KOPX-TV (channel 62) is a

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, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with

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. Owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings, the station maintains offices on Railway Drive in north Oklahoma City, and its transmitter is located near 122nd Street on the city's northeast side.

History

The station first signed on the air on March 16, 1996, as KMNZ; it was originally an affiliate of the Infomall TV Network (inTV), a service operated by Paxson Communications that specialized in

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. On August 31, 1998, KOPX became a charter station of the family-oriented Pax TV network (later reformatted into a general entertainment service as i: Independent Television, now Ion Television), with

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from The Worship Network airing during the overnight hours.

Newscasts

In November 2002, in relation to agreements between Pax TV and several major network affiliates (most of which were affiliated with

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, which held a minority interest in Pax), KOPX began airing tape delayed rebroadcasts of morning and late evening newscasts from NBC affiliate

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(channel 4). The 6 a.m. hour of the morning newscast aired on a one-hour tape delay (at 7 a.m.), while the 10 p.m. newscast aired on a half-hour delay (at 10:30 p.m.), with the latter beginning shortly before the live 10 p.m. newscast on KFOR-TV ended. The news share agreement ended on June 30, 2005 (coinciding with Pax's rebranding as i: Independent Television), due to Paxson Communications' decision to discontinue carriage of network affiliate newscasts as a result of Pax's financial troubles.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

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Analog-to-digital conversion

KOPX-TV began transmitting a

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signal on UHF channel 50 on November 1, 2002. The station ended regular programming on its analog signal, over

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channel 62, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.List of Digital Full-Power Stations
The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 50, using

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62. As a part of the repacking process following the 2016–2017 FCC incentive auction, KOPX-TV relocated to UHF channel 18 in 2019.

References

External links

Ion Television official website
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