WHPX-TV

WHPX-TV, virtual channel 26 (UHF digital channel 28), is an Ion Television owned-and-operated station licensed to New London, Connecticut, United States and serving the Hartford–New Haven television market. The station is owned by West Palm Beach, Florida-based Ion Media Networks (the former Paxson Communications). WHPX-TV's offices are located in New London, and its transmitter is located on Rattlesnake Mountain in Farmington, Connecticut. WHPX-TV's facilities also serve as the main studio for Federal Communications Commission (FCC) purposes for sister stations WPXQ-TV and WLWC in Providence, Rhode Island.

WHPX-TV
New London/Hartford–New Haven, Connecticut
United States
CityNew London, Connecticut
ChannelsDigital: 28 (UHF)
Virtual: 26 (PSIP)
BrandingIon Television
SloganPositively Entertaining
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
OwnerIon Media Networks
(Ion Media Hartford License, Inc.)
History
First air dateSeptember 15, 1986 (1986-09-15)
Former call signsWTWS (1986–1998)
Former channel number(s)Analog:
26 (UHF, 1986–2009)
Digital:
34 (UHF, until 2009)
26 (UHF, 2009–2019)
Former affiliationsIndependent (1986–1995)
inTV (1995–1998)
Call sign meaningHartford PaX
Technical information
Licensing authorityFCC
Facility ID51980
ERP500 kW [1]
HAAT504.83 m (1,656 ft)[1]
Transmitter coordinates41°42′13″N 72°49′55″W [1]
Links
Public license informationProfile
LMS
Websiteiontelevision.com

History

The station began operation on September 15, 1986 as independent station WTWS, with transmitter in the Oakdale neighborhood of Montville near Lake Konomoc. It was owned by C&S Broadcasting with majority owner Neil Denenberg and ran a low-budget general entertainment format. In 1988, the station took over some programming from WHCT-TV (channel 18, now Univision affiliate WUVN) as a result of that station's financial problems.

In 1990, the station also began to acquire programming that WTXX (channel 20, now WCCT-TV) chose not to renew. It also offered to pick up WTXX's programming inventory in 1992, but WTXX's owner (Renaissance Broadcasting) declined.

The station had added more infomercials to its lineup by 1993. Two years later, it was sold to Paxson Communications, and switched to Paxson's standard schedule of religious programming in the morning, infomercials in the afternoon and evenings, and worship programming overnight after affiliating with inTV. The rights to its programming were acquired by LIN Television, which placed those shows on WTVU (channel 59, now WCTX).

Paxson then began programming WHCT in 1997, and sold WTWS to Roberts Broadcasting. Roberts, in turn, sold the station to DP Media the following year. However, DP Media was owned by—and named for—Devon Paxson, son of Paxson Communications founder Bud Paxson. Paxson then cut its ties with WHCT and took control of WTWS. The station then affiliated with Pax TV (the predecessor to Ion Television) that year, and changed its call letters to WHPX-TV to reflect its affiliation. Paxson bought DP Media in 2000.

From 2001 until 2005, WHPX re-aired newscasts produced by NBC owned-and-operated station WVIT (channel 30).

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming
26.1720p16:9IONMain Ion Television programming
26.2480i4:3quboQubo
26.3IONPlusIon Plus
26.4ShopIon Shop
26.5QVCQVC
26.6HSNHSN

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Analog-to-digital conversion

WHPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 26, on February 17, 2009, to conclude the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[3] The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 34 to channel 26.

In conjunction with the repack of Connecticut television stations on August 2, 2019, WHPX now transmits on channel 28 from Rattlesnake Mountain in Farmington[1] where many Connecticut television station transmitters are located.

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gollark: But that is... absolutely not the case.
gollark: I mean, yes, if you already trust everyone to act sensibly and without doing bad stuff, then privacy doesn't matter for those reasons.
gollark: Oh, and as an extension to the third thing, if you already have some sort of vast surveillance apparatus, even if you trust the government of *now*, a worse government could come along and use it later for... totalitarian things.
gollark: For example:- the average person probably does *some* sort of illegal/shameful/bad/whatever stuff, and if some organization has information on that it can use it against people it wants to discredit (basically, information leads to power, so information asymmetry leads to power asymmetry). This can happen if you decide to be an activist or something much later, even- having lots of data on you means you can be manipulated more easily (see, partly, targeted advertising, except that actually seems to mostly be poorly targeted)- having a government be more effective at detecting minor crimes (which reduced privacy could allow for) might *not* actually be a good thing, as some crimes (drug use, I guess?) are kind of stupid and at least somewhat tolerable because they *can't* be entirely enforced practically

References
  1. "Amendment to a Modification of a DTV Station Construction Permit Application". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. February 15, 2019. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
  2. RabbitEars TV Query for WHPX
  3. List of Digital Full-Power Stations
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