KKPX-TV


KKPX-TV, virtual channel 65, is an Ion Television owned-and-operated station licensed to San Jose, California, United States and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The station is owned by West Palm Beach, Florida-based Ion Media Networks. KKPX-TV's offices are located on Price Avenue in Redwood City, and its transmitter is located atop San Bruno Mountain.

History

The station first signed on the air on November 15, 1986 as KLXV-TV and was an affiliate of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. In 1995, the station became an affiliate of the infomercial service InTV. In August 1997, the station's call letters were changed to KKPX after Paxson Communications bought the station. KKPX became a charter owned-and-operated station of Pax TV on August 31, 1998.

Digital television

KKPX-TV had plans for a Mobile DTV feed of subchannel 65.1. A Mobile DTV feed did later launch, but it carries programming from 65.2.

Analog-to-digital conversion

KKPX-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 65, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 41, using PSIP to display KKPX-TV's virtual channel as 65 on digital television receivers, which was among the high band UHF channels that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

Newscasts

From 2000 to 2005, KKPX aired rebroadcasts of KNTV 's 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts at 7 and 11:30 p.m. each weeknight. The newscasts were originally branded as NewsChannel 11 on Pax when KNTV was affiliated with The WB; after KNTV joined NBC in January 2002, the newscasts were first renamed to NBC 3 News on Pax, then to NBC 11 News on Pax several months later, after KNTV stopped branding by its common channel number on Bay Area cable systems. Like most other such arrangements involving Pax stations and major network affiliates, the simulcasts were dropped on June 30, 2005.