel 9)'s 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. newscasts each Monday through Friday evening at 6:30 and 10:30 p.m. (the latter beginning shortly before that program's live broadcast ended on KUSA). The news rebroadcasts ended on June 30, 2005, when the network's other news share agreements with major network affiliates throughout the United States were terminated upon the network's rebranding as i: Independent Television, as a result of the network's financial troubles.

Technical information[]

Subchannels[]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[3]
59.1 720p 16:9 ION Main KPXC-TV programming / Ion Television
59.2 480i Bounce Bounce TV
59.3 CourtTV Court TV
59.4 DeFy TV Defy TV
59.5 TruReal TrueReal
59.6 Grit Grit
59.7 Newsy Newsy

Analog-to-digital conversion[]

KPXC-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 59, 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 43.[4] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 59, which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

References[]

  1. ^ "Paxson-backed network buys Denver station" (PDF). americanradiohistory.com. Broadcasting & Cable. May 22, 1995. Retrieved March 12, 2016.
  2. ^ "APPLICATION FOR TRANSFER OF CONTROL OF A CORPORATE LICENSEE OR PERMITTEE, OR FOR ASSIGNMENT OF LICENSE OR PERMIT OF TV OR FM TRANSLATOR STATION OR LOW POWER TELEVISION STATION (KPXH-LD)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. December 23, 2014. Retrieved December 24, 2014.
  3. ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for KPXC". Retrieved March 6, 2021.
  4. ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.

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