Branding ION Television | Affiliations Ion Television | |
Slogan Positively Entertaining Channels Digital: 15 (UHF)
Virtual: 56 (PSIP) Subchannels 56.1 Ion TV
56.2 qubo
56.3 Ion Life
56.4 Shop TV
56.5 QVC
56.6 HSN Owner Ion Media Networks, Inc.
(Ion Media Syracuse License, Inc.) | ||
WSPX-TV, Ion Television in Syracuse, New York, is owned by ION Media Networks.
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WSPX-TV broadcasts on digital channel 15. The channel 15 frequency is short-spaced to Belleville, Ontario's CBLFT and was approved on the condition that effective radiated power of the US station not exceed 100kW.
According to WSPX-TV, an early reduction in analogue power and start of digital operation needed to take place months in advance of the February 17, 2009 FCC digital transition deadline to ensure that channel 15's antenna could be installed on the top of the tower in place of the existing channel 56 antenna before the onset of winter. UHF 56 was then left operational from a secondary, side-mounted antenna at a 25% reduction in coverage area until analogue shut-off.
As of November 2013, WSPX-TV features ION, Qubo, ION Life, ION Shop (Informercials, QVC, and HSN programming.
WSPX-TV has been operating since November 24, 1998.
Digital television
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
WSPX-TV started broadcasting high definition in mid May 2010.
Analog-to-digital conversion
WSPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 56, 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 15. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 56, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.