WRPX-TV
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Rocky Mount/Raleigh, North Carolina United States |
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| Branding | ION Television |
| Slogan | Positively Entertaining |
| Channels |
Digital: 15 (UHF) Virtual: 47 () |
| Subchannels | 47.1 Ion Television 47.2 Qubo 47.3 ION Life 47.4 Ion Shop 47.5 QVC 47.6 HSN |
| Affiliations | Ion Television (O&O; 1998–present) |
| Owner |
Ion Media Networks, Inc. (Ion Media Raleigh License, Inc.) |
| First air date | 1992 |
| Call letters' meaning | Raleigh's PaX TV |
| Former callsigns | WRMY (1992–1998) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 47 (UHF, 1992–2009) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1992–1998) |
| Transmitter power | 180 kW (digital) |
| Height | 354 m |
| Facility ID | 20590 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°6′11″N 78°11′29″W / 36.10306°N 78.19139°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | ION Television |
WRPX-TV is one of two Ion Television affiliates for the Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina television market, licensed to nearby Rocky Mount. The station is owned by ion Media Networks (the former Paxson Communications), and is a sister station to WFPX.
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
WRPX-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF 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 , digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 47. In recent years, WRPX-TV has been carried on cable in Oak City, which is within the Greenville media market.
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