WTPX-TV

WTPX-TV

Antigo–Wausau–Rhinelander, Wisconsin United States
City	Antigo, Wisconsin
Channels	Digital: 19 (UHF) Virtual: 46
Branding	Ion
Programming
Affiliations	46.1: Ion Television for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Ion Media (Ion Television License, LLC)
Sister stations	WPXE-TV (network sister) WTMJ-TV, WGBA-TV, WACY-TV (adjacent market corporate sisters)
History
Founded	May 15, 1998
First air date	November 23, 2001 (2001-11-23)
Former call signs	WAZW (1998–1999) WTPX (1999–2009)
Former channel number(s)	Digital: 46 (UHF, 2002–2018)
Call sign meaning	Network's former name, Pax TV, transposed
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	86496
ERP	24.5 kW
HAAT	279 m (915 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	45°3′33″N 89°26′10″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	iontelevision.com

WTPX-TV (channel 46) is a television station licensed to Antigo, Wisconsin, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Wausau–Rhinelander market. Owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, the station maintains transmitter facilities near Glandon, Wisconsin.

Until 2021, the station's public file was maintained at studios on North Flint Road in Glendale, where WPXE-TV, the Ion station in the Milwaukee market, was based. In October of that year with the 2019 repeal of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s Main Studio Rule, Ion Media officially registered its studio facility (along with most Ion-owned stations) as the Scripps Center in Cincinnati. The same month, Green Bay sister station WGBA-TV launched Ion as its fifth subchannel, with the affiliation moving from WBAY-TV.

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WTPX-TV

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
46.1	720p	16:9	ION	Ion Television
46.2	480i		Grit	Grit
46.3			Mystery	Ion Mystery
46.4			Laff	Laff
46.5			Bounce	Bounce TV
46.6			Scripps	Scripps News
46.7			Jewelry	Jewelry Television
46.8			HSN	HSN
46.9			QVC2	QVC2

Paxson Communications/Ion Media chose to run WTPX-TV as a digital-only station upon signing on in 2001, and held no analog license for the station. Thus, WTPX-TV never had any digital transition channel, flash-cut or analog transition period. It moved from its original physical channel 46 to channel 19 during the FCC's spectrum repack in June 2018, but continues to use channel 46 as its virtual channel position.