WRPX-TV

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WRPX-TV
Rocky Mount/Raleigh/
Durham, North Carolina
United States
CityRocky Mount, North Carolina
ChannelsDigital: 32 (UHF)
(shared with WFPX-TV[1])
Virtual: 47
BrandingIon
Programming
Affiliations47.1: Ion Television
47.2: Court TV
47.3: Court TV Mystery
47.4: Defy TV
47.5: Laff
47.6: TrueReal
47.7: Newsy
Ownership
OwnerIon Media
(E. W. Scripps Company)
(Ion Television License, LLC)
WFPX-TV
History
FoundedMarch 26, 1991
First air date
July 8, 1992 (29 years ago) (1992-07-08)
Former call signs
WFXB (3/26/1991–8/9/1991)
WRMY (8/9/1991–1998)
WRPX (1998–2009)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
47 (UHF, 1992–2009)
Digital:
15 (UHF, until 2019)
Former affiliations
Analog/DT1:
Independent (1992–1998)
DT2:
Qubo (until 2021)
DT3:
Ion Shop (until 2021)
DT4:
Grit (March–July 2021)
DT6:
HSN (until 2021)
Call sign meaning
Raleigh's PaX TV
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID20590
ClassDT
ERP170 kW[2]
HAAT563.8 m (1,849.7 ft)[2]
Transmitter coordinates35°49′52.8″N 78°8′42.8″W / 35.831333°N 78.145222°W / 35.831333; -78.145222[2]
Links
Public license information
Profile
LMS
Websiteiontelevision.com

WRPX-TV, virtual channel 47 (UHF digital channel 32), is an Ion Television owned-and-operated station licensed to Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States, serving the Triangle region (Raleigh–Durham–Chapel Hill–Fayetteville). Owned by the Ion Media subsidiary of the Cincinnati-based E. W. Scripps Company, it is part of a duopoly with Archer Lodge–licensed Bounce TV owned-and-operated station WFPX-TV (channel 62). Both stations share a sales office on Gresham Lake Road in Raleigh and transmitting facilities northeast of Middlesex, North Carolina.

WRPX's signal was previously relayed on WFPX; WRPX served the northern half of the market, including Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, while WFPX served the southern part, including Fayetteville and Southern Pines.

Technical information[]

Subchannels[]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[3]
47.1 720p 16:9 ION Ion Television
47.2 480i CourtTV Court TV
47.3 Mystery Court TV Mystery
47.4 TruReal TrueReal
47.5 Laff Laff
47.6 Defy TV Defy TV
47.7 Newsy Newsy

Analog-to-digital conversion[]

WRPX-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 47, 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 continued to broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 15.[4] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 47.

Spectrum repack[]

WRPX-TV moved from channel 15 to channel 32 on September 11, 2019.

Out-of-market coverage[]

In recent years, WRPX-TV has been carried on cable in multiple areas within the Greenville and Wilmington media markets.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Modification of a Licensed Facility for DTV Application
  2. ^ a b c "Modification of a Licensed Facility for DTV Application". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. March 4, 2019. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
  3. ^ RabbitEars TV Query for WRPX
  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.
  5. ^ "TV Listings- Find Local TV Listings and Watch Full Episodes - Zap2it.com". Zap2It. 2017-09-01.

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