| New London/Hartford/New Haven, Connecticut | |
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| Channels | Digital: 26 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | ION Television |
| Owner | Ion Media Networks, Inc. (Ion Media Hartford License, Inc.) |
| First air date | September 15, 1986 |
| Call letters' meaning | Hartford PaX |
| Former callsigns | WTWS (1986-1998) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 26 (1986-2009) |
| Former affiliations | independent (1986-1995) inTV (1995-1998) Pax TV (1998-2005) i (2005-2007) |
| Transmitter power | 95 kW |
| Height | 384 m |
| Facility ID | 51980 |
| Website | www.ionline.tv |
WHPX-TV is the Ion Television affiliate serving the Hartford / New Haven, Connecticut television market. It is owned and operated by Ion Media Networks and is licensed to New London, Connecticut.
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The station began operation on September 15, 1986 as WTWS. It was owned by R & R Media and ran a low-budget general entertainment format. In 1988, the station took over some programming from WHCT-TV (now WUVN) as a result of WHCT's financial problems.
In 1990, the station also began to take programming that WTXX (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 (predecssor to Ion Media Networks), and switched to Paxson's standard schedule of religious programming in the morning, infomercials in the afternoon and evenings, and worship programming overnight. The rights to its programming were acquired by LIN Television, which placed those shows on WTVU (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 (the predecessor to Ion Television) that year, and changed its call letters to WHPX to reflect its affiliation. Paxson bought DP Media in 2000.
On February 17, 2009 WHPX shut down its analog signal on channel 26 and moved its digital broadacast to that channel.[1]
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