KPXL-TV

KPXL-TV
Uvalde/San Antonio, Texas; United States
City	Uvalde, Texas
Channels	Digital: 26 (UHF); Virtual: 26
Branding	Ion
Programming
Affiliations	26.1: Ion; 26.2: Court TV; 26.3: Laff; 26.4: Court TV Mystery; 26.5: Defy TV; 26.6: TrueReal; 26.7: Newsy
Ownership
Owner	Ion Media; (a subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company) ; (Ion Television License, LLC)
History
First air date	February 19, 1999 (22 years ago)
Former channel number(s)	Analog:; 26 (UHF, 1999–2009)
Former affiliations	DT2:; Qubo (until 2021); DT3:; Ion Plus (until 2021); DT4:; Ion Shop (until 2021); DT5:; QVC (until 2021); DT6:; HSN (until 2021)
Call sign meaning	PaX TV
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	61173
ERP	228 kW
HAAT	521 m (1,709 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	29°37′12″N 99°2′57.1″W / 29.62000°N 99.049194°WCoordinates: 29°37′12″N 99°2′57.1″W / 29.62000°N 99.049194°W
Links
Public license information	Profile; LMS
Website	iontelevision.com

KPXL-TV, virtual and UHF digital channel 26, is an Ion owned-and-operated television station serving San Antonio, Texas, United States that is licensed to Uvalde. The station is owned by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. KPXL-TV's transmitter is located off Highway 173/RM Road 689 on the Medina–Bandera county line (west-northwest of Lakehills). On cable, the station is available on Charter Spectrum channel 2, Grande Communications channel 3, and AT&T U-verse channel 26.

History[]

The station first signed on the air on February 19, 1999; KPXL was built and signed on by Paxson Communications as an Ion owned-and-operated station of its predecessor Pax TV.

Digital television[]

Digital channels[]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming^[1]
26.1	720p	16:9	ION	Ion
26.2	480i		CourtTV	Court TV
26.3			Laff	Laff
26.4			Mystery	Court TV Mystery
26.5			Defy TV	Defy TV
26.6			TrueReal	TrueReal
26.7			Newsy	Newsy

Analog-to-digital conversion[]

Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997,^[2] the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. KPXL-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 26, on June 12, 2009. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 26.^[3]

References[]

^ "RabbitEars TV Query for KPXL". Retrieved March 7, 2021.
^ http://www.transmitter.com/FCC97115/chanplan.html
^ "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.

External links[]

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[RabbitEars_KPXL-1] "RabbitEars TV Query for KPXL". Retrieved March 7, 2021.

[2] ttp://www.transmitter.com/FCC97115/chanplan.html

[3] "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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v t Broadcast Television in inland South Texas, including San Antonio
English	KCWX (2.1 MNTV, 2.2 This, 2.3 Bounce, 2.4 Decades, 2.5 Quili) WOAI-TV (4.1 NBC, 4.2 CW, 4.3 ANT, 4.4 Charge!) KENS (5.1 CBS, 5.3 Crime, 5.4 Quest, 5.5 Circle, 5.6 Twist) KLRN (9.1 PBS, 9.2 World, 9.3 PBS Kids, 9.4 Create) KSAT-TV (12.1 ABC, 12.2 MeTV, 12.3 Movies!, 12.4 H&I, 12.5 Start, 12.6 QVC, 12.7 QVC2) KVHC-LD 15 (Retro) KNIC-DT (17.3 Mystery, 17.4 Laff, 17.4 Digi) KOBS-LD (19.1/19.2/19.4/19.6/19.7 Ads, 19.3 Shop LC) KGMM-CD (24.1 Ads, 24.2 TheGrio.TV, 24.4 NewsNet) KPXL-TV (26.1 Ion, 26.2 Court TV, 26.3 Laff, 26.4 Mystery, 26.5 Defy, 26.6 TrueReal, 26.7 Newsy) KABB (29.1 Fox, 29.2 Comet, 29.3 Rewind) KVDF-CD (31.2 beIN Xtra, 31.3/31.4/31.5 Ads KCOR-CD (34.3 Mystery, 34.4 Laff) KMYS (35.1 Dabl, 35.2 TBD, 35.3 Stadium) KISA-LD (40.1 QVC, 40.3 Ads, 40.5 LC, 40.6 HSN2, 40.7 Ads) KWEX-DT (41.2 getTV, 41.3 Grit, 41.4 HSN, 41.5 Court TV) KSSJ-LD (47.1 Cheddar, 47.2/47.3 Ads) K17MJ-D 51 (Ads) K53JC 53 (TxDOT) KVDA (60.3 Cozi, 60.4 Lx)
Spanish	KENS (5.2 Estrella) (16 Azteca) KNIC-DT (17.1 Más, 17.2 UNI) KVDF-CD 31 (Azteca) KCOR-CD (34.1 Más) KISA-LD (40.2 LATV) KWEX-DT (41.1 UNI) KVDA (60.1 TMD, 60.2 TXO)
Religious	K25OB-D (14.1 3ABN) KOBS-LD (19.5 3ABN) KHCE-TV (23.1 TBN, 23.2 Hillsong, 23.3 Smile, 23.4 Enlace, 23.5 Positiv) KGMM-CD (24.3 SBN) KISA-LD (40.4 SBN)
Local cable channels	Spectrum News San Antonio
Defunct	KFLZ-LP (6.1 Spanish Ind Rel, 6.2 Promiseland, 6.3 English Rel., 6.4 Test pattern) (10 Ind.) KQVE-LP 46 (Daystar) News 9 San Antonio
Outlying areas	Del Rio KYVV-TV (10.1 Grit, 24.2 Buzzr, 24.3 Majestad TV, 24.4 LATV) Eagle Pass KVAW (24.1 Ind.)
Texas television (by city) Abilene/Sweetwater Amarillo (Texas Panhandle) Austin (Hill Country) Beaumont/Port Arthur (Golden Triangle) Corpus Christi Dallas–Fort Worth (North Texas) Ciudad Acuña – Del Rio Eagle Pass El Paso (West Texas) Houston Laredo Lubbock (South Plains) Midland–Odessa (Permian Basin) Rio Grande Valley San Angelo San Antonio Sherman/Ada, OK Texarkana/Shreveport, LA (Ark-La-Tex) Tyler/Longview (East Texas) Victoria Waco/Bryan (Brazos Valley) Wichita Falls/Lawton, OK

v t E. W. Scripps Company
sorted by primary channel network affiliations
ABC	KATC KERO-TV / KZKC-LD KGTV / KZSD-LD KGUN-TV KIVI-TV / KSAW-LD KMGH-TV / KZCO-LD KNXV-TV KTNV-TV KXXV / KRHD-CD WCPO-TV WEWS-TV WFTS-TV WKBW-TV WMAR-TV WRTV WTXL-TV WXYZ-TV
CBS	KMTV-TV KPAX-TV / KAJJ-CD KRTV / KXLH-LD KTVQ KXLF-TV / KBZK KZTV ¹ WTKR WTVF WTVR-TV
The CW	KASW ² KATC ³ KNXV-TV ² KPAX-TV / KAJJ-CD ³ KRIS-TV ³ KRTV / KXLH-LD ³ KSBY ³ KTNV-TV ³ ⁴ KTVH-DT / KTGF-LD ³ KTVQ ³ KXLF-TV / KBZK ³ KWBA-TV WGNT WSFL-TV WTVF ³ ⁵
Fox	KNIN-TV ⁶ KSTU WFLX ⁶ WFTX-TV WSYM-TV WXMI
MyNetworkTV	WACY-TV WSYM-TV ³
NBC	KJRH-TV KOAA-TV KRIS-TV KSBY KSHB-TV KTVH-DT / KTGF-LD KTPX-TV ³ ⁸ WGBA-TV WLEX-TV WPTV-TV WTMJ-TV
Ion (O&O)	KFPX-TV KKPX-TV KMCC KPXB-TV KPXD-TV KPXG-TV KPXL-TV KPXM-TV KPXN-TV KPXR-TV KRTV / KXLH-LD ³ KSPX-TV KTPX-TV KUPX-TV KWPX-TV KXLF-TV / KBZK ³ WBPX-TV / WPXG WCPX-TV WDPX-TV WEPX-TV / WPXU-TV WINP-TV WIPL WKOI-TV WLPX-TV WNPX-TV WOPX-TV WPPX-TV WPXA-TV WPXC-TV WPXE-TV WPXK-TV WPXL-TV WPXM-TV WPXN-TV WPXQ-TV WPXR-TV WPXW-TV / WWPX-TV WQPX-TV WRBU WRPX-TV WSFJ-TV WSPX-TV WTPX-TV WTVR-TV ³ WXPX-TV WZRB
Other	Bounce TV WSFJ-TV WFPX-TV KILM Court TV WDPX-TV Court TV Mystery KZCS-LD K21OM-D Independent KCDO-TV / KSBS-CD KMCI-TV K22JA-D WHDT WMYD ⁷ WXYZ-TV ⁷ Telemundo K47DF-D / KZTV ¹ ³
TV networks	Broadcast Bounce TV Court TV Court TV Mystery Defy TV Grit Ion Television Laff Newsy TrueReal TV OTT Ion Plus
Programming	The List Right This Minute
Acquisitions	Cordillera Communications Ion Media Journal Communications McGraw-Hill Katz Broadcasting
Digital	Newsy Triton Digital
People	Adam P. Symson Rich Boehne Edward W. Estlow Jack R. Howard Roy W. Howard Ted Knap Jim G. Lucas Ernie Pyle Al Schottelkotte Charles Scripps E. W. Scripps
Related	National Journalism Awards Newspaper Enterprise Association National Spelling Bee Scripps Howard Foundation Scripps Networks Interactive United Feature Syndicate United Media Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co.
NOTES: ¹ Scripps operates KZTV under a Shared Services Agreement with SagamoreHill Broadcasting. ² KNXV-TV provides an ATSC 1.0 simulcast of sister CW station KASW for non-ATSC 3.0 tuners and receivers. ³ These stations broadcast these networks on their digital subchannels. ⁴ KTNV-TV provides an ATSC 1.0 simulcast of Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned CW station KVCW for non-ATSC 3.0 tuners and receivers. ⁵ WTVF provides an ATSC 1.0 simulcast of locally-owned and Sinclair Broadcast Group-operated CW station WNAB for non-ATSC 3.0 tuners and receivers. ⁶ Scripps operates these stations under a Shared Services Agreement with Gray Television. ⁷ WXYZ-TV provides an ATSC 1.0 simulcast of sister Independent station WMYD for non-ATSC 3.0 tuners and receivers. ⁸ KJRH-TV provides a standard definition simulcast of sister station, Ion Television O&O KTPX-TV. ⁹ WFTS-TV provides an ATSC 1.0 simulcast of Hearst Television-owned independent station WMOR-TV for non-ATSC 3.0 tuners and receivers. ¹⁰ KSPX-TV provides a standard definition simulcast of Telemundo-owned and operated KCSO-LD, due to the latter's low-power status. ¹¹ WPXA-TV provides a simulcast of locally owned and operated WKTB-CD, due to the latter's low-power status.