WPXU-TV (channel 38) is a
television station
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licensed to
Jacksonville, North Carolina
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, United States, broadcasting the
Ion Television
Ion Television is an American broadcast television network owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. The network first began broadcasting on August 31, 1998, as Pax TV, focusing primarily on family-oriented en ...
network to
southeastern North Carolina
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.
Owned and operated
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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 List of stations owned and operated by Ion Media, 71 television stations in most major Americ ...
subsidiary of the
E. W. Scripps Company
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, the station maintains a transmitter near
Holly Ridge, North Carolina
Holly Ridge is a town in Onslow County, North Carolina, United States. The 2010 population was 1,268. It is part of the Jacksonville, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is considered the gateway to Topsail Island.
Population Boom: I ...
.
WPXU-TV operates as a full-time
satellite
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of
Greenville-licensed
WEPX-TV
WEPX-TV (channel 38) is a television station licensed to Greenville, North Carolina, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to Eastern North Carolina. Owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, t ...
(channel 38). WPXU covers areas of southeastern North Carolina that receive a marginal to non-existent
over-the-air signal from WEPX, although there is significant overlap between the two stations'
contours
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* Pitch contour
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otherwise, including in Jacksonville proper. WPXU is a straight
simulcast
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of WEPX; on-air references to WPXU are limited to
Federal Communications Commission
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(FCC)-mandated hourly
station identification
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s during programming. Aside from the transmitter, WPXU does not maintain any physical presence locally in Jacksonville.
WPXU-TV and WEPX-TV were affiliates of
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated MyTV, MyNet, MNT or MNTV, and sometimes referred to as My Network) is an American commercial broadcast television syndication service and former television network owned by Fox Corporation, operated by its ...
from September 5, 2006 until September 27, 2009 when MyNetworkTV's affiliation switched over to
WITN-TV
WITN-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Washington, North Carolina, United States, serving Eastern North Carolina as an affiliate of NBC and MyNetworkTV. Owned by Gray Television, the station has primary studio facilities on E ...
, prior to this, the stations were solely affiliates of Ion (then known as i: Independent Television and originally known as Pax TV).
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed
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:
Out-of-market cable carriage
In recent years, WPXU has been carried on
cable
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Mechanical
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* Wire rope, a type of rope that consists of several strands of metal wire laid into a hel ...
in
Carolina Beach, which is within the
Wilmington media market
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.
References
External links
Ion Television website
Ion Television affiliates
Court TV affiliates
Defy TV affiliates
Grit (TV network) affiliates
Laff (TV network) affiliates
TrueReal affiliates
Scripps News affiliates
E. W. Scripps Company television stations
Television channels and stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in North Carolina
PXU-TV
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