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{{Short description|Television station in Bellevue, Washington}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = KWPX-TV
| city                   = Bellevue, Washington
| logo                   =
| branding               =
| digital                = 33 ([[UHF]])
| virtual                = 33
| translators            =
| affiliations           = {{ubl|'''33.1:''' [[Ion Television]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| subchannels            =
| network                =
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 33 (UHF, 1989–2009)|'''Digital:''' 32 (UHF, until 2009)}}
| founded                =
| airdate                = {{start date and age|1989|5|17|p=y}}
| location               = [[Bellevue, Washington|Bellevue]]–[[Seattle]]–[[Tacoma, Washington]]
| country                = United States
| callsign_meaning       = Washington State Pax
| former_callsigns       = KBGE (1989–1998)
| owner                  = [[Ion Media]]
| licensee               = Ion Media License Company, [[LLC]]
| sister_stations        =
| former_affiliations    = {{ubl|[[Independent station|Independent]] (1989–1991)|[[ValueVision]] (1991–1998)}}
| erp                    = 400 [[kW]]
| haat                   = {{convert|716|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| class                  =
| facility_id            = 56852
| coordinates            = {{coord|47|30|16.3|N|121|58|10|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority    = [[FCC]]
| website                = {{URL|https://iontelevision.com/}}
}}
'''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, Washington|Preston]], and its transmitter is located on [[Tiger Mountain (Washington)|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 [[Tiger Mountain (Washington)|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>{{cite news|work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|first=John|last=Levesque|title=Growing Paxson empire extends its reach into Seattle|date=November 18, 1997|page=D6}}</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 (TV)|KONG]], KING-TV also rebroadcast its weeknight 11 p.m. newscasts on KWPX at 11:30 p.m.; these rebroadcasts were dropped in 2003.{{cn|date=September 2025}}

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 Media Group|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 [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KWPX-TV<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KWPX#station|title=Digital TV Market Listing for KWPX|website=[[RabbitEars]]|accessdate=December 5, 2024}}</ref>
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 33.1 
| rowspan="2"|[[720p]] || rowspan="8"|[[16:9]] || ION || [[Ion Television]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 33.2 
| CourtTV || [[Court TV]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 33.3 
| rowspan="6"|[[480i]] || Bounce || [[Bounce TV]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 33.4 
| Grit || [[Defy (TV network)|Defy]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 33.5 
| IONPlus || [[Ion Plus]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 33.6 
| BUSTED || [[Busted (TV network)|Busted]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 33.7 
| GameSho || [[Game Show Central]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 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 [[Digital television transition in the United States|federally mandated transition from analog to digital television]].<ref name="Analog to Digital">[http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf List of Digital Full-Power Stations] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |date=August 29, 2013 }}</ref> The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 32 to channel 33.<ref name="FCCForm387">[http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101257035&formid=387&fac_num=56852 CDBS Print<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Official website|https://iontelevision.com/}}

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