KKPX-TV

KKPX-TV
San Jose/San Francisco/Oakland, California
United States
City San Jose, California
Branding Ion Television
Slogan Positively Entertaining
Channels Digital: 41 (UHF)
(to move to 33 (UHF))
Virtual: 65 (PSIP)
Subchannels
Affiliations Ion Television
Owner Ion Media Networks
(Ion Media San Jose License, Inc.)
First air date November 15, 1986 (1986-11-15)
Call letters' meaning KK PaX(son)
Former callsigns KLXV-TV (1986–1997)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
65 (UHF, 1986–2009)
Former affiliations TBN (1986–1995)
inTV (1995–1998)
Transmitter power 1000 kW
510 kW (CP)
Height 418 m (1,371 ft)
432 m (1,417 ft) (CP)
Facility ID 22644
Transmitter coordinates 37°41′14.4″N 122°26′5.3″W / 37.687333°N 122.434806°W / 37.687333; -122.434806Coordinates: 37°41′14.4″N 122°26′5.3″W / 37.687333°N 122.434806°W / 37.687333; -122.434806
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.iontelevision.com

KKPX-TV, virtual channel 65 (UHF digital channel 41), is an Ion Television owned-and-operated television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The station is owned by Ion Media Networks. KKPX maintains offices located on Price Avenue in Redwood City, and its transmitter is located atop San Bruno Mountain.

History

The station first signed on the air on November 15, 1986 as KLXV-TV (the last three letters of the callsign representing the Roman numeral for 65) and was an affiliate of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. In 1995, the station became an affiliate of the infomercial service InTV. In August 1997, the station's call letters were changed to KKPX after Paxson Communications (now Ion Media Networks) bought the station. KKPX became a charter owned-and-operated station of Pax TV (the predecessor of Ion Television, to which the network was renamed in 2007) on August 31, 1998.

Digital television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channels

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Network
65.1720p16:9IONIon Television
65.2480i4:3quboQubo
65.3IONLifeIon Life
65.4ShopIon Shop
65.5QVCQVC
65.6HSNHSN

[1]

KKPX-TV had plans for a Mobile DTV feed of subchannel 65.1.[2][3] A Mobile DTV feed did later launch, but it carries programming from 65.2 (Qubo).

Analog-to-digital conversion

KKPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 65, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[4] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 41, using PSIP to display KKPX-TV's virtual channel as 65 on digital television receivers, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

Newscasts

From 2000 to 2005, KKPX aired rebroadcasts of KNTV (channel 11)'s 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts at 7 and 11:30 p.m. each weeknight. The newscasts were originally branded as NewsChannel 11 on Pax when KNTV was affiliated with The WB; after KNTV joined NBC in January 2002, the newscasts were first renamed to NBC 3 News on Pax, then to NBC 11 News on Pax several months later, after KNTV stopped branding by its common channel number on Bay Area cable systems. Like most other such arrangements involving Pax stations and major network affiliates, the simulcasts were dropped on June 30, 2005 (the day prior to Pax's rebranding as i: Independent Television).

References

  1. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KKPX
  2. ↑ http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=atscmph
  3. ↑ http://www.mdtvsignalmap.com/
  4. ↑ List of Digital Full-Power Stations Archived 2013-08-29 at the Wayback Machine.


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