WPXK-TV (channel 54) is a

television station A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity, such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth ...

licensed to Jellico, Tennessee, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Knoxville area.

Owned and operated In the broadcasting industry, an owned-and-operated station (frequently abbreviated as an O&O) usually refers to a television or radio station owned by the network with which it is associated. This distinguishes such a station from an affiliate ...

by the

Ion Media Ion Media (formerly known as Paxson Communications Corporation and Ion Media Networks) was an American broadcasting company that owned and operated over 71 television stations in most major American markets (through its television stations group ...

subsidiary of the

E. W. Scripps Company The E. W. Scripps Company is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis "E. W." Scripps and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps. It was also formerly a media conglomerate. The company is he ...

, the station has offices on Executive Park Drive in west Knoxville, and its transmitter is located on Sharp's Ridge in

North Knoxville North Knoxville is the section of Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, that lies north of the city's downtown area. It is concentrated around Broadway ( US-441), Clinton Highway ( US-25W), Tazewell Pike (TN-331), Washington Pike, and adjacent roads, and inc ...

. Despite Jellico being WPXK-TV's city of license, the station maintains no physical presence there.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion

WPXK-TV shut down its analog signal, over

UHF Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (on ...

channel 54, 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 23. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's

virtual channel In most telecommunications organizations, a virtual channel is a method of remapping the ''program number'' as used in H.222 Program Association Tables and Program Mapping Tables to a channel number that can be entered via digits on a receiver's ...

as its former UHF analog channel 54, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wpxk-Tv PXK-TV E. W. Scripps Company television stations Ion Television affiliates Court TV affiliates Laff (TV network) affiliates Ion Mystery affiliates Scripps News affiliates TrueReal affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1993 1993 establishments in Tennessee