WPXV-TV

Last updated
WPXV-TV
Channels
BrandingIon
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
  • Inyo Broadcast Holdings
  • (Inyo Broadcast Licenses LLC)
History
First air date
May 29, 1989(33 years ago) (1989-05-29)
Former call signs
WJCB (1989–1998)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
49 (UHF, 1989–2009)
Digital:
46 (UHF, until 2020)
Religious Ind. (1989–1997)
inTV (1997–1998)
Call sign meaning
Pax Virginia
Technical information
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 67077
ERP 865 kW [1]
HAAT 348 m (1,142 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 36°49′0″N76°28′5″W / 36.81667°N 76.46806°W / 36.81667; -76.46806
Links
Public license information
Website iontelevision.com

WPXV-TV (channel 49) is a television station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, United States, serving as the Ion Television affiliate for the Hampton Roads area. Owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings, the station has studios on Nansemond Parkway in Suffolk, Virginia, adjacent to the transmitter tower it shares with ABC affiliate WVEC (channel 13).

Contents

History

WJCB

On August 9, 1985, Tidewater Christian Communications received the construction permit for a new channel 49 television station at Norfolk. Tidewater Christian, controlled by several Black ministers from Hampton Roads-area churches, set up shop in the former WVEC studios in Hampton and built WJCB. The station would broadcast religious programming and family-oriented secular shows. [2] The first general manager was Dwight Green, son of Church of God in Christ bishop Samuel L. Green Jr. [2]

Channel 49 signed on the air May 29, 1989. At the outset, WJCB was hampered by a weak signal, and local cable companies refused to add the new station to their lineups. [3] It did not appear on some Hampton Roads systems until must-carry rules were reinstated in 1993. [4]

In 1994, WJCB went through a management change, as stockholders successfully pushed for a court order to install a new board to manage the money-losing station. Under new management, WJCB added home shopping programming from ViaTV in 1994, in an attempt to boost its revenue. [5] A year later, the station dropped ViaTV for programs from the new America One network and Infomall, an infomercial service owned by Paxson Communications Corporation; these aired alongside music videos and religious programs. [6]

Lockwood Broadcasting purchased WJCB from Tidewater Christian Communications in 1996 for $6.75 million. [7] [8] Lockwood already owned a network of low-power TV stations headed by WPEN-LP. [9] The company moved to spend $1.5 million on an improved transmitter for channel 49 and new studio facilities and to move the syndicated inventory of WPEN to the full-power station. [10]

Lockwood had no intention of selling the newly purchased WJCB; however, Paxson presented it with an offer to buy the station for $14.75 million—more than twice what Lockwood had paid to purchase it from Tidewater Christian—and the sale to Paxson was announced in December. [7]

WPXV-TV

WPXV "Pax 49" logo, used from 1998 to 2005. Wpxv.gif
WPXV "Pax 49" logo, used from 1998 to 2005.

Paxson Communications changed the WJCB call letters from WJCB to WPXV on March 2, 1998. Religious programming and infomercials as well as shopping programming continued to air on WPXV until August 31, when the station started airing Pax programming in the late afternoons and evenings with infomercials and religious programming during the day, with the launch of the then-new Pax network. [11] WPXV aired rebroadcasts of WAVY-TV's 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. weeknight newscasts at 7 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. weeknights from 2003 to 2004 and had master control in WAVY's studios until 2004 when Paxson and NBC broke up the agreement. [12] [13]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WPXV-TV [14]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
49.1 720p 16:9 ION Ion Television
49.2Scripps Scripps News
49.3 480i Mystery Ion Mystery
49.4Defy TV Defy TV
49.5Laff Laff
49.6Jewelry JTV
49.7QVC QVC
49.8HSN HSN

The Worship Network was previously seen on WPXV-TV's fourth digital subchannel; [11] however, Ion dropped The Worship Network on all Ion owned and operated stations on January 31, 2010, at midnight. [15]

Analog-to-digital conversion

WPXV-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 49, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. [16] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 46, using PSIP to display WPXV-TV's virtual channel as 49 on digital television receivers.

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  5. ↑ Nicholson, David (July 9, 1994). "Programming, management change on WJCB". Daily Press. p. D1. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
  6. ↑ Nicholson, David (August 26, 1995). "'buz tv' ditched from lineup on WTKR-TV". Daily Press. p. D1. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
  7. 1 2 Nicholson, David (October 5, 1997). "Paxson snatches up WJCB-TV". Daily Press. pp. B8, B9 . Retrieved November 2, 2020.
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  10. ↑ Nicholson, David (April 5, 1997). "Lockwood buys WJCB, plans upgrade". Daily Press. p. D1. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
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  14. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for WPXV
  15. ↑ "January 2010 Newsletter". Worship Network. 2010-01-23. Archived from the original on January 23, 2010. Retrieved 2011-11-13.
  16. ↑ List of Digital Full-Power Stations
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