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| City | Jellico, Tennessee |
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| Branding | Ion |
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| History | |
First air date | January 1993 (31 years ago) (1993-01) |
Former call signs | WPMC (1993–1998) |
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Call sign meaning | Pax TV Knoxville |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 52628 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW[1] |
| HAAT | 512.5 m (1,681 ft)[1] |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°0′19″N 83°56′23″W / 36.00528°N 83.93972°W / 36.00528; -83.93972[1] |
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| Website | iontelevision |
WPXK-TV (channel 54) is a television station licensed to Jellico, Tennessee, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Knoxville area. Owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, the station has offices on Executive Park Drive in west Knoxville, and its transmitter is located on Sharp's RidgeinNorth Knoxville.[1] Despite Jellico being WPXK-TV's city of license, the station maintains no physical presence there.
The station's signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 54.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
| 54.2 | 480i | CourtTV | Court TV | |
| 54.3 | Laff | Laff | ||
| 54.4 | Mystery | Ion Mystery | ||
| 54.5 | Scripps | Scripps News | ||
| 54.6 | Jewelry | JTV | ||
| 54.7 | QVC | QVC | ||
| 54.8 | HSN | HSN | ||
| 54.9 | QVC2 | QVC2 |
WPXK-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 54, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 23,[4] using virtual channel 54.
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(*) – indicates station is in one of Tennessee's primary TV markets
(**) – indicates station is in an out-of-state TV market, but reaches a small portion of Tennessee
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(*) – indicates station is in one of Kentucky's primary TV markets
(**) – indicates station is in an out-of-state TV market, but reaches a small portion of Kentucky
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