WRPX-TV


WRPX-TV, virtual channel 47, is an Ion Television owned-and-operated station licensed to Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States and serving the Triangle region. The station is owned by West Palm Beach, Florida-based Ion Media Networks, as part of a duopoly with Archer Lodge-licensed Ion Plus owned-and-operated station WFPX-TV. The two stations share a sales office on Gresham Lake Road in Raleigh and transmitting facilities northeast of Middlesex in unincorporated Nash County.
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.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
ChannelVideoAspectPSIP Short NameNetwork
47.1720pIONIon Television
47.2480iQuboQubo
47.3480iShopIon Shop
47.5480iQVCQVC
47.6480iHSNHSN

Analog-to-digital conversion

WRPX-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 47, at noon on June 12, 2009, the official date in 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. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog 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 Oak City, which is within the Greenville media market.