WGPX

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WGPX
Burlington / Greensboro / Winston-Salem / High Point, North Carolina
Branding	i
Channels	16 (UHF) analog, 14 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	i
Owner	ION Media Networks
Founded	1984
Call letters meaning	W Greensboro's PaX
Former callsigns	WRDG (1984-90) WAAP (1990-98)
Former affiliations	Independent (religion) (1984-93) Independent (general) (1993-96) Infomercials (1996-98) Pax (1998-2005)
Website	www.paxgreensboro.tv www.ionline.tv

WGPX is the "i" affiliate licensed to Burlington, North Carolina and serving the Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point television market. The station offers paid programming, religious shows, and family entertainment from "i" such as dramas, talk shows and game shows. It is owned by ION Media Networks, and broadcasts on UHF channel 16, with a digital signal on channel 14.

[edit] History

The station signed on as WRDG in 1984 with a religious format. It became WAAP in 1990, continuing to air religious shows as well as adding home shopping programming from Shop at Home. The station added cartoons in the early mornings and afternoons in the fall of 1992, and some low budget barter entertainment shows in the evenings in the winter of that year. For a brief time in 1991/1992, WAAP ran a local newscast, "News Source 16". WXII-TV weatherman Austin Caviness was one of the personalities. By 1993, WAAP had become a general entertainment station running mostly barter shows and professional wrestling from the United States Wrestling Association, Smoky Mountain Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation.

The station originally desired to affiliate with UPN and WB when those networks launched in 1995, but both networks affiliated with other stations instead (WB with WTWB-TV; UPN with WXLV-TV/WUPN-TV). By the fall of that year, WAAP did manage to pick up a few syndicated cartoons from WXLV and WUPN.

Paxson bought the station in July 1996, and by the end of the year, WAAP was running infomercials and religious shows from morning to evening and Worship music overnight. The station changed its call letters to WGPX in January 1998, and became an affiliate of PAX-TV that August. Then in July of 2005, PAX-TV became i.

[edit] External link

• Schedule page on ionline.tv
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WGPX