Branding ION Television | ||
Slogan Positively Entertaining Subchannels 54.1 Ion Television54.2 Qubo54.3 ION Life54.4 Ion Shop54.5 QVC54.6 HSN Owner Ion Media Networks, Inc.(Ion Media Knoxville License, Inc.) | ||
WPXK-TV is an Ion Television network affiliate serving the Knoxville, Tennessee market, licensed in the town of Jellico near the Kentucky state line. WPXK's transmitter is located atop Sharp's Ridge in North Knoxville, on a tower shared with ABC affiliate WATE-TV. It is currently the only owned-and-operated commercial television station in the Knoxville market.
Analog-to-digital conversion
WPXK-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 54, 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 23. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 54, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.