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WFPX
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| WFPX | |
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| Fayetteville, North Carolina | |
| Branding | ION Television |
| Channels | Analog: 62 (UHF) Digital: 36 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | ION Television |
| Owner | ION Media Networks |
| Founded | 1984 |
| Call letters meaning | W Fayetteville's PaX |
| Former affiliations | Fox (1994-1998) |
| Website | www.ionline.tv |
WFPX is one of two ION Television affiliates for the Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina, USA, television market, licensed to nearby Fayetteville. The station is owned by ION Media Networks (the former Paxson Communications), and is a full-time satellite of WRPX. WFPX operates on UHF channel 62, with a digital signal on channel 36. Its transmitter is located in Lumber Bridge, North Carolina.
Channel 62 signed on in 1984 as WFCT, an independent broadcaster owned by Fayetteville/Cumberland Telecasters. Attorneys Robinson and Katherine Everett of Durham, founders of what is now present-day WRDC-TV in Raleigh, along with WJKA (now WSFX) in Wilmington and WGGT (now WMYV) in Greensboro, were two of the principals in this company.
The station changed call letters to WFAY 1993 and became a Fox affiliate in 1994. Even though WFAY was located in the same market as WLFL (a Fox affiliate at the time), it mainly focused on communities located south of Fayetteville that didn't get a good signal from WLFL. Some of its non-network programming was also simulcast to the Raleigh-Durham area on WRAY-TV for a couple of years in the mid-1990s until it was acquired by the Shop at Home network.
WFAY later became WFPX and dropped Fox after being bought out by Paxson in 1998. Later that year, newly-minted Fox station WFXB out of the Florence/Myrtle Beach market expanded its signal to cover areas formerly served by WFAY. It is worthy of note that WFPX's signal isn't seen at all in the northern portion of the Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville market, but covers northern portions of the Florence-Myrtle Beach market, which does not have its own ION affiliate.
 Former WFAY-TV FOX62 Logo |
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WUNC 4 / WUNU 31 / WUNP 36 (PBS/UNC-TV) - WRAL 5 (CBS) - WTVD 11 (ABC, AccuWX TV on DT3) - WUBX-CA 13/WUBX-LD 31 (MTV2?) - WBXU-CA 13 (MTV2?) - WNCN 17 (NBC, WX Plus on DT3) - WLFL 22 (The CW) - W24CP 24 (3ABN) - WTNC-LP 26 (TFU) - WRDC 28 (MNTV) - WRAY 30 (Ind) - WACN-LP 34 (DS) - WUVC 40 (UNI, TFU on DT2) - WHFL-LP 43 (Worship) - WZGS-CA 44 (Telemundo) - W45CN 45 / W45CO 45 / W63CW 63 / W64CN 64 (TBN) - WRPX 47 / WFPX 62 (ION) - WRAZ 50 (Fox, RTN on DT2) - WWIW-LP 66 (DS) - W67CD 67 (A1) - W68BK 68 (Educational) Local cable television channels Out-of-market broadcast television available on cable in some parts of the market |
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Independent Stations: WSKY 4 (Manteo) - WHKY 14 (Hickory) - WRAY 30 (Wilson) - WGSR 39 (Reidsville) - WAXN 64 (Kannapolis) |
| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MNTV, NBC, and PBS stations in North Carolina |