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City | Rocky Mount, North Carolina |
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Branding | Ion |
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WFPX-TV | |
History | |
Founded | March 26, 1991 |
First air date | July 8, 1992 |
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Independent (1992–1998) | |
Call sign meaning | Raleigh's Pax TV |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 20590 |
ERP | 170 kW[3] |
HAAT | 563.8 m (1,850 ft)[3] |
Transmitter coordinates | 35°49′52.8″N 78°8′42.8″W / 35.831333°N 78.145222°W[3] |
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Website | iontelevision |
WRPX-TV (channel 47) is a television station licensed to Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Research Triangle region. It is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company alongside Archer Lodge–licensed Scripps News outlet WFPX-TV (channel 62). WRPX-TV and WFPX-TV share a sales office on Gresham Lake Road in Raleigh; through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WRPX-TV's spectrum from a tower northeast of Middlesex, North Carolina.
WRPX's signal was previously relayed on WFPX; WRPX served the northern half of the market, including Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, while WFPX served the southern part, including Fayetteville and Southern Pines.