KPXC-TV


KPXC-TV is a television station in Denver, Colorado, United States, affiliated with Ion Television. Owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings, the station maintains offices on South Jamaica Court in Aurora, and its transmitter is located in rural southwestern Weld County, east of Frederick.

History

The station first signed on the air on September 10, 1987, as KUBD. Originally operating as an independent station, the station aired financial news programming from the Financial News Network during the daytime hours and ran a general entertainment schedule at night. In 1989, KUBD became the original Denver area affiliate of the Spanish-language network Telemundo. FNN ceased operations two years later, when it was absorbed by CNBC. In 1995, KUBD was sold by its original ownership group to Christian Network, Inc., a non-profit organization co-founded by Bud Paxson, for $6.5 million. That year, KUBD switched to infomercial programming from inTV, and Telemundo programming moved to KSBS-TV. The CNI stations, including KUBD, were sold to Paxson Communications in 1996.
The station changed its call letters to KPXC-TV on February 2, 1998; KPXC became a charter owned-and-operated station of Paxson's new family-oriented broadcast network Pax TV when the network launched on August 31, 1998. In 2001, KPXC obtained the local television rights to carry select NHL games featuring the Colorado Avalanche; the deal to broadcast the games ended in 2003.
On December 15, 2014, Ion reached a deal to donate KPXC-TV's low-power repeater in Fort Collins, KPXH-LD, to Word of God Fellowship, parent company of the Daystar Television Network.
Following E. W. Scripps Company's purchase of Ion Media in 2021, KPXC lost its status as an Ion owned-and-operated station when it was sold along with 22 other stations to Inyo Broadcast Holdings to comply with FCC rules.

Newscasts

In September 2001, as part of its joint sales agreement with that station, KPXC-TV began airing tape delayed rebroadcasts of Gannett's NBC affiliate KUSA-TV 's 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts each Monday through Friday evening at 6:30 and 10:30 p.m.. The news rebroadcasts ended on June 30, 2005, when Pax's news share agreements with major network affiliates throughout the United States were terminated upon the network's rebranding as i: Independent Television, as a result of Paxson Communications' financial troubles.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:
ChannelRes.AspectShort nameProgramming
59.1720p16:9IONIon Television
59.2720p16:9BounceBounce TV
59.3480i16:9DEFYDefy
59.4480i16:9IONPlusIon Plus
59.5480i16:9BUSTEDBusted
59.6480i16:9GritGrit
59.7480i16:9GameShoGame Show Central
59.8480i16:9MeTOONSMeTV Toons

Analog-to-digital conversion

KPXC-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 59, on June 12, 2009, the official date on 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 43, using virtual channel 59.