WPXK-TV


WPXK-TV is a television station licensed to Jellico, Tennessee, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Knoxville area. Owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, the station has offices on Executive Park Drive in west Knoxville, and its transmitter is located on Sharp's Ridge in North Knoxville. Despite Jellico being WPXK-TV's city of license, the station maintains no physical presence there.
Signing on the air in 1993 as WPMC with a small coverage area, it offered primarily religious and home shopping programming until August 1998 when it became WPXK-TV, joining the Pax TV network and greatly increasing its signal coverage across the entire Knoxville market.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:
ChannelRes.AspectShort nameProgramming
54.1720p16:9IONIon Television
54.2480i16:9CourtTVCourt TV
54.3480i16:9LaffLaff
54.4480i16:9MysteryIon Mystery
54.5480i16:9IONPlus
54.6480i16:9GameShoGame Show Central
54.7480i16:9QVCQVC
54.8480i16:9HSNHSN
54.9480i16:9QVC2QVC2

Analog-to-digital conversion

WPXK-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 54, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States Digital television transition 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 23, using virtual channel 54.