WPXV
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WPXV-TV is the Ion Television owned and operated station for the Hampton Roads
area, licensed to Norfolk, Virginia
. The station is owned by ION Media Networks
, and operates on UHF
digital channel 46.
WJCB now WPXV-TV was initially owned by Tidewater Christian Communications. During its years as WJCB the station aired either religious programing and infomercials or shopping programing. In April 1997 WJCB went under new ownership when Tidewater Christian Brodcasting sold WJCB to Lockwood Broadcasting
of Hampton, Virginia
. Lockwood Broadcasting
paid Tidewater Christian Broadcasting $6.75 Million dollars to buy and own WJCB. In December 1997 WJCB went under new ownership again when Lockwood Broadcasting
sold WJCB to Paxson Communications of which is now ION Media Networks
. Paxson Communications
of which is now ION Media Networks
paid Lockwood Broadcasting
$14.75 Million dollars to buy and own WJCB thus making WJCB now WPXV-TV into a PAX Owned and Operated station.
change the WJCB calls letters from WJCB to WPXV on March 2, 1998 possibly to reflect the station's new ownership with Paxson Communications
now ION Media Networks
and the pending affiliation with the PAX Network of which the PAX Network now the ION television Network has not yet launched as an over the air broadcast television network.
Religious programing and infomercials as well as shopping programing continued to air on WPXV until August 31, 1998 when the station started airing PAX programing with infomercials and religious programing during the day with the launch of the then new PAX Network now ION Television. WPXV aired rebroadcasts of WAVY-TV
's 6 P.M. and 11 P.M. weeknight newscasts at 7 P.M. and 11:30 P.M. weeknights from 1999-2001. WPXV possibly had a Local Marketing Agreement with WAVY-TV
in airing repeats of WAVY-TV
's weeknight newscasts but, presumably ended the Local Marketing Agreement with WAVY-TV
since repeats of WAVY-TV
's weeknight newscasts left WPXV's weeknight schedule. There was no weekend repeats of WAVY-TV
's weekend evening 6 P.M. and 11 P.M. newscasts on WPXV at 7 P.M. and 11:30 P.M. on Saturday and Sunday nights. WPXV became a I Television Network owned and operated station on June 28, 2005 when the PAX Network changed its name to The I Television Network. Sometime in 2006 Paxson Communications
of which owns WPXV and the then I Television Network change its name from Paxson Communications
to the current ION Media Networks
name. On January 29, 2007 WPXV-TV became a ION Television owned and operated station after the I Television Network changed its name to the current ION Television Network name possibly in order to reflect is ownership with ION Media Networks
. WPXV call letters remains unchanged from the PAX Network era, even after the change from the PAX Network name to I Television Network and its current name to ION Television Network. On June 12, 2009 between the hours of 7 A.M. to 9 A.M in the morning WPXV had to shut down their analog transmitter broadcasting on analog channel 49 and continued to broadcast on their post digital transition channel 46 because the Federal Communications Commission mandated all full power stations nationwide or in the United States
like WPXV to broadcast only on digital transmitters and shut down their analog transmitters. Three days later on June 15, 2009 after WPXV shut down the analog transmitter of which was broadcasting on analog channel 49, changed the call letters to the WPXV-DT digital signal broadcasting on digital channel 46 from WPXV-DT to the current WPXV-TV call letters.
on its second digital subchannel as well as Ion Life
on its third digital subchannel along with its main ION Television programing on its first digital channel. There used to be The Worship Network
on WPXV-TV's fourth digital subchannel however, ION has dropped The Worship Network
on all ION
owned and operated stations on January 31, 2010 at midnight.
Hampton Roads
Hampton Roads is the name for both a body of water and the Norfolk–Virginia Beach metropolitan area which surrounds it in southeastern Virginia, United States...
area, licensed to Norfolk, Virginia
Norfolk, Virginia
Norfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. With a population of 242,803 as of the 2010 Census, it is Virginia's second-largest city behind neighboring Virginia Beach....
. The station is owned by ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks is an American television broadcasting company that owns and operates over 60 television stations in most major American markets. It is now a privately owned company.-History:...
, and operates on UHF
Ultra high frequency
Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres...
digital channel 46.
Pre-WJCB (1985-1989)
Before WJCB now WPXV-TV signed on the air on May 29, 1989, WJCB was first licensed or had a construction permit for a television station on August 9, 1985. WJCB became DWJCB on January 23, 1987 as an possible indication that the WJCB license or construction permit was going to be deleted by the Federal Communications Commission or the FCC. The Federal Communications Commission restored DWJCB back to the WJCB calls on October 6, 1987 about almost two years before WJCB signed on the air thus granting WJCB the construction permit and to broadcast as an over the air television station.WJCB (1989-1998)
WPXV-TV signed on the air on May 29, 1989 as WJCB. The former WJCB call letters stood for W Jesus Christ Broadcasting.WJCB now WPXV-TV was initially owned by Tidewater Christian Communications. During its years as WJCB the station aired either religious programing and infomercials or shopping programing. In April 1997 WJCB went under new ownership when Tidewater Christian Brodcasting sold WJCB to Lockwood Broadcasting
Lockwood Broadcasting Group
Lockwood Broadcasting Group is a television broadcasting company that owns four television stations. Three stations are CW affiliates. The third is a NBC affiliate which carries The CW and ABC on digital subchannels....
of Hampton, Virginia
Hampton, Virginia
Hampton is an independent city that is not part of any county in Southeast Virginia. Its population is 137,436. As one of the seven major cities that compose the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, it is on the southeastern end of the Virginia Peninsula. Located on the Hampton Roads Beltway, it hosts...
. Lockwood Broadcasting
Lockwood Broadcasting Group
Lockwood Broadcasting Group is a television broadcasting company that owns four television stations. Three stations are CW affiliates. The third is a NBC affiliate which carries The CW and ABC on digital subchannels....
paid Tidewater Christian Broadcasting $6.75 Million dollars to buy and own WJCB. In December 1997 WJCB went under new ownership again when Lockwood Broadcasting
Lockwood Broadcasting Group
Lockwood Broadcasting Group is a television broadcasting company that owns four television stations. Three stations are CW affiliates. The third is a NBC affiliate which carries The CW and ABC on digital subchannels....
sold WJCB to Paxson Communications of which is now ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks is an American television broadcasting company that owns and operates over 60 television stations in most major American markets. It is now a privately owned company.-History:...
. Paxson Communications
ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks is an American television broadcasting company that owns and operates over 60 television stations in most major American markets. It is now a privately owned company.-History:...
of which is now ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks is an American television broadcasting company that owns and operates over 60 television stations in most major American markets. It is now a privately owned company.-History:...
paid Lockwood Broadcasting
Lockwood Broadcasting Group
Lockwood Broadcasting Group is a television broadcasting company that owns four television stations. Three stations are CW affiliates. The third is a NBC affiliate which carries The CW and ABC on digital subchannels....
$14.75 Million dollars to buy and own WJCB thus making WJCB now WPXV-TV into a PAX Owned and Operated station.
WPXV and WPXV-TV (1998-present)
Paxson CommunicationsION Media Networks
ION Media Networks is an American television broadcasting company that owns and operates over 60 television stations in most major American markets. It is now a privately owned company.-History:...
change the WJCB calls letters from WJCB to WPXV on March 2, 1998 possibly to reflect the station's new ownership with Paxson Communications
ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks is an American television broadcasting company that owns and operates over 60 television stations in most major American markets. It is now a privately owned company.-History:...
now ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks is an American television broadcasting company that owns and operates over 60 television stations in most major American markets. It is now a privately owned company.-History:...
and the pending affiliation with the PAX Network of which the PAX Network now the ION television Network has not yet launched as an over the air broadcast television network.
Religious programing and infomercials as well as shopping programing continued to air on WPXV until August 31, 1998 when the station started airing PAX programing with infomercials and religious programing during the day with the launch of the then new PAX Network now ION Television. WPXV aired rebroadcasts of WAVY-TV
WAVY-TV
WAVY-TV, channel 10, is a television station licensed to Portsmouth, Virginia, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Hampton Roads area . WAVY is owned by LIN Television Corporation, and is a sister station to Fox affiliate WVBT...
's 6 P.M. and 11 P.M. weeknight newscasts at 7 P.M. and 11:30 P.M. weeknights from 1999-2001. WPXV possibly had a Local Marketing Agreement with WAVY-TV
WAVY-TV
WAVY-TV, channel 10, is a television station licensed to Portsmouth, Virginia, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Hampton Roads area . WAVY is owned by LIN Television Corporation, and is a sister station to Fox affiliate WVBT...
in airing repeats of WAVY-TV
WAVY-TV
WAVY-TV, channel 10, is a television station licensed to Portsmouth, Virginia, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Hampton Roads area . WAVY is owned by LIN Television Corporation, and is a sister station to Fox affiliate WVBT...
's weeknight newscasts but, presumably ended the Local Marketing Agreement with WAVY-TV
WAVY-TV
WAVY-TV, channel 10, is a television station licensed to Portsmouth, Virginia, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Hampton Roads area . WAVY is owned by LIN Television Corporation, and is a sister station to Fox affiliate WVBT...
since repeats of WAVY-TV
WAVY-TV
WAVY-TV, channel 10, is a television station licensed to Portsmouth, Virginia, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Hampton Roads area . WAVY is owned by LIN Television Corporation, and is a sister station to Fox affiliate WVBT...
's weeknight newscasts left WPXV's weeknight schedule. There was no weekend repeats of WAVY-TV
WAVY-TV
WAVY-TV, channel 10, is a television station licensed to Portsmouth, Virginia, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Hampton Roads area . WAVY is owned by LIN Television Corporation, and is a sister station to Fox affiliate WVBT...
's weekend evening 6 P.M. and 11 P.M. newscasts on WPXV at 7 P.M. and 11:30 P.M. on Saturday and Sunday nights. WPXV became a I Television Network owned and operated station on June 28, 2005 when the PAX Network changed its name to The I Television Network. Sometime in 2006 Paxson Communications
ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks is an American television broadcasting company that owns and operates over 60 television stations in most major American markets. It is now a privately owned company.-History:...
of which owns WPXV and the then I Television Network change its name from Paxson Communications
ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks is an American television broadcasting company that owns and operates over 60 television stations in most major American markets. It is now a privately owned company.-History:...
to the current ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks is an American television broadcasting company that owns and operates over 60 television stations in most major American markets. It is now a privately owned company.-History:...
name. On January 29, 2007 WPXV-TV became a ION Television owned and operated station after the I Television Network changed its name to the current ION Television Network name possibly in order to reflect is ownership with ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks is an American television broadcasting company that owns and operates over 60 television stations in most major American markets. It is now a privately owned company.-History:...
. WPXV call letters remains unchanged from the PAX Network era, even after the change from the PAX Network name to I Television Network and its current name to ION Television Network. On June 12, 2009 between the hours of 7 A.M. to 9 A.M in the morning WPXV had to shut down their analog transmitter broadcasting on analog channel 49 and continued to broadcast on their post digital transition channel 46 because the Federal Communications Commission mandated all full power stations nationwide or in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
like WPXV to broadcast only on digital transmitters and shut down their analog transmitters. Three days later on June 15, 2009 after WPXV shut down the analog transmitter of which was broadcasting on analog channel 49, changed the call letters to the WPXV-DT digital signal broadcasting on digital channel 46 from WPXV-DT to the current WPXV-TV call letters.
Subchannels
WPXV-TV broadcasts QuboQubo
Qubo is a multi-platform children's television specialty channel endeavor operated as a joint venture between ION Media Networks, NBCUniversal, Nelvana, Scholastic Corporation, and Classic Media...
on its second digital subchannel as well as Ion Life
ION Life
ION Life is a digital television network carried by ION Television affiliates, airing lifestyle programming during the day, and movies in the evening. It was launched February 19, 2007...
on its third digital subchannel along with its main ION Television programing on its first digital channel. There used to be The Worship Network
The Worship Network
The Worship Network, or Worship, is a broadcast television service that provides alternative Christian worship-themed programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week...
on WPXV-TV's fourth digital subchannel however, ION has dropped The Worship Network
The Worship Network
The Worship Network, or Worship, is a broadcast television service that provides alternative Christian worship-themed programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week...
on all ION
ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks is an American television broadcasting company that owns and operates over 60 television stations in most major American markets. It is now a privately owned company.-History:...
owned and operated stations on January 31, 2010 at midnight.
| Channel | Network |
|---|---|
| 49.1 | Main WPXV-TV programming / ION |
| 49.2 | Qubo Qubo Qubo is a multi-platform children's television specialty channel endeavor operated as a joint venture between ION Media Networks, NBCUniversal, Nelvana, Scholastic Corporation, and Classic Media... |
| 49.3 | Ion Life ION Life ION Life is a digital television network carried by ION Television affiliates, airing lifestyle programming during the day, and movies in the evening. It was launched February 19, 2007... |