KPXL-TV
Uvalde/San Antonio, Texas United States | |
---|---|
City | Uvalde, Texas |
Branding | Ion Television |
Slogan | Positively Entertaining |
Channels |
Digital: 26 (UHF) Virtual: 26 (PSIP) |
Subchannels |
26.1 - Ion HD (720p) 26.2 - qubo (480i) 26.3 - Ion Life (480i) 26.4 - Ion Shop (480i) 26.5 - QVC (480i) 26.6 - HSN (480i) |
Affiliations | Ion Television |
Owner |
Ion Media Networks (Ion Media San Antonio License, Inc.) |
First air date | February 19, 1999 |
Call letters' meaning |
PaX TV L = meaning unknown (maybe UvaLde?) |
Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 26 (UHF, 1999–2009) |
Former affiliations |
Pax TV (1999–2005) i (2005–2007) |
Transmitter power | 228 kW |
Height | 521 m |
Facility ID | 61173 |
Transmitter coordinates | 29°37′11″N 99°2′55.0″W / 29.61972°N 99.048611°W |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
Website | www.iontelevision.com |
KPXL-TV, virtual and UHF channel 26, is an Ion Television owned-and-operated television station serving San Antonio, Texas, United States that is licensed to Uvalde. The station is owned by Ion Media Networks. KPXL-TV maintains offices located on Bandera Road (between Loop 410 and Highway 16) in northwest San Antonio, and its transmitter is located off Highway 173/RM Road 689 on the Medina-Bandera County line (west-northwest of Lakehills).
The station first signed on the air on February 19, 1999; KPXL was built and signed on by Paxson Communications (the forerunner to Ion Media Networks) as an owned-and-operated station of Ion Television predecessor Pax TV.
Digital television[1]
Digital channels
Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Network |
---|---|---|---|---|
26.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ION | Ion Television |
26.2 | 480i | 4:3 | qubo | Qubo |
26.3 | IONLife | Ion Life | ||
26.4 | Shop | Ion Shop | ||
26.5 | QVC | QVC | ||
26.6 | HSN | HSN |
Analog-to-digital conversion
Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997 , the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. KPXL-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 26, on June 12, 2009. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 26.[2]
References
- ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KPXL
- ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.
External links
- Ion Television official website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KPXL
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KPXL-TV