WRPX-TV

WRPX-TV
Rocky Mount/Raleigh/
Durham, North Carolina
United States
City Rocky Mount, North Carolina
Branding Ion Television
Slogan Positively Entertaining
Channels Digital: 15 (UHF)
(to move to 32 (UHF))
Virtual: 47 (PSIP)
Subchannels 47.1 Ion Television
47.2 Qubo
47.3 Ion Shop
47.5 QVC
47.6 HSN
Affiliations Ion Television (O&O; 1998–present)
Owner Ion Media Networks
(Ion Media Raleigh License, Inc.)
First air date 1992 (1992)
Call letters' meaning Raleigh's PaX TV
Sister station(s) WFPX-TV
Former callsigns WRMY (1992–1998)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
47 (UHF, 1992–2009)
Former affiliations Independent (1992–1998)
Transmitter power 180 kW
205 kW (CP)
Height 354 m (1,161 ft)
378 m (1,240 ft) (CP)
Class DT
Facility ID 20590
Transmitter coordinates 36°6′11.5″N 78°11′27.6″W / 36.103194°N 78.191000°W / 36.103194; -78.191000
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website Ion Television

WRPX-TV, virtual channel 47 (UHF digital channel 15), is an Ion Television owned-and-operated television station licensed to Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States and serving the Triangle region (Raleigh–Durham–Chapel Hill–Fayetteville). The station is owned by Ion Media Networks (the former Paxson Communications), as part of a duopoly with Archer Lodge-licensed Ion Life owned-and-operated station WFPX-TV (channel 62). The two stations share a sales office on Gresham Lake Road in Raleigh and transmitting facilities near Louisburg, North Carolina.

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

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Network
47.1720p16:9IONIon Television
47.2480i4:3QuboQubo
47.3ShopIon Shop
47.5QVCQVC
47.6HSNHSN

[1]

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.[2] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 47.

Out-of-market coverage

In recent years, WRPX-TV has been carried on cable in Oak City, which is within the Greenville media market.[3]

References

  1. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for WRPX
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid.do?method=decideFwdForLineup&zipcode=27857&setMyPreference=false&lineupId=NC54665:X


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