City | Martinsburg, West Virginia |
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Branding | Ion |
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WPXW-TV, WMAR-TV | |
History | |
Founded | May 21, 1990 |
First air date | October 1, 1991 |
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Call sign meaning | West Virginia's Pax; satellite of WPXW-TV |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 23264 |
ERP | 4.2 kW |
HAAT | 327.5 m (1,074 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 39°14′21″N 77°46′16″W / 39.23917°N 77.77111°W |
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Public license information | |
Website | iontelevision |
WWPX-TV (channel 60) is a television station licensed to Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the northwestern portion of the Washington, D.C., television market.[2] Owned and operated by Ion Media, the station maintains transmitter facilities on Blue Ridge Mountain east of Charles Town, West Virginia.
WWPX-TV operates as a full-time satellite of the main Ion station for the Washington area, Manassas, Virginia–licensed WPXW-TV (channel 66), whose offices are located in Fairfax Station, Virginia. WWPX covers areas of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle, northern Virginia, central Maryland and south-central Pennsylvania that receive a marginal to non-existent over-the-air signal from WPXW, although there is significant overlap between the two stations' contours otherwise. WWPX is a straight simulcast of WPXW; on-air references to WWPX are limited to Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-mandated hourly station identifications during programming. Aside from the transmitter, WWPX does not maintain any physical presence locally in Martinsburg.