WWPX

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WWPX
(satellite of WPXW,
Washington, DC)
city =
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding = ION Television
analog = 60 (UHF)
digital = 12 (VHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = Ion Television
network =
founded =
airdate = October 1, 1991
location = Martinsburg, West Virginia
callsign_meaning = Washington's PaX TV
former_callsigns = WYVN (1991-1996)
WSHE-TV (1996-1998)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = ION Media Networks, Inc.
licensee = Paxson Washington-60 License, Inc.
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = Fox (1991-1993)
independent (1993-1994)
silent (1994-1996)
inTV (1996-1998)
Pax TV (1998-2005)
i (2005-2007)
effective_radiated_power = 2040 kW (analog)
23 kW (digital)
HAAT = 300 m (analog)
314 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 23264
coordinates = coord|39|27|27.6|N|78|3|51.5|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.iontelevision.com/ www.iontelevision.com]

WWPX is the Ion Television (formerly PAX and i) affiliate licensed to Martinsburg, West Virginia, and serving the northwestern portion of the Washington, DC television market. [cite web|last=Hughes|first=Dave|url=http://www.dcrtv.org/mediawt.html|title=Washington DC/Baltimore Area TV Stations|publisher=dcrtv.com| language=English|accessdate=May 21|accessyear=2006] The station is owned by ION Media Networks, and broadcasts on UHF channel 60, with a digital signal on VHF channel 12. It is currently a relay of Washington's other ION affiliate, WPXW channel 66.

History

Channel 60 signed on in 1991 as WYVN, a Fox affiliate. A news department was quickly set up, and offered more news than other stations in the area. However, Flying A Communications, the owner, found itself in financial trouble, due to this local news commitment and relatively poor ratings (partially caused by its location on cable, which was higher than other stations), leading to the station shutting down two years later, in 1993, after a sale to Benchmark Communications (who would have converted the station to a CBS affiliate for Winchester, Virginia under the WUSQ-TV callsign) fell through. A few months later, WYVN returned as an independent station, owned by Green River. The station tried to restore some local programming (including the newscast and a new talk show hosted by Gay Dawson), but further financial trouble caused this era to also end up being short-lived, abruptly ending in 1994.

The station returned again in 1996 as WSHE-TV, a Paxson Communications station that aired the company's standard infomercial format, with religious programming in some dayparts. The station changed its call letters to WWPX in 1998, and soon after joined the Pax network and began to simulcast Washington, DC's WPXW.

External links

* [http://www.iontelevision.com/ ION Television website]
*TVQ|WWPX
*BIA|WWPX|TV|TV

References