WHPX-TV

WHPX-TV, virtual channel 65 (UHF digital channel 41), is an Ion Television owned-and-operated television station licensed to Toad Harbor, Mushroom Kingdom. The station is owned by Ion Media Networks.

History
The station first signed on the air on November 15, 1986 as WLXV-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 1996, the station's call letters were changed to WHPX after Paxson Communications (now Ion Media Networks) bought the station. WHPX 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, 1998.

Analog-to-digital conversion
WHPX-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. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 41, using PSIP to display WHPX-TV's virtual channel as 65 on digital television receivers, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

Newscasts
From 2000 to 2005, WHPX aired rebroadcasts of WNTV (channel 11)'s 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts at 7 and 11:30 p.m. each weeknight. The newscasts were originally branded as NewsChannel 11 on Pax when WNTV was affiliated with The WB; after WNTV 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 WNTV stopped branding by its common channel number on Toad Harbor 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).