WIPX
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| WIPX | |
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| Indianapolis, Indiana | |
| City of license | Bloomington, Indiana |
| Branding | ION Television |
| Channels | Analog: 63 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | ION Television |
| Owner | ION Media Networks, Inc. (Paxson Indianapolis License, Inc.) |
| First air date | December 27, 1988 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Indianapolis PaX |
| Former callsigns | WIIB (1988-1998) |
| Former affiliations | HSN (1988-1995) inTV (1995-1998) Pax TV (1998-2005) i (2005-2007) |
| Transmitter Power | 1820 kW (analog) 165 kW (digital) |
| Height | 328 m (analog) 310 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 10253 |
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| Website | www.ionline.tv |
WIPX is a commercial television station in Bloomington, Indiana, serving the Indianapolis market on channel 63 as an ION Television owned-and-operated station. Owned by ion Media Networks, the station runs informercials, religious programming, and family friendly shows and movies. Additionally, ION owns a repeater station in Indianapolis, WIPX-LP channel 51, to increase the reach of WIPX programming, though it has been recently listed as for sale in Broadcasting & Cable.
Channel Programming: 63.1 ION (simulcasting the analog station) 63.2 qubo 63.3 ION Life 63.4 Worship
[edit] History
The station signed on in December 1988 as WIIB. It was a Home Shopping Network station owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. There were plans to eventually switch WIIB to a general entertainment format. However, those plans never materialized, as Sinclair acquired WTTV in 1995 as a result of a merger. WIIB continued to air HSN programming until 1998, when it affiliated with Pax TV and changed its call sign to WIPX to reflect its new affiliation. The station was sold to Paxson Communications in 2000.
[edit] External links
- ION Television site
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WIPX
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WIPX-TV
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