KPXG

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KPXG
city = Salem, Oregon
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding = ION Television
analog = 22 (UHF)
digital = 4 (VHF)
other_chs = KPXG-LP 54 Portland (city)
K14LP Cottage Grove
affiliations = ION Television
network =
founded =
airdate = November 21, 1981
location = Portland, Oregon
callsign_meaning = PaX TV OreGon
former_callsigns = KECH (1981-1986)
KWVT (1986-1987)
KHSP (1987-1988)
KBSP-TV (1988-1998)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = ION Media Networks, Inc.
licensee = Paxson Salem License, Inc.
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = independent (1981-1987)
FNN (1982-1985)
HSN (1987-1998)
Pax TV (1998-2005)
i (2005-2007)
effective_radiated_power = 1700 kW (analog)
16 kW (digital)
HAAT = 363 m (analog)
490 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 5801
coordinates = coord|44|59|55|N|122|41|41.5|W|type:landmark_scale:2000 (analog)
coord|45|31|20.5|N|122|44|49.5|W|type:landmark_scale:2000 (digital)
homepage = [http://www.ionline.tv/ www.ionline.tv]

KPXG is the ION Television affiliate licensed to Salem, Oregon, and serves the Portland, Oregon-Vancouver, Washington television market. It broadcasts on analog Channel 22/ATSC Channel 4. It operates translator KPXG-LP, channel 54, to further enhance Portland coverage. Also covers part of the Eugene TV market, over the air and cable as well.

The station's current programming consists of the ION national feed including religious programs, plus paid infomercials and local advertising spots. The network programing on Friday includes qubo in the afternoon and ION Life in the early evening. Both programing blocks are now full time digital sub-channels.

History

The station went on air on November 21, 1981 as KECH. It was started by general partners Chris Desmond and Arnold Brustin, both formerly associated with CBS. [Salem-Based TV to reach Clark County. "The Columbian", November 10, 1981] It broadcasted old movies and TV shows using the slogan "Catch 22". By mid-1982, the station was offering the ON-TV subscription service. Customers would be supplied with small yagi antenna, amplifier if needed and a Set-top box.

The station reverted to a general entertainment format in 1984, and changed its call sign to KWVT on October 1, 1986. It began airing Home Shopping Network, owned by HSN's broadcasting arm, Silver King Television. Programming during the overnight in 1986, HSN programming was added to the midday later that year, and by 1987 the station ran HSN programming full-time. At that point the station was sold to Blackstar Broadcasting, and changed its call sign first to KHSP on September 17, 1987, and then KBSP-TV on April 21, 1988. During that year, the station carried the Oregon Megabucks drawings; the program was produced in conjunction with the Oregon Lottery, which discontinued the program by 1990.

Blackstar sold the station to Paxson Communications (now ION Media Networks) on January 19, 1996, and the station began to air religious programming in the morning, informercials in the afternoon and evening, and Worship Network programming overnight. On July 1, 1998 the station changed it call letters to KPXG and began airing Pax TV programming from noon to midnight (reduced to 4–11pm by 2003). It remains an affiliate of the ION Television network owned by ION, following the network's rebrandings from Pax TV and i.

KPXG-LP history

Originally on channel 43, it first signed on the air in the Spring of 1994, as K43EK. The station was formerly licensed to VVILPTV Inc., which aired ValueVision shopping programing for four years.

In 1998 K43EK was bought by Paxson Communications. A few months later Paxson Communications was able to convert it to a translator of KPXG, and soon changed the calls to KPXG-LP.

The station now broadcasts on channel 54, with a pending move to channel 42. Other call letters assigned to channel in the past were K60DW.

Station Brandings

*"One Good Thing Leads To Another"
*"Here's The Thing To Do Catch 22"

Digital Television

The station's over the air digital channel is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009 http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf] , KPXG will move its digital broadcasts back to its present analog channel number, 22. [http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101257030&formid=387&fac_num=5801 CDBS Print ] ]

News/Station Presentation

Newscast Titles

*"Northwest NewsChannel 8 @ Ten On PAX" (2003-2005)

External links

* [http://www.ionline.tv/ ION Television website]
*TVQ|KPXG
**TVQ|K14LP
*BIA|KPXG|TV|TV

References