WIPX-LD

Last updated
WIPX-LD
Channels
BrandingDaystar
Programming
Affiliations Daystar
Ownership
OwnerWord of God Fellowship, Inc.
History
First air date
October 30, 1990(33 years ago) (1990-10-30)
Former call signs
W51BU (1990–1998)
WIPX-LP (1998–2015)
ValueVision (1990–1998)
Pax TV, now Ion Television (1998–2014)
Call sign meaning
callsign from former sister station WIPX-TV
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID 65121
Class LD
ERP 9.5 kW
HAAT 291.7 m (957 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 39°53′40″N86°12′21″W / 39.89444°N 86.20583°W / 39.89444; -86.20583
Links
Public license information
LMS
Website daystar.com

WIPX-LD (channel 51) is a low-power religious television station in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, owned and operated by the Daystar Television Network. The station's transmitter is located on Walnut Drive in Indianapolis' northwest side. It is operated separately from full-power sister station WDTI (channel 69) in the city.

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History

The station signed on on October 30, 1990, as W51BU. It was originally silent, then affiliated with ValueVision sometime.

In August 1998, W51BU was acquired DP Media and was converted into a translator of WIIB (channel 63) and were affiliates of Pax TV (now Ion Television). The low-power translator also changed its callsign to WIPX-LP to reflect its new affiliation. When DP merged with Paxson Communications in 2000, WIPX-TV/LP were Pax TV owned-and-operated stations (Paxson had earlier attempted to purchase WB affiliate WNDY-TV [channel 23, now a MyNetworkTV affiliate] for $28.4 million in 1997, before it was outbid by a $35 million offer from the Paramount Stations Group that October [2] ).

As a former translator of WIPX-TV

WIPX-LP formerly relayed WIPX-TV's signal to the northern portions of Indianapolis that received a Grade B to a non-existent signal of WIPX-TV (including Kokomo, Marion and Muncie), although there was significant overlap between the two stations' contours otherwise. WIPX-LP was a straight simulcast of WIPX-TV; on-air references to WIPX-LP were limited to Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-mandated hourly station identifications during programming.

Sale of WIPX-LP to Daystar

On December 15, 2014, Ion Media Networks reached a deal to donate WIPX-LP to Word of God Fellowship, parent company of the Daystar network.

On October 8, 2015, the station returned to the air as digital-only WIPX-LD.

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References

  1. "Facility Technical Data for WIPX-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. WB, UPN woo WNDY-TV, Broadcasting & Cable , October 27, 1997.