WRPX-TV (channel 47) is a television station licensed to Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Research Triangle region. It is owned by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company alongside Bounce TV outlet WFPX-TV (channel 62). WRPX-TV and WFPX-TV share a sales office on Gresham Lake Road in Raleigh; through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WRPX-TV's spectrum from a tower northeast of Middlesex, North Carolina.
WRPX's signal was previously relayed on WFPX; WRPX served the northern half of the market, including Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, while WFPX served the southern part, including Fayetteville and Southern Pines.
Technical information Subchannels
+Subchannels of WRPX-TV and WFPX-TV License Subchannel Short name Programming WRPX-TV 47.1 720p ION Ion Television 47.2 480i CourtTV Court TV 47.3 IONPlus Ion Plus 47.4 GameSho Game Show Central 47.5 CRIME True Crime Network 47.6 BUSTED Busted 47.8 QVC QVC WFPX-TV 62.1 720p Bounce Bounce TV
Analog-to-digital conversion WRPX-TV ended regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 47, at noon on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 15, using virtual channel 47.
Spectrum repack WRPX-TV moved from channel 15 to channel 32 on September 11, 2019.
Out-of-market coverage In recent years, WRPX-TV has been carried on cable in multiple areas within the Greenville and Wilmington media markets.
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