WTPX-TV

WTPX-TV

Antigo/Wausau/Rhinelander, Wisconsin United States
City	Antigo, Wisconsin
Channels	Digital: 19 (UHF) Virtual: 46
Branding	Ion
Programming
Affiliations	46.1: Ion 46.2: Grit 46.3: Court TV Mystery 46.4: Laff 46.5: Bounce TV 46.6: Defy TV 46.7: Newsy
Ownership
Owner	Ion Media (E. W. Scripps Company) (Ion Television License, LLC)
Sister stations	WPXE-TV (network sister) WTMJ-TV WGBA-TV WACY-TV (adjacent market corporate sisters)
History
Founded	May 15, 1998
First air date	November 23, 2001 (20 years ago) (2001-11-23)
Former call signs	WAZW (1998–1999) WTPX (1999–2009)
Former channel number(s)	Digital: 46 (UHF, 2002–2018)
Call sign meaning	Wausau & AnTigo's PaX
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	86496
ERP	24.5 kW
HAAT	279 m (915 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	45°3′33″N 89°26′10″W / 45.05917°N 89.43611°W / 45.05917; -89.43611
Links
Public license information	Profile LMS
Website	iontelevision.com

WTPX-TV, virtual channel 46 (UHF digital channel 19), is an Ion Television owned-and-operated station licensed to Antigo, Wisconsin, United States and serving north-central Wisconsin, including Wausau and Rhinelander. The station is owned by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. WTPX-TV's transmitter is located near Glandon, Wisconsin.

Until 2021, the station's public file was maintained at studios on North Flint Road in Glendale, where WPXE-TV, the Ion station in the Milwaukee market, was based. In October of that year with the 2019 repeal of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s Main Studio Rule, Ion Media officially registered its studio facility (along with most Ion-owned stations) as the Scripps Center in Cincinnati. The same month, Green Bay sister station WGBA-TV launched Ion as its fifth subchannel, with the affiliation moving from WBAY-TV.

Subchannels[]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed; PSIP is subject to verification:

Paxson Communications/Ion Media chose to run WTPX-TV as a digital-only station upon signing on in 2001, and held no analog license for the station. Thus, WTPX-TV never had any digital transition channel, flash-cut or analog transition period. It moved from its original physical channel 46 to channel 19 during the FCC's spectrum repack in June 2018, but continues to use channel 46 as its virtual channel position.

External links[]

• BIAfn's Media Web Database — Information on WTPX-TV

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