City Newton, Iowa Affiliations Ion Television | Branding Ion Television | |
Slogan Positively Entertaining Channels Digital: 39 (UHF)
Virtual: 39 (PSIP) Subchannels 39.1 Ion Television
39.2 Qubo
39.3 ION Life
39.4 Ion Shop
39.5 QVC
39.6 HSN | ||
KFPX-TV, channel 39, is a television station licensed to Newton, Iowa, and serving the Des Moines-Ames market. It is owned and operated by Ion Media Networks. It runs programming from the Ion Television network. The station operates with 4470 kW of power.
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For a short time in 2001, KFPX ran a prime-time newscast produced by WHO-TV to compete with KDSM-TV's Fox News At Nine (which WHO eventually took over from KGAN in Cedar Rapids). After that newscast was cancelled, KFPX reran WHO-TV's 10:00 p.m. newscasts on a 30-minute delay until early 2005.
Digital television
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KFPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 39, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 39.