Branding ION Television | ||
Slogan Positively Entertaining Subchannels 28.1 Ion Television28.2 Qubo28.3 ION Life28.4 Ion Shop28.5 QVC28.6 HSN Owner Ion Media Networks, Inc.(Ion Media License Company, LLC) | ||
WNPX-TV is a U.S. television station licensed to Cookeville, Tennessee, which broadcasts on channel 28 (digital 36). It is owned and operated by ION Media Networks. WNPX's transmitter is located at Whites Creek, Tennessee, 7 miles (11 km) north of Nashville. WNPX is affiliated with the Ion Television network. The callsign is derived from "Nashville PaX," in reference to a former name for Ion Television. Because the Bowling Green, Kentucky market does not have an ION Television affiliate of its own, WNPX also serves the Bowling Green area by default.
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History
The station was signed on by Dove Broadcasting on January 23, 1989 as WMTT, an independent station serving Cookeville. A few months later, Dove sold the station to Steven J. Sweeney. InaVision Broadcasting bought WMTT in 1993, changed its call sign to WKZX in 1994, and affiliated the station with the WB Television Network in 1995. Also in 1995, WKZX launched a nightly 6:30 p.m. newscast (which was repeated at 10 p.m.) branded as News 28. In 1997, InaVision Broadcasting sold the station to St. Louis, Missouri-based Roberts Broadcasting. A year later, Roberts Broadcasting sold the station to Paxson Communications (now Ion Media Networks), who closed WKZX's news operation, moved and upgraded its transmitter to begin focusing on the Nashville market, and changed the callsign to WNPX; on August 31, 1998, the station began broadcasting programming from Pax, the forerunner of Ion Television.
Until 2015, the station also utilized a translator on WNPX-LP channel 20, also located at Whites Creek. The translator was sold to Daystar on March 26, 2015.
Digital television
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
WNPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 28, 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 remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 36. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 28.