KKPX
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San Jose/San Francisco/ Oakland, California United States |
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| Branding | Ion Television |
| Slogan | Positively Entertaining |
| Channels |
Digital: 41 (UHF) Virtual: 65 () |
| Subchannels | 65.1 - Ion HD (720p) 65.2 - qubo (480i) 65.3 - Ion Life (480i) 65.4 - Ion Shop (480i) 65.5 - QVC 65.6 - HSN |
| Affiliations | Ion Television |
| Owner |
Ion Media Networks (Ion Media San Jose License, Inc.) |
| First air date | November 15, 1986 |
| Call letters' meaning | KK PaX(son) |
| Former callsigns | KLXV-TV (1986–1997) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 65 (UHF, 1986–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
TBN (1986–1995) inTV (1995–1998) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 418 m |
| Facility ID | 22644 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°41′15″N 122°26′1″W / 37.68750°N 122.43361°WCoordinates: 37°41′15″N 122°26′1″W / 37.68750°N 122.43361°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.iontelevision.com |
KKPX-TV, virtual channel 65 (UHF digital channel 41), is an Ion Television owned-and-operated station serving the San Francisco Bay Area that is licensed to San Jose, California, United States. The station is owned by Ion Media Networks. KKPX maintains offices located on Price Avenue in Redwood City, and its transmitter is located atop San Bruno Mountain.
The station first signed on the air on November 15, 1986 as KLXV-TV (the last three letters of the callsign representing the Roman numeral for 65) and was an affiliate of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. In 1995, the station became an affiliate of the infomercial service InTV. In August 1997, the station's call letters were changed to KKPX after Paxson Communications (now Ion Media Networks) bought the station. KKPX became a charter owned-and-operated station of Pax TV (the predecessor of Ion Television, to which the network was renamed in 2007) on August 31, 1998.
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
KKPX-TV had plans for a Mobile DTV feed of subchannel 65.1. A Mobile DTV feed did later launch, but it carries programming from 65.2 (Qubo).
KKPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 65, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 41, using to display KKPX-TV's virtual channel as 65 on digital television receivers, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.
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