WFPX

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WFPX
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Branding	ION Television
Channels	62 (UHF) analog, 36 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	ION Television
Owner	ION Media Networks
Founded	1984 (as WFCT)
Call letters meaning	W Fayetteville's PaX
Former affiliations	Fox (1994-1998)
Website	www.ionline.tv

WFPX is one of two ION Television affiliates for the Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina television market, licensed to nearby Fayetteville. The station is owned by ION Media Networks (the former Paxson Communications), and is a sister station to WRPX. WFPX operates on UHF channel 62, with a digital signal on channel 36.

[edit] History

Channel 62 signed on in 1984 as WFCT, an independent broadcaster owned by Fayetteville/Cumberland Telecasters. Attorneys Robinson and Katherine Everett of Durham, founders of what is now present-day WRDC-TV in Raleigh, along with WJKA (now WSFX) in Wilmington and WGGT (now WMYV) in Greensboro, were two of the principals in this company.

The station changed call letters to WFAY in the early nineties and became a Fox affiliate in 1994. Even though WFAY was located in the same market as WLFL (a Fox affiliate at the time), it mainly focused on communities located south of Fayetteville who had not been receiving Fox programming. Some of its non-network programming was also simulcast to the Raleigh-Durham area on WRAY-TV for a couple of years in the mid-1990s until it was acquired by the Shop at Home network.

WFAY later became WFPX and dropped Fox after being bought out by Paxson in 1998. Later that year, newly-minted Fox station WFXB out of the Florence/Myrtle Beach market expanded its signal to cover areas formerly served by WFAY. It is worthy of note that WFPX's signal, which comes from Lumber Bridge, North Carolina, isn't seen at all in the northern portion of the Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville market, but covers northern portions of the Florence-Myrtle Beach market, which does not have its own ION affiliate.

[edit] Logos

Former WFAY-TV FOX62 Logo

[edit] External links

• ION Television website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WFPX

Broadcast television in the Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville market  (Nielsen DMA #29)
WUNC 4 / WUNU 31 / WUNP 36 (PBS/UNC-TV) - WRAL 5 (CBS) - WTVD 11 (ABC, The AccuWeather Channel on DT3) - WNCN 17 (NBC, WX+ on DT2) - WLFL 22 (The CW) - W24CP 24 (3ABN) - WTNC 26 (TFU) - WRDC 28 (MNTV) - WRAY 30 (Ind) - WACN-LP 34 (DS) - WUVC 40 (UNI) - WHFL-LP 43 (Worship) - WZGS 44 (Telemundo) - W45CN 45 / W45CO 45 / W63CW 63 / W64CN 64 (TBN) - WRPX 47 / WFPX 62 (ION) - WRAZ 50 (Fox) - WWIW-LP 66 (DS) - W67CD 67 (A1) - W68BK 68 (Educational)
Local cable television channels
News 14 Carolina
Out-of-market broadcast television available on cable in some parts of the market
WECT 6 (NBC, Wilmington)