KWPX-TV (channel 33) is a

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licensed to Bellevue, Washington, United States, serving as the Ion Television outlet for the

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– Tacoma area. The station is

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by the

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subsidiary of the

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. KWPX-TV's offices are located on 304th Avenue Southeast in

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, and its transmitter is located on West Tiger Mountain near Issaquah.

History

The station signed on the air as KBGE on May 17, 1989. Its original transmitter site was atop Columbia Center; the transmitter was later moved to West Tiger Mountain. The call letters became KWPX-TV on March 9, 1998, after the station was purchased by Paxson Communications, replacing

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with its inTV network until the launch of Pax on August 31, 1998. The station was never a part of the early-2000s initiative by NBC to rebroadcast local newscasts a half-hour later on a Pax station, as

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already featured newscasts on sister station

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. Until 2021, the station carried

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on its seventh subchannel, before Scripps' purchase of Ion Media nullified the agreement, in order to carry their own subchannel networks. Cox-owned

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relaunched the network in the market in the fall of 2022 over subchannel 7.4.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion

KWPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over

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channel 33, on February 17, 2009, to conclude the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.List of Digital Full-Power Stations
The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 32 to channel 33.CDBS Print
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* WPX-TV Ion Television affiliates Court TV affiliates Bounce TV affiliates Grit (TV network) affiliates Defy TV affiliates Scripps News affiliates E. W. Scripps Company television stations 1989 establishments in Washington (state) Television channels and stations established in 1989 {{Washington-tv-station-stub