WTPX-TV (channel 46) is a
television station
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licensed to
Antigo, Wisconsin
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, United States, broadcasting the
Ion Television
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network to the
Wausau–
Rhinelander market
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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 transmitter facilities near
Glandon, Wisconsin.
Until 2021, the station's
public file
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was maintained at studios on North Flint Road in
Glendale, where
WPXE-TV
WPXE-TV (channel 55) is a television station licensed to Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Milwaukee area. It is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company alongs ...
, the Ion station in the
Milwaukee
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market, was based. In October of that year with the 2019 repeal of the
Federal Communications Commission
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(FCC)'s Main Studio Rule, Ion Media officially registered its studio facility (along with most Ion-owned stations) as the
Scripps Center in
Cincinnati
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. The same month,
Green Bay sister station
WGBA-TV
WGBA-TV (channel 26) is a television station in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside Appleton-licensed independent station WACY-TV (channel 32). Both stations share studi ...
launched Ion as its fifth subchannel, with the affiliation moving from
WBAY-TV
WBAY-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Gray Television. The station's studios are located on South Jefferson Street in downtown Green Bay (across from the historic ...
.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed
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; PSIP is subject to verification:
Paxson Communications/Ion Media chose to run WTPX-TV as a digital-only station upon signing on in 2001, and held no analog license for the station. Thus, WTPX-TV never had any digital transition channel,
flash-cut or analog transition period. It moved from its original physical channel 46 to channel 19 during the FCC's spectrum repack in June 2018, but continues to use channel 46 as its
virtual channel
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position.
External links
Ion Television affiliates
Grit (TV network) affiliates
Ion Mystery affiliates
Laff (TV network) affiliates
Bounce TV affiliates
Defy TV affiliates
Scripps News affiliates
E. W. Scripps Company television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2001
2001 establishments in Wisconsin
TPX-TV
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