KUPX
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Provo/Salt Lake City, Utah United States |
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| City | Provo, Utah |
| Branding | Ion Television |
| Slogan | Positively Entertaining |
| Channels |
Digital: 29 (UHF) Virtual: 16 () |
| Subchannels | 16.1 - Ion HD (720p) 16.2 - qubo (480i) 16.3 - Ion Life (480i) 16.4 - Ion Shop (480i) 16.5 - Home Shopping Network 16.6 - QVC |
| Translators | K27IN-D Malad City, Idaho |
| Affiliations | Ion Television |
| Owner |
Ion Media Networks (Ion Media Salt Lake City License, Inc.) |
| First air date | April 21, 1998 |
| Call letters' meaning | Utah PaX TV |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 16 (UHF, 1998–2009) |
| Former affiliations | inTV (April–August 1998) |
| Transmitter power | 530 kW |
| Height | 1171 m |
| Facility ID | 57884 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°39′12″N 112°12′6″W / 40.65333°N 112.20167°WCoordinates: 40°39′12″N 112°12′6″W / 40.65333°N 112.20167°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | iontelevision.com |
KUPX-TV, virtual channel 16 (UHF digital channel 29), is an Ion Television owned-and-operated television station serving Salt Lake City, Utah, United States that is licensed to Provo. The station is owned by Ion Media Networks. KUPX maintains offices located on Lawndale Drive in the southern section of Salt Lake City, and its transmitter located on Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City. The station's signal is rebroadcast on low-power translator station K27IN-D (channel 27) in Malad City, Idaho.
There are two methods of accounting the station's history: by license and by "intellectual unit", which is the combination of a station's call letters, programming, network affiliation and staff. As the result of two local marketing agreements that began in 1998, which launched a process that culminated in a station swap in 1999, the KUPX license history differs from the intellectual unit history prior to April 21, 1998.
On April 24, 1985, the Federal Communications Commission granted an original construction permit to build a full-power television station on UHF channel 16 to serve Provo and the Salt Lake City television market. The new station, originally owned by Morro Rock Resources, Inc., was given the call letters KZAR-TV, it was then sold to Royal Television of Utah, Inc. in October 1985. Royal Television had considerable difficulty in constructing the station, as evidenced by several applications to change transmitter location and several construction permit extensions, and even replacements of expired construction permits. In 1988, the station’s callsign was deleted, then restored four months later. In July 1990, Royal Television applied to replace the construction permit that was to expire the following month. The application was not granted until February 1996, more than five years later. In September 1995, Roberts Broadcasting agreed to buy the station from Royal Broadcasting, and the deal was consummated in May 1996. In February 1996, the same day that the FCC approved the sale of the station from Royal Television to Roberts Broadcasting, Paxson Communications (the forerunner to Ion Media Networks) sent a proposal to Roberts to acquire a 50% share in the station. The proposal was unsuccessful.
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