| Rocky Mount/Raleigh, North Carolina | |
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| Branding | ION Television |
| Channels | Digital: 15 (UHF) Virtual: 47 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | 47.1 Ion Television 47.2 qubo 47.3 ION Life |
| Owner | Ion Media Networks, Inc. (Ion Media Raleigh License, Inc.) |
| First air date | 1992 |
| Call letters' meaning | Raleigh's PaX TV |
| Former callsigns | WRMY (1992-1998) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 47 (1992-2009) |
| Former affiliations | independent (1992-1998) Pax TV (1998-2005) i (2005-2007) |
| Transmitter power | 180 kW (digital) |
| Height | 354 m |
| Facility ID | 20590 |
| Website | www.ionline.tv |
WRPX-TV is one of two Ion Television affiliates for the Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina television market, licensed to nearby Rocky Mount. The station is owned by ion Media Networks (the former Paxson Communications), and is a sister station to WFPX. WRPX operates on UHF digital channel 15. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display WRPX's virtual channel as 47.1.
As part of the analog television and digital conversion, WRPX shut down its analog transmitter on channel 47, on June 12, 2009 at 12:00PM.
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