KGPX

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KGPX
Spokane, Washington
Branding	ION Television
Channels	Analog: 34 (UHF)
Affiliations	ION Television
Owner	ION Media Networks, Inc. (Paxson Spokane License, Inc.)
First air date	August 1, 1999
Call letters’ meaning	PaX TV
Former affiliations	Pax TV (1999-2005) i (2005-2007)
Transmitter Power	2820 kW
Height	450 m
Facility ID	81694
Transmitter Coordinates	47°36′8″N, 117°17′55″W
Website	www.ionline.tv

KGPX is an ION Television network television station in Spokane, Washington, owned and operated by ION Media Networks (the former Paxson Communications). It broadcasts on channel 34 (analog) from a transmitter atop Browne Mountain southeast of Spokane. The station received no separate digital channel allotment.

The station's current programming consists of the ION national feed including religious programs, plus paid infomercials and local advertising spots. The network programing on Friday includes. qubo in the afternoon and ION Life in the early evenings.

Contents 1 History 2 Digital television 3 Other channel 34 stations in Spokane 4 External links

[edit] History

On April 2, 1998, the FCC granted an original construction permit to Paxson Communications for a full-service television station serving Spokane. On May 15, 1998 the FCC issued the call letters KBEU. It was the fourth television station granted such a permit on channel 34 since 1984. The previous station, low-power K34DU, reportedly signed on in 1997 and is mistakenly thought to have been the same station as KGPX.

Two months after the original construction permit was granted, the station changed its call letters June 12, 1998 to KGPX to reflect the new Pax network, of which the station was to be a part. KGPX signed on the air August 1, 1999. KGPX's license was issued on June 30, 2000.

[edit] Digital television

Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997 [1], the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, on or before February 17, 2009, which is the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KGPX will be required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (called a "flash-cut").

KGPX twice attempted to secure a companion digital allocation on channel 43 through a complex Negotiated Channel Election Arrangement with 19 other stations in Washington, Idaho and Oregon, but was denied by the FCC due to interference issues. [2]

[edit] Other channel 34 stations in Spokane

KGPX was the fourth television station to be granted an original construction permit on channel 34 in Spokane, Washington.

• KSMW, owned by Matlock Communications, Inc., was granted an original construction permit on April 9, 1984, to expire in 18 months. Matlock Communications did not build the station in the time allotted and was denied an extension of the permit.
• KRSK, owned by Robin C. Brandt, was granted an original construction permit on September 14, 1987, to expire December 1, 1989. Brandt also filed for an extension of the permit, but it was returned, and the original permit was allowed to expire.
• K34DU, owned by Browne Mountain Television, was awarded an original construction permit on June 1, 1992, besting three competitors. They were unable to construct the station in the time allotted and were granted five extensions of the construction permit. They are reported to have actually gone on the air in 1997, but in June 1998, with KGPX having been granted a construction permit for a full-service station on channel 34, K34DU applied for and was granted displacement relief, to move to channel 42. The application was dismissed in October 1999 and the station was never licensed.

[edit] External links

• ION Television website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KGPX
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KGPX-TV

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Spokane / Coeur d'Alene market  (Nielsen DMA #77) KREM 2 (CBS) - KXLY 4 (ABC, KXMN-LP on DT2) - KHQ 6 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2) - KSPS 7 (PBS) - KXMN-LP 11 (MNTV) - KSKN 22 (The CW) - KCDT 26 (PBS) - KAYU 28 (Fox) - K32GS 32 / K53FF 53 (TBN) - KGPX 34 (ION) - KHBA-LP 39 (3ABN) - K43GZ 43 (ind.) - KQUP-LP 47 (RTN) - KTYJ 58 (A1)  Lewiston / Clarkston / Pullman / Moscow: (Quad Cities) KLEW 3 (CBS) - KWSU 10 (PBS, Research Ch. on DT2) - KUID 12 (PBS) - K15CH 15 (PBS) - K21CC 21 (CBS) - KQUP 24 (RTN)  - KIDQ-LP 27 (JCTV/A1) - K35BW 35 (NBC) - K40EE 40 / K45FZ 45 (ABC) - K46HV 46 (TBN) - K47BW 47 (Fox) - K51HY 51 (PBS) - K53GN 53 (PBS)

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