Branding Ion Television | Affiliations Ion Television | |
Slogan Positively Entertaining Channels Digital: 48 (UHF)
Virtual: 29 (PSIP) Subchannels 29.1 - Ion HD (720p)
29.2 - qubo (480i)
29.3 - Ion Life (480i)
29.4 - Ion Shop (480i)
29.5 - QVC
29.6 - HSN
33.2 - KCSO-LD / Telemundo Owner Ion Media Networks
(Ion Media Sacramento License, Inc.) | ||
KSPX, virtual channel 29 (UHF channel 48, is an Ion Television owned-and-operated television station located in Sacramento, California, United States. The station is owned by Ion Media Networks. KSPX maintains offices located at 3252 Mather Field Road in Rancho Cordova, and its transmitter is located in Walnut Grove.
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History
The station first signed on the air on August 27, 1990 as KCMY; it originally operated as an independent station with a general entertainment format. Paxson Communications (the forerunner to Ion Media Networks) purchased the station in 1998, changing its call sign to KSPX. The station became a charter owned-and-operated station of its new Pax TV network (later i: Independent Television and now Ion Television) on August 31, 1998.
In 2014, KSPX began simulcasting KCSO-LD on digital subchannel 33.2.
Digital television
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
In addition, KSPX simulcasts KCSO-LD on one of its subchannels.
Analog-to-digital conversion
KSPX shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 29, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 48, using PSIP to display KSPX-TV's virtual channel as 29 on digital television receivers.