WPXE
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Kenosha/Milwaukee, Wisconsin United States |
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| City | Kenosha, Wisconsin |
| Branding | Ion Television |
| Slogan | Positively Entertaining |
| Channels |
Digital: 40 (UHF) Virtual: 55 () |
| Subchannels | 55.1 - Ion HD (720p) 55.2 - qubo (480i) 55.3 - Ion Life (480i) 55.4 - Ion Shop (480i) 55.5 - QVC 55.6 - HSN |
| Affiliations | Ion Television |
| Owner | Ion Media Networks |
| First air date | June 1, 1988 |
| Call letters' meaning | PaX MilwaukEe |
| Sister station(s) | WTPX-TV |
| Former callsigns | WHKE (1988–1998) |
| Former affiliations |
LeSEA (1988–1995) inTV (1995–1998) |
| Transmitter power | 830 kW |
| Height | 358 m |
| Facility ID | 37104 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°5′45.7″N 87°54′15.3″W / 43.096028°N 87.904250°WCoordinates: 43°5′45.7″N 87°54′15.3″W / 43.096028°N 87.904250°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | iontelevision.com |
WPXE-TV, virtual channel 55 (UHF digital channel 40), is an Ion Television owned-and-operated station television station serving Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States that is licensed to Kenosha (30 miles (48 km) south of Milwaukee). The station is owned by Ion Media Networks. WPXE maintains offices located on North Flint Road, straddling the city line between Milwaukee and Glendale; its transmitter is situated within the traditional tower farm site on Milwaukee's Estabrook Park neighborhood with the antenna located on the Milwaukee PBS tower. WPXE's facilities also serve as the main studio for FCC purposes for Antigo-based WTPX-TV, which serves the Wausau market and is the only other presence of Ion in the state of Wisconsin.
The station first signed on the air on June 1, 1988 as WHKE (for World Harvest Kenosha Evangelism), operating as a religious station; it was originally owned by LeSEA Broadcasting. The station's original transmitter was located in Kenosha, just north of the Illinois/Wisconsin state line (the tower is remains in use for the transmitter of radio station WWDV, 96.9 FM). Paxson Communications (now Ion Media Networks) purchased the station in 1995 and turned it into an all-infomercial format as part of the Infomail TV Network (inTV), though it also aired the daily greyhound racing recap program from Kenosha's Dairyland Greyhound Park for many years after WVTV (channel 18) stopped carrying that show in 1996, which met the station's local programming requirements.
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