WRPX-TV (channel 47) is a

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licensed to

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, United States, broadcasting the

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network to the

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region. It is owned and operated by the

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subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company alongside Archer Lodge–licensed

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outlet

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(channel 62). WRPX-TV and WFPX-TV share a sales office on Gresham Lake Road in

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; through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WRPX-TV's spectrum from a tower northeast of

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. WRPX's signal was previously relayed on WFPX; WRPX served the northern half of the

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, including Raleigh,

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and

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, while WFPX served the southern part, including Fayetteville and Southern Pines.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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Analog-to-digital conversion

WRPX-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over

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channel 47, at noon 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 continued to broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 15. Through the use of

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, digital television receivers display the station's

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as its former UHF analog channel 47.

Spectrum repack

WRPX-TV moved from channel 15 to channel 32 on September 11, 2019.

Out-of-market coverage

In recent years, WRPX-TV has been carried on

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in multiple areas within the Greenville and Wilmington

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References

External links

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