WLPX-TV (channel 29) is a television station licensed to Charleston, West Virginia, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Charleston–Huntington market. The station is owned by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, and has offices on Prestige Park Drive in Hurricane; its transmitter is located on Barker Ridge Road in Ona, West Virginia near Milton.
History After originating as a construction permit in 1987 and receiving several extensions, WLPX-TV applied for its license on September 11, 1998. In the construction phase and for its first month on air, the station's calls were WKRP (the same as the fictional radio station in Cincinnati); it adopted its current call sign on October 5 of the same year. It has been a member of Ion (previously known as Pax TV and i: Independent Television) since its inception.
Technical information Subchannels The station's signal is multiplexed: +Subchannels of WLPX-TV Channel Res. Short name Programming 29.1 720p ION Ion Television 29.2 480i CourtTV Court TV 29.3 Bounce Bounce TV 29.4 Laff Laff 29.5 IONPlus Ion Plus 29.6 Busted Busted 29.7 GameSho Game Show Central 29.8 HSN HSN 29.9 QVC QVC
Analog-to-digital conversion WLPX-TV ended regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 29, 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 39, using virtual channel 29.
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