WEPX-TV (channel 38) are WPXU-TV (channel 35) are

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s licensed respectively to Greenville and

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, United States, broadcasting the

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network to

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. The stations are

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by the

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subsidiary of the

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. WEPX-TV's transmitter is located northwest of

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, while WPXU's tower is near Holly Ridge. WPXU operates as a full-time

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of WEPX-TV; its existence is only acknowledged in

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s. Aside from the transmitter, WPXU does not maintain any physical presence locally in Jacksonville. WEPX and WPXU were affiliates of

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from September 5, 2006, until September 27, 2009, when MyNetworkTV's affiliation switched over to

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; prior to this, the stations were solely affiliates of Ion (then known as i: Independent Television and originally known as Pax TV).

Technical information

Subchannels

The stations' signals are

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Analog-to-digital conversion

Because it was granted an original

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after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, WEPX-TV did not initially receive a companion channel for a digital

. WEPX was later assigned channel 51, and the digital signal signed on February 5, 2008. WEPX has filed a letter with the FCC requesting to move from channel 51 to channel 26. This was part of a larger move for the FCC to get TV stations off channel 51 to prevent interference with cell phone devices.

Out-of-market cable carriage

In recent years, WPXU has been carried on

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in Carolina Beach, which is within the Wilmington

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References

External links

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