WFPX
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Fayetteville, North Carolina United States |
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| City | Fayetteville, North Carolina |
| Branding | ION Television |
| Slogan | Positively Entertaining |
| Channels |
Digital: 36 (UHF) Virtual: 62 () |
| Subchannels | 62.1 Ion Television 62.2 qubo 62.3 ION Life 62.4 ION Shop 62.5 QVC |
| Affiliations | Ion Television (O&O; 1998–present) |
| Owner |
Ion Media Networks, Inc. (Ion Media License Company, LLC) |
| First air date | March 1985 |
| Call letters' meaning | Fayetteville's PaX |
| Former callsigns | WFCT (1985–1993) WFAY (1993–1998) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 62 (UHF, 1985–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (1985–1994) Fox (1994–1998) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW (digital) |
| Height | 242 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 21245 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°53′5″N 79°4′29″W / 34.88472°N 79.07472°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | ION Television |
WFPX-TV is one of two Ion Television affiliates for the Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina, USA, television market, licensed to nearby Fayetteville. The station is owned by ION Media Networks (the former Paxson Communications), and is a full-time satellite of WRPX-TV in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Its transmitter is located in Lumber Bridge, North Carolina. It transmits on UHF digital channel 36, and through the use of , digital television receivers display WFPX's virtual channel as 62.1.
Channel 62 signed on in 1985 as WFCT, an independent broadcaster owned by Fayetteville/Cumberland Telecasters. Attorneys Robinson and Katherine Everett of Durham, founders of WRDU-TV (now WRDC) in Durham, along with WJKA (now WSFX-TV) in Wilmington and WGGT (now WMYV) in Greensboro, were two of the principals in this company.
The station changed call letters to WFAY in 1993 and became a Fox affiliate in 1994; the affiliation came as part of a deal that also saw the Everetts switch their CBS affiliates, WJKA and KECY-TV in El Centro, California/Yuma, Arizona to Fox. Etven though WFAY was located in the same market as WLFL (a Fox affiliate at the time), it mainly focused on communities located south of Fayetteville that did not get a good signal from WLFL. Some of its non-network programming was also simulcast to the Raleigh-Durham area on WRAY-TV for a couple of years in the mid-1990s until it was acquired by the Shop at Home network.
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