WIPX-TV

"WIPX" redirects here. For information on WIPX-LD in Indianapolis, see List of Daystar Television Network stations. Not to be confused with WPIX.

WIPX-TV
Channels
BrandingIon Television
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
  • Inyo Broadcast Holdings
  • (Inyo Broadcast Licenses LLC)
WCLJ-TV
History
First air date
December 27, 1988 (35 years ago) (1988-12-27)
Former call signs
WIIB (1988–1998)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 63 (UHF, 1988–2009)
  • Digital: 27 (UHF, until 2019)
  • HSN (1988–1995)
  • inTV (1995–1998)
Call sign meaning
Indianapolis Pax
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID10253
ERP175 kW
HAAT310.7 m (1,019 ft)
Transmitter coordinates39°24′12″N 86°8′50″W / 39.40333°N 86.14722°W / 39.40333; -86.14722
Links
Public license information
Websiteiontelevision.com

WIPX-TV (channel 63) is a television station licensed to Bloomington, Indiana, United States, serving the Indianapolis area as an affiliate of Ion Television. It is owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings alongside Scripps News affiliate WCLJ-TV (channel 42, also licensed to Bloomington). WIPX-TV and WCLJ-TV share offices on Production Drive (near I-465) in southwestern Indianapolis; through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WIPX-TV's spectrum from an antenna on SR 252 in Trafalgar, Indiana.[1]

Channel 63 went on air at the end of 1988 as WIIB, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group and broadcasting Home Shopping Network programming. It dropped HSN for Infomall TV (inTV) at the start of 1996. Sinclair sold controlling interest to a related entity in 1996; the station was then sold to an affiliate of Paxson Communications Corporation in 1998, coinciding with the launch of the Pax network, forerunner to Ion. Inyo Broadcast Holdings acquired WIPX-TV and WCLJ-TV in 2020 as part of the acquisition of Ion by the E. W. Scripps Company.

  1. ^ a b "Modification of a Licensed Facility for DTV Application". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. Archived from the original on January 20, 2018. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
  2. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WIPX-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.