KWPX-TV

KWPX-TV, virtual and UHF digital channel 33, is an Ion Television owned-and-operated station serving Seattle and Tacoma, Washington, United States that is licensed to Bellevue. The station is owned by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. KWPX-TV's offices are located on 304th Avenue Southeast in Preston, and its transmitter is located on West Tiger Mountain near Issaquah.

KWPX-TV
Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma, Washington
United States
CityBellevue, Washington
ChannelsDigital: 33 (UHF)
Virtual: 33
BrandingIon
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
OwnerIon Media
(E. W. Scripps Company)
(Ion Media License Company, LLC)
History
First air date
May 17, 1989 (1989-05-17)
Former call signs
KBGE (1989–1998)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
33 (UHF, 1989–2009)
Digital:
32 (UHF, until 2009)
Analog/DT1:
ValueVision (until 1998)
DT7:
Telemundo (until 2021)
Call sign meaning
Washington's PaX TV
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID56852
ERP400 kW
HAAT716 m (2,349 ft)
Transmitter coordinates47°30′16.3″N 121°58′10″W
Links
Public license information
Profile
LMS
Websiteiontelevision.com

History

The station signed on the air as KBGE on May 17, 1989. Its original transmitter site was atop the Columbia Center Tower; the transmitter was later moved to West Tiger Mountain—which is also known as "West Tiger #3". The call letters became KWPX-TV on March 9, 1998, after the station was purchased by Paxson Communications; it had been broadcasting ValueVision home shopping.[1]

As of April 23, 2010, KWPX-TV is broadcasting Ion programming in HD.

As of July 1, 2021 33.5 changed from QVC to DefyTV, stylized with an upside and backwards "f", and 33.6 changed from HSN to TrueReal stylized "TruReal". Prior to this change both channels were shopping channels that advertised consumer goods that viewers purchased over the phone or through the channels matching website.[2]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[3]
33.1720p16:9IONIon Television
33.2480iCourtTVCourt TV
33.3BounceBounce TV
33.4GritGrit
33.5Defy TVDefy TV
33.6TruRealTrueReal
33.7NEWSYNewsy

Analog-to-digital conversion

KWPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 33, on February 17, 2009, to conclude the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[4] The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 32 to frequency, channel 33.[5]

References
  1. Levesque, John (November 18, 1997). "Growing Paxson empire extends its reach into Seattle". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. p. D6.
  2. "New Scripps Networks Defy TV, TrueReal Launch in 92% of U.S. | Broadcasting+Cable".
  3. "Digital TV Market Listing for KWPX". www.rabbitears.info.
  4. List of Digital Full-Power Stations Archived 2013-08-29 at the Wayback Machine
  5. CDBS Print


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