WPXS

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WPXS
city =
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding = St. Louis' RTN
analog = 13 (VHF)
digital = 21 (UHF)
other_chs = KUMO-LP 51 St. Louis
affiliations = RTN
network =
founded =
airdate = March 1983 [The "Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook" says March 1, while the "Television and Cable Factbook" says March 13.]
location = Mount Vernon, Illinois
callsign_meaning = Pax TV Southern Illinois
-or-
Pax TV St. Louis
former_callsigns = WCEE (1983-1998)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Word of God Fellowship, Inc.
"(operated by Equity Media Holdings Corporation)"
licensee = WPXS, Inc.
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = independent (1983-1998)
Pax TV (1998-2004)
effective_radiated_power = 302 kW (analog)
350 kW (digital)
HAAT = 302 m (analog)
91 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 40861
coordinates = coord|38|32|37.7|N|88|55|27.9|W|type:landmark_scale:2000 (analog)
coord|38|41|19.4|N|89|33|37.3|W|type:landmark_scale:2000 (digital)
homepage =

WPXS and KUMO-LP are the two Retro Television Network affiliates serving Southern Illinois and the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area. WPXS is in the Paducah-Cape Girardeau-Harrisburg television market but is close enough to St. Louis to serve that area as well . The stations are owned by the Word Of God Fellowship, and managed by Equity Media Holdings, programmed via satellite from Equity's Little Rock, Arkansas headquarters.

WPXS is based out of Mount Vernon, Illinois and broadcasts to Southern Illinois on channel 13. Their transmitter is located north of Kell, Illinois. The call letters of WPXS stand for Pax Southern Illinois, reflecting the former Pax affiliation. WPXS aired Pax network programming from August, 1998 until late 2004. Pax itself changed its name to i in September of the following year, and then to ION in 2007.

KUMO-LP is the satellite station of WPXS. It serves the St. Louis metropolitan area on channel 51.

The digital broadcast for WPXS-DT will be on channel 21, but is not on the air yet (as of Oct. 4, 2007). The digital broadcast for KUMO-LD will be on channel 10, which is not on the air as of May 22, 2008.

History

The precursor to WPXS started operating in June of 1982.

Before becoming WPXS in 1998, this station operated as WCEE "C-13." WCEE was an independent television station which showed a mix of syndicated programs, movies, and reruns, as well as some Chicago Bulls NBA Basketball games during the winter months and some MLB Baseball games of the Chicago Cubs and White Sox during the summer months. WCEE was also unusual for a small-market television station because it produced a 30-minute newscast on weekdays, as well as carried "PM Magazine". ( [http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,90154.0.html] )

Older logos

External links

* [http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Cable/Orders/1997/da971002.txt FCC Decision on WCEE must-carry in the St. Louis area]
*TVQ|WPXS
**TVQ|KUMO
*BIA|WPXS|TV|TV

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