WPXK-TV (channel 54) is a television station licensed to Jellico, Tennessee, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Knoxville area. Owned 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 Ridge in North Knoxville. Despite Jellico being WPXK-TV's city of license, the station maintains no physical presence there.
Signing on the air in 1993 as WPMC with a small coverage area, it offered primarily religious and home shopping programming until August 1998 when it became WPXK-TV, joining the Pax TV network (the predecessor to Ion) and greatly increasing its signal coverage across the entire Knoxville market.
Technical information Subchannels The station's signal is multiplexed: +Subchannels of WPXK-TV Channel Res. Short name Programming 54.1 720p ION Ion Television 54.2 480i CourtTV Court TV 54.3 Laff Laff 54.4 Mystery Ion Mystery 54.5 IONPlus 54.6 GameSho Game Show Central 54.7 QVC QVC 54.8 HSN HSN 54.9 QVC2 QVC2
Analog-to-digital conversion 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, using virtual channel 54.
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