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| City | Jellico, Tennessee |
| Channels | |
| Branding | Ion |
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| History | |
First air date | January 1993 |
Former call signs | WPMC (1993–1998) |
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| HSN (1993–1998, now on DT8) | |
Call sign meaning | Pax TV Knoxville |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 52628 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW [1] |
| HAAT | 512.5 m (1,681 ft) [1] |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°0′19″N83°56′23″W / 36.00528°N 83.93972°W [1] |
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Public license information | |
| Website | iontelevision |
WPXK-TV (channel 54) is a television station licensed to Jellico, Tennessee, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Knoxville area. Owned and operated 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. [1] Despite Jellico being WPXK-TV's city of license, the station maintains no physical presence there.
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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.