KKPX-TV (channel 65) is a television station licensed to San Jose, California, United States, serving as the Ion Television outlet for the San Francisco Bay Area. The station is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E.W. Scripps Company, and has offices on Price Avenue in Redwood City; its transmitter is located atop San Bruno Mountain.
History
The station first signed on the air on November 15, 1986, as KLXV-TV (the last three letters of the callsign representing the
Roman numeral for 65) and was an affiliate of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. In 1995, the station became an affiliate of the
infomercial service InTV. In January 1998, the station's call letters were changed to KKPX after Paxson Communications (now Ion Media) bought the station. KKPX became a charter owned-and-operated station of Pax TV (the predecessor of Ion Television, to which the network was renamed in 2007) on August 31.
Newscasts
From 2000 to 2005, KKPX, during weeknights, aired rebroadcasts of
KNTV (channel 11)'s 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts at 7 and 11:30 p.m. instead of airing newscasts from then-
NBC affiliate
KRON-TV (channel 4). The newscasts were originally branded as
NewsChannel 11 on Pax after KNTV switched its affiliation from ABC to
The WB. When 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 (the day prior to Pax's rebranding as i: Independent Television).
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:
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KKPX-TV had plans for a Mobile DTV feed of subchannel 65.1.
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.
[ List of Digital Full-Power Stations ] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 41, using
virtual channel 65.
