KWPX-TV
Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox television station KWPX-TV (channel 33) is a television station licensed to Bellevue, Washington, United States, serving as the Ion Television outlet for the Seattle–Tacoma area. The station is owned and operated 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.
History
The station signed on the air as KBGE on May 17, 1989. Its original transmitter site was atop Columbia Center; the transmitter was later moved to West Tiger Mountain. The call letters became KWPX-TV on March 9, 1998, after the station was purchased by Paxson Communications, replacing ValueVision with its inTV network until the launch of Pax on August 31, 1998.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The station was a part of the early-2000s initiative by NBC to rebroadcast local newscasts a half-hour later on a Pax station; while KING-TV already featured newscasts on sister station KONG, KING-TV also rebroadcast its weeknight 11 p.m. newscasts on KWPX at 11:30 p.m.; these rebroadcasts were dropped in 2003.Template:Cn
Until 2021, the station carried Telemundo on its seventh subchannel, before Scripps' purchase of Ion Media nullified the agreement, in order to carry their subchannel networks. Cox-owned KIRO-TV relaunched the network in the market in the fall of 2022 over subchannel 7.4.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
| 33.2 | CourtTV | Court TV | ||
| 33.3 | 480i | Bounce | Bounce TV | |
| 33.4 | Grit | Defy | ||
| 33.5 | IONPlus | Ion Plus | ||
| 33.6 | BUSTED | Busted | ||
| 33.7 | GameSho | Game Show Central | ||
| 33.8 | QVC | QVC |
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.<ref name="Analog to Digital">List of Digital Full-Power Stations Template:Webarchive</ref> The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 32 to channel 33.<ref name="FCCForm387">CDBS Print</ref>
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