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{{short description|Ion TV station in Rome, Georgia}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign
| city
| digital = 16 ([[UHF]])
▲| branding = Ion
| affiliations
| airdate
▲| virtual = 14
▲| affiliations = {{ubl|'''14.1:''' [[Ion Television]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:'''
▲| airdate = {{start date and age|1988|2|29|p=y}}<ref>The ''Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook'' says January 15, while the ''Television and Cable Factbook'' says February 29.</ref>
| owner = [[Ion Media]]
▲| location = [[Rome, Georgia|Rome]]/[[Atlanta|Atlanta, Georgia]]
▲| country = United States
| former_affiliations = {{ubl|[[Independent station|Independent]] (1988–1995)|inTV (1995–1998)}}
▲| callsign_meaning = Pax TV Atlanta
| erp = 687 [[kW]]
▲| former_callsigns = {{ubl|WAWA-TV (1988–1990)|WTLK-TV (1990–1998)}}
▲| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:'''|14 (UHF, 1988–2009)|'''Digital:'''|51 (UHF, 2002–2015)|31 (UHF, 2015–2019)}}
| coordinates
▲| licensee = Ion Television License, [[Limited liability company|LLC]]
▲| haat = {{convert|596|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
▲| facility_id = 51969
▲| coordinates = {{nowrap|{{Coord|34|18|48|N|84|38|55|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline, title}}}}
▲| licensing_authority = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
▲| website = {{URL|https://iontelevision.com/}}
}}
'''WPXA-TV''' (channel 14) is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Rome, Georgia]], United States, broadcasting the [[Ion Television]] network to the [[Atlanta]] area. The station is [[
The station's broadcast range extends into parts of [[Alabama]] and [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]], and even the southwest corner of [[North Carolina]]. However, [[terrain shielding]] not accounted for in [[radio propagation]] [[computer modeling|model]]s prevents this from regularly occurring, due to the [[north Georgia mountains]].
==History==
The station was issued a [[construction permit]] in 1984 on Channel 14 as
In 1990, the station changed its calls to
In 1996, the station was sold to Paxson Communications. The must-carry rules for cable systems took effect about the same time. WTLK, WNGM and [[WATC (TV)|WATC]] would be added to most metro cable systems immediately. The station's format consisted of infomercials by day and the [[Worship Network]] at night. Pax TV was launched in 1998 and WTLK became WPXA as a charter [[Network affiliate|affiliate]]. Pax TV later became i: Independent Television and is now Ion Television. During the Pax era, WPXA aired a late-night replay of WXIA's 11 p.m. newscast. Most Pax stations had similar arrangements with the NBC affiliates in their markets.
The station's [[
Rome also had a previous full-power TV station, WROM-TV (channel 9), from 1953 to 1957. This station later moved to Chattanooga and became what is now [[
==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The station's
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The station had selected 14 as its permanent digital channel in the [[digital channel election]], but had to remain on 51 due to a [[co-channel]] [[RF interference]] conflict.<ref>[http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1041554 FCC application BFRECT-20050210ADZ]</ref>
In August 2013, the station contracted with local [[Telemundo]] affiliate WKTB-CD (channel 47) to provide a full-market signal for the low-power station, along with probable [[retransmission consent]] to fold it in with WPXA's negotiations. This precluded WPXA from Ion's agreement to carry the over-the-air signal of [[
On July 6, 2015, WPXA-TV was licensed by the FCC to shift their digital signal from channel 51 to channel 31 to allow [[T-Mobile US|T-Mobile]] to use the adjacent channel 52 frequency for [[LTE (telecommunication)|LTE]] data and voice services without interference, requiring a tuner re-scan for viewers to continue to receive the station
In September 2019, WPXA-TV moved from physical channel 31 (583.31{{nbsp}}MHz) to 16 (493.31{{nbsp}}MHz) as a result of the [[spectrum reallocation#broadcast incentive auction|spectrum incentive auction]], which revoked channels 38 to 51 from the UHF TV [[bandplan]], repacking those stations into channels 2 to 36 and forcing some stations already in the lower band to move around to accommodate them. This change was expected to occur by 12 a.m. on September 6, which was [[ATSC tuner]] "rescan day" for most stations in the Atlanta [[media market]]. However for WPXA this was delayed to the 11th for unknown reasons, in turn preventing [[WPCH-TV]] 17.''x'' from changing from RF channel 20 to 31 until then.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WSB|title=RabbitEars.Info}}</ref>
==Notes==
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==References==
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