WIPX-TV

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WIPX-TV/WIPX-LP
WIPX: Bloomington, Indiana WIPX-LP: Indianapolis, Indiana
Branding	ION Television
Slogan	Positively Entertaining
Channels	Analog: WIPX-LP: 51 (UHF) WIPX-TV: none Digital: WIPX-LP: none; CP to 34 (UHF) WIPX-TV: 27 (UHF)
Affiliations	Ion Television
Owner	Ion Media Networks, Inc. (Ion Media Indianapolis License, Inc.)
First air date	WIPX-LP: October 30, 1990 WIPX-TV: December 27, 1988
Call letters' meaning	Indianapolis PaX
Former callsigns	WIPX-LP: W51BU (1990-1998) WIPX: WIIB (1988-1998)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: WIPX-TV: 63 (UHF, 1988-2009)
Former affiliations	WIPX-LP: ValueVision Network (until 1998) WIPX-TV: HSN (1988-1995) inTV (1995-1998) WIPX-LP/WIPX: Pax TV (1998-2005) i (2005-2007)
Transmitter power	WIPX-TV: 165 kW (digital) WIPX-LP: 6.49 kw
Height	WIPX-TV: 310 m (digital)
Facility ID	WIPX-TV: 10253 WIPX-LP: 65121
Transmitter coordinates	WIPX-TV: 39°24′13.8″N 86°8′40.8″W / 39.403833°N 86.144667°W / 39.403833; -86.144667
Website	www.ionline.tv

WIPX-TV is a commercial television station in Bloomington, Indiana, serving the Indianapolis market on digital channel 63. Owned-and-operated by ION Media Networks, the station runs primarily infomercials along with shows and movies during the late afternoon and nighttime hours. Additionally, Ion owns a low power repeater station in Indianapolis, WIPX-LP channel 51, to improve WIPX' signal in the northern part of the city.

Digital television^[1]

The station's over-the-air digital channel is multiplexed:

**Digital channels**
Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming
63.1	720p	16:9	WIPX-DT	Main WIPX-TV programming (Ion Television)
63.2	480i	4:3	WIPX-D2	qubo
63.3			WIPX-D3	ION Life
63.4			WIPX-D4	ShopTV
63.5			WIPX-D5	QVC Over the Air

Analog-to-digital conversion

WIPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 63, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 27.^[2] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 63, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

History

The station signed on in December 1988 as WIIB. It was a Home Shopping Network (HSN) station owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. There were plans to eventually switch WIIB to a general entertainment format. However, those plans ended when Sinclair acquired WTTV (ironically, also licensed to Bloomington) in 1995 as a result of a merger. WIIB continued to air HSN programming until 1998, when it was sold to DP Media, owned by Devon Paxson, son of Pax founder Bud Paxson, and affiliated with Pax TV. WIIB changed its call sign to WIPX to reflect its new affiliation. DP Media merged with Paxson Communications in 2000. WIPX showed rebroadcasts of WTHR's 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts from 2000 to 2005; many Pax stations aired repeats of NBC affiliates’ newscasts during this time. Also for a brief time, in 2005, WTHR produced a 10 p.m. newscast live every night.

References

↑ RabbitEars TV Query for WIPX
↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.

External links

v t e Television stations in Central Indiana, including Indianapolis

English stations	WTTV / WTTK (4.1/29.1 CW, 4.2/29.2 This TV) WRTV (6.1 ABC, 6.2 HTSN, 6.3 LWN) WISH-TV (8.1 CBS, 8.2 weather, 8.3 Doppler weather radar) WTHR (13.1 NBC, 13.2 Cozi TV, 13.3 Me-TV) WIIH-CD (17.1 weather) WFYI (20.1 PBS, 20.3 WFYI 3) WNDY-TV (23.1 MNTV, 23.2 Bounce TV) WALV-CD (46.1 Cozi TV) WIPX-LP 51 (51 Ion) WXIN (59.1 Fox, 59.2 Antenna TV) WIPX-TV (63.1 Ion, 63.2 Qubo, 63.3 ION Life) WDTI (69.1 DS)

Spanish stations	WDNI-CD (19.1 Telemundo) WFYI (20.2 V-me) WCLJ-TV (42.4 Enlace) WBXI-47 (Tr3s)

Religious	WKOG-LP 31 / WKGK-LP 50 (Rel.) WHMB-TV (40.1 LeSEA, 40.2 WHT) WCLJ-TV (42.1 TBN, 42.2 TCC, 42.3 JCTV, 42.4 Enlace, 42.5 SOAC) WDTI (69.1 DS)

Outlying areas	Martinsville: WREP-LD 15 (A1) Bloomington: WTIU (30.1 PBS, 30.2 World, 30.3 Create, 30.4 V-me) WCLJ-TV (42.1 TBN, 42.2 TCC, 42.3 JCTV, 42.4 Enlace, 42.5 SOAC) Muncie: WIPB (49.1 PBS, 49.2 Create, 49.3 weather) Marion: WIWU-CD 51 (Rel.) WSOT-LD 57 (Rel.)

Cable channels	WCTY-TV 16 (Government Access) Fox Sports Indiana HTSN (Hometown Sports & News)

Defunct	Muncie: WMUN-LP 26 (TBN) Brookston: WAJN-LP 43 (Ind.)

Adjacent areas: Central Illinois Chicago Cincinnati Dayton Evansville Fort Wayne Lafayette Louisville South Bend Terre Haute

v t e Other Television Stations in the state of Indiana

America One affiliates	WREP-LD 15 (Martinsville) WHAN 17 (Salem) WJTS-CD 18 (Jasper)

Independent stations	W06BD 6 (Princeton) WWJS-CD 9 (Clarksville) WAAA-LP 49 (Westville)

Other Chicago market stations	WODN-LP 13 (DW, Portage)

Other Indianapolis market stations	WIIH-CD 17 (Local Weather Station) WDNI-CD 19 (Telemundo) WBXI-CA 47 (Tr3s) WALV-CD 50 (Cozi TV) WIPX 63 (ION)

See also ABC CBS CW Fox ION MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in Indiana See also Religious and Spanish TV stations

v t e Ion Media Networks

O&O Television stations (carry Ion Television unless otherwise noted)	KBPX¹ KFPX KGPX KKPX KOPX KPPX KPXB KPXC KPXD KPXE KPXG KPXL KPXM KPXN KPXO KPXR KSPX KTPX KUPX KWPX WBPX / WDPX / WPXG WCPX WEPX WFPX WGPX WHPX WINP WIPX WLPX WNPX WOPX WPPX WPXA WPXC WPXD WPXE WPXH WPXJ WPXK WPXL WPXM WPXN WPXP WPXQ WPXR WPXU WPXV WPXW WPXX WQPX WRPX WSPX WTPX WUPX WVPX WWPX WXPX WYPX WZPX

Other ION Affiliates (owned by other broadcasters)	KCLG KCVB KDMD KDMD-LP KPVM / K46KA-D KQEG / WIBU-LP KTSS WBGR WBNA WHCQ-LD / WEBU-LP / WPRQ-LD WKFK-LD WNMN

Other assets	Qubo Ion Life

1: Affiliated with ZUUS Country.

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