List of Ion Life affiliates
Ion Life is an American lifestyle-oriented broadcast, cable and satellite television network owned by Ion Media Networks, which was launched on February 19, 2007. As of November 2015, the network currently has current and pending affiliation agreements with 65 television stations, the vast majority of which are owned by its corporate parent.[1][2] Ion Life also distributes its base national programming feed directly to cable, satellite and IPTV providers in various media markets not listed here, as an alternative method of distribution in areas without a locally based owned-and-operated or affiliate station.
This article is a listing of current, pending and former Ion Life affiliates in the continental United States (including subchannel affiliates, satellite stations and select low-power translators), arranged alphabetically by state, and based on the station's city of license and followed in parentheses by the Designated Market Area if it differs from the city of license. There are links to and articles on each of the broadcast stations, describing their histories, technical information (such as broadcast frequencies) and any local programming.
The station's virtual (PSIP) channel number follows the call letters, and is itself followed by the station's actual digital channel number, which are listed as separate columns. The article also includes a list of its former affiliate stations, which is based strictly on the station's city of license or market, and denotes the years in which the station served as an affiliate as well as the current status of the corresponding channel that carried the network.
Current affiliates
Notes:
- This list includes Ion Media Networks-owned stations (most of which incorporates the letters "PX" in their call signs, in reference to the pre-2007 name of its corporate parent, Paxson Communications), which are also listed separately from its affiliated stations in the article List of stations owned and operated by Ion Media Networks.
- This list does not include parent network Ion Television and sister network Qubo, which are carried on most of the stations listed. For a list of affiliates of those networks, see List of Ion Television affiliates and List of Qubo affiliates.
| City of license/Market | Station[1] | Virtual channel |
Physical channel |
Year of affiliation |
Ownership | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gadsden (Birmingham) | WPXH-TV | 44.3 | 45 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Tolleson (Phoenix) | KPPX-TV | 51.3 | 51 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Sacramento–Stockton –Modesto | KSPX-TV | 29.3 | 48 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Inglewood (Los Angeles) | KILM | 64 | 38 | 2006 2018 | KILM shares the spectrum of Ion's KPXN-TV (and since September 2018, is owned by Ion Media); KPXN's DT3 Ion Life subchannel was transferred to KILM to take advantage of must-carry on local pay TV systems. | ||
| San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland | KKPX-TV | 65.3 | 41 | 2006 | |||
| Denver | KPXC-TV | 59.3 | 43 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Gunnison | K04DH-D | 4.3 | 4 | 2011 | Southwest Colorado TV Translator Association | ||
| New London (Hartford–New Haven) | WHPX-TV | 26.3 | 26 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Wilmington (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) | WPPX-TV | 61.3 | 31 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Bradenton (Tampa–St. Petersburg) | WXPX-TV | 66.3 | 42 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Lake Worth (West Palm Beach–Boca Raton–Fort Pierce) | WPXP-TV | 67.3 | 36 | 2006 | |||
| Melbourne (Orlando) | WOPX-TV | 56.3 | 48 | 2006 | |||
| Miami | WPXM-TV | 35.3 | 35 | 2006 | |||
| Brunswick (Jacksonville, Florida) | WPXC-TV | 21.3 | 24 | 2000 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Rome–Atlanta | WPXA-TV | 14.3 | 31 | 2006 | |||
| Kaneohe (Honolulu) | KPXO-TV | 66.3 | 41 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Chicago | WCPX-TV | 38.3 | 43 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| East St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri) | WRBU[3][4] | 46.3 | 47 | 2014 | |||
| Boise | KTRV-TV | 12.3 | 13 | 2016 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Bloomington (Indianapolis) | WIPX-TV | 63.3 | 27 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Cedar Rapids | KPXR-TV | 48.3 | 47 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Newton–Des Moines | KFPX-TV | 39.3 | 39 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Morehead (Lexington) | WUPX-TV | 67.3 | 21 | 2001 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| New Orleans | WPXL-TV | 49.3 | 50 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Boston | WBPX-TV | 68.3 | 32 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| W40BO | 40.3 | 40 | 2006 | Operates as a repeater of WBPX-TV | |||
| Dennis/Cape Cod | WMPX-LP | 33.3 | 33 | 2006 | |||
| Vineyard Haven | WDPX-TV | 58.3 | 40 | 2006 | Operates as a satellite station of WBPX-TV | ||
| Ann Arbor (Detroit) | WPXD-TV | 31.3 | 50 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Battle Creek (Grand Rapids and Lansing) | WZPX-TV | 44.3 | 44 | 2006 | |||
| La Crescent, Minnesota (La Crosse, Wisconsin) | KQEG-CA | 23.3 | 23 | 2013 | Magnum Radio, Inc. | ||
| St. Cloud (Minneapolis–St. Paul) | KPXM-TV | 41.3 | 40 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Kansas City | KPXE-TV | 50.3 | 30 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Pahrump | KPVM-LP | 41.3 | 46 | 2006 | Pahrump Video Media | ||
| Concord | WPXG-TV | 21.3 | 33 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Amityville | WPXU-LD | 12.3 | 12 | 2006 | Word of God Fellowship | Operates as a repeater of WPXN-TV | |
| Amsterdam (Albany) | WYPX-TV | 55.3 | 50 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Batavia (Buffalo and Rochester) | WPXJ-TV | 51.3 | 18 | 2006 | |||
| New York City | WPXN-TV | 31.3 | 31 | 2006 | |||
| Syracuse | WSPX-TV | 56.3 | 15 | 2006 | |||
| Burlington (Greensboro– Winston-Salem–High Point) | WGPX-TV | 16.3 | 14 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Archer Lodge (Fayetteville/Raleigh–Durham) | WFPX-TV | 62.1 | 15 | 2006 | Shares channel with WRPX-TV/Rocky Mount as of mid-2018; became a sole Ion Life station upon channel share going into effect to allow full pay-TV must-carry coverage throughout the market. | ||
| Greenville | WEPX-TV | 38.3 | 51 | 2006 | WEPX/WPXU maintained a secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV from that network's launch in September 2006 until September 2009, following the closure of Flinn Broadcasting Corporation's sale of the station to Ion Media Networks; WEPX-TV operates as a satellite station of WEPX-TV | ||
| Jacksonville | WPXU-TV | 35.3 | 34 | 2006 | |||
| Akron–Cleveland | WDLI-TV | 17.1 | 23 | 2018 | Ion Media Networks | Sharing it's frequency with ION's owned & operated WVPX. ION Media purchased WDLI from TBN and replaced the TBN network with ION Life on September 26, 2018. | |
| Oklahoma City | KOPX-TV | 62.3 | 50 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Okmulgee (Tulsa) | KTPX-TV | 44.3 | 28 | 2006 | |||
| Cottage Grove | K14LP-D | 14.3 | 14 | 2006 | South Lane Television | Operates as a repeater of KPXG-TV | |
| Portland | KPXG-LD | 42.3 | 42 | 2006 | Word of God Fellowship | ||
| Salem (Portland) | KPXG-TV | 22.3 | 22 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Pittsburgh | WINP-TV | 16.3 | 38 | 2013 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Scranton–Wilkes-Barre | WQPX-TV | 64.3 | 32 | 2006 | |||
| Providence | WLWC-TV | 28.1 | 22 | 2017 | Ion Media | Former CW affiliate which uses WPXQ-TV's bandwidth under a channel sharing agreement and was purchased by Ion in February 2018 | |
| Columbia | WZRB | 47.3 | 47 | 2013 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Cookeville (Nashville) | WNPX-TV | 28.3 | 36 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Jellico (Knoxville) | WPXK-TV | 54.3 | 23 | 2006 | |||
| Memphis | WPXX-TV | 50.3 | 51 | 2006 | |||
| Arlington–Dallas | KPXD-TV | 68.3 | 42 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Conroe–Houston | KPXB-TV | 49.3 | 24 | 2006 | |||
| Uvalde (San Antonio) | KPXL-TV | 26.3 | 26 | 2006 | |||
| Provo–Salt Lake City | KUPX-TV | 16.3 | 29 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Manassas (Washington, D.C.) | WPXW-TV | 66.3 | 43 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Norfolk | WPXV-TV | 49.3 | 46 | 2006 | |||
| Roanoke | WPXR-TV | 38.3 | 36 | 2006 | |||
| Bellevue–Seattle | KWPX-TV | 33.3 | 33 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Spokane | KGPX-TV | 34.3 | 34 | 2006 | |||
| Charleston | WLPX-TV | 29.3 | 39 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Martinsburg | WWPX-TV | 60.3 | 12 | 2006 | Operates as satellite of WPXW-TV, Manassas, Virginia | ||
| Antigo (Wausau) | WTPX-TV | 46.3 | 19 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
| Kenosha (Milwaukee) | WPXE-TV | 55.3 | 40 | 2006 | Ion Media Networks | ||
Former affiliates
| City of license/Market | Station | Current ownership | Years of affiliation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indianapolis, Indiana | WIPX-LD 51.3 | Word of God Fellowship | 2010–2014 | Operated as repeater of Bloomington, Indiana O&O WIPX-TV; license was donated to Word of God Fellowship in December 2014, to be converted into a repeater of Daystar owned-and-operated station WDTI |
| Louisville | WBNA 21.3 | Evangel World Prayer Center | 2006–2011 | |
References
- 1 2 "Stations for Network - Ion Life". RabbitEars. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
- ↑ "ION Media Networks - Main Page". Ion Media Networks. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
- ↑ Angela Mueller (December 11, 2013). "Judge approves creditors' proposal in Roberts Broadcasting bankruptcy". St. Louis Business Journal. American City Business Journals. Retrieved December 11, 2013.
- ↑ Lisa Brown (December 11, 2013). "Roberts' TV stations to be sold". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Lee Enterprises. Retrieved December 11, 2013.