WPXA (TV)

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WPXA
Atlanta, Georgia
City of license	Rome, Georgia
Branding	ION Television
Channels	14 (VHF) analog, 51 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	ION Television
Owner	ION Media Networks (Paxson Atlanta License, Inc.)
Founded	February 13, 1984
Call letters meaning	W Paxson Atlanta
Former callsigns	WZGA (1984-1987) WAWA-TV (1987-1990) WTLK-TV (1990-1998)
Former affiliations	Independent (1988-1998) PAX (1998-2005)
Transmitter Power	3890 kW/616 m(analog) 1000 kW/622 m (digital)
Website	www.ionline.tv/

WPXA is a television station on channel 14 in the metro Atlanta area, and carries ION Television network programming. The station's transmitter and antenna are located north-northwest of Atlanta on Bear Mountain near Waleska, near the Cherokee/Bartow county line. The TV studio is located in Marietta, next to Six Flags White Water along U.S. 41 (Cobb Parkway). It is owned by ION Media Networks, and Rome is its city of license.

The station's broadcast range extends into parts of Alabama and Tennessee and even the southwest corner of North Carolina. However, terrain shielding not accounted for in radio propagation models prevents this from regularly occurring, due to the north Georgia mountains.

As with many ION O&O TV stations, this digital television station normally transmits four SDTV programs. Channel 14.1 transmits the simulcast of the analog feed, and channel 14.2 transmits qubo. Channel 14.3 transmits ION Life and channel 14.4 transmits Worship Network.

[edit] History

The station began operating on Channel 14 on February 13, 1984 as WZGA. It had a general entertainment format of low budget shows, public domain movies and preempted network programs. The station changed its call letters and became WAWA-TV in 1987 for more programs that preempted of Atlanta, GA's Big 3 Network-affiliated stations. In 1990, the station became WTLK-TV and picked up CBS News This Morning and CBS late-night shows preempted by WAGA TV as well as NBC shows prempted by WXIA-TV. WTLK also picked up a lot of unwanted talk shows.

The station was owned by American Communications before being sold to Paxson in 1996. The station's format consisted of infomercials by day and Worship TV at night. Since 1998, it also ran Pax television programming & became WPXA-TV 2 years earlier.

The station's radio tower on Bear Mountain was also the first location for WCHK-FM 105.5, now WWVA-FM 105.7.

[edit] Former callsigns

• 1984: WZGA
• 1987: WAWA-TV
• 1990: WTLK-TV (for a TaLK show format)
• 1998: WPXA (PaXson Atlanta)

[edit] External links

• ION Television website
• FCC map of WPXA
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WPXA

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Television stations in the Atlanta market (Nielsen DMA #9)

WSB 2 (ABC) - WUVM-LP 4 (Azteca América) - WAGA 5 (Fox) - WGTV 8 (PBS/GPB) - WXIA 11 (NBC) - WPXA 14 (ION) - WTBS 17 (TBS) - WCLP 18 (PBS/GPB) - W24AL 24 (HSN) - WANX-LP 26 (Jewelry TV) - WPBA 30 (PBS) - WANN-LP 32 (Ind) - WNEG 32 (CBS) - WUVG 34 (UNI) - WATL 36 (MNTV) - W38CU 38 (TEL) - WIRE-CA 40 (MTV2) - WAGC-LP 42 (Ind) - WGCL 46 (CBS) - WDTA-LP 53 (DS) - WYGA 55 (Ind) - W55BM 55 (JCTV) - WATC 57 / WSKC-CA 22 (Religious) - WHSG 63 (TBN) - WUPA 69 (The CW)

Local digital television channels WTHC-LP 42 (TIS)

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