WNPX-TV, the Glossary
WNPX-TV (channel 28) is a television station licensed to Franklin, Tennessee, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Nashville area.[1]
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73 relations: Analog television, Animation, Aspect ratio (image), Berkshire Hathaway, Bounce TV, Bowling Green, Kentucky, Broadcasting & Cable, CBS, Charleston Gazette-Mail, Chicago, Chicago Sun-Times, Cincinnati, City of license, Cookeville, Tennessee, Court TV, Cross Plains, Tennessee, Daystar Television Network, Digital television transition in the United States, Display resolution, E. W. Scripps Company, Factual television, Feature film, Federal Communications Commission, Franklin, Tennessee, Grit (TV network), HSN, Independent station, Infomercial, Ion Media, Ion Mystery, Ion Plus, Ion Television, Jewelry Television, Kentucky, Laff (TV network), Limited liability company, List of Daystar Television Network stations, Media market, Multiplex (television), Nashville, Tennessee, NewsNation, Owned-and-operated station, Qubo, QVC, Reality television, Religious broadcasting, RELX, Roberts Broadcasting, Scripps Networks, Scripps News, ... Expand index (23 more) »
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Analog television
Analog television is the original television technology that uses analog signals to transmit video and audio.
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Animation
Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images.
Aspect ratio (image)
The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of its width to its height.
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Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Bounce TV
Bounce TV is an American digital broadcast television network owned by Scripps Networks, a subsidiary of E. W. Scripps Company.
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Bowling Green is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Warren County, Kentucky, United States.
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Broadcasting & Cable
Broadcasting & Cable (B&C, or Broadcasting+Cable) is a monthly telecommunications industry trade magazine published by Future US.
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CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
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Charleston Gazette-Mail
The Charleston Gazette-Mail is a non-daily morning newspaper in Charleston, West Virginia.
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Chicago
Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.
Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati (nicknamed Cincy) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.
City of license
In U.S., Canadian, and Mexican broadcasting, a city of license or community of license is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator.
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Cookeville, Tennessee
Cookeville is the county seat and largest city of Putnam County, Tennessee, United States.
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Court TV
Court TV is an American digital broadcast network and former pay-television channel.
Cross Plains, Tennessee
Cross Plains is a city in Robertson County, Tennessee.
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Daystar Television Network
The Daystar Television Network commonly known as Daystar Television or just Daystar, is an American evangelical Christian-based religious television network owned by the Word of God Fellowship, founded by Marcus Lamb in 1993.
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Digital television transition in the United States
The digital transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of terrestrial television programming.
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Display resolution
The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor, or other display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed.
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E. W. Scripps Company
The E. W. Scripps Company, also known as Scripps, is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis "E. W." Scripps and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps.
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Factual television
Factual television is a genre of non-fiction television programming that documents actual events and people.
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Feature film
A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program.
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.
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Franklin, Tennessee
Franklin is a city in and the county seat of Williamson County, Tennessee, United States.
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Grit (TV network)
Grit is an American free-to-air television network owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company.
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HSN
HSN, an initialism of its former name Home Shopping Network, is an American free-to-air television network owned by the Qurate Retail Group, which also owns catalog company Cornerstone Brands.
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Independent station
An independent station is a broadcast station, usually a television station, not affiliated with a larger broadcast network.
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Infomercial
An infomercial is a form of television commercial that resembles regular TV programming yet is intended to promote or sell a product, service or idea.
Ion Media, LLC (formerly known as Paxson Communications Corporation and Ion Media Networks) is a subsidiary of the E.nbspW. Scripps Company that operates the linear broadcast networks Ion Television and Ion Plus.
Ion Mystery
Ion Mystery (formerly Escape and Court TV Mystery, stylized as ESCAPE and MYSTERY; formerly branded on-air as Mystery) is an American free-to-air television network owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company.
Ion Plus
Ion Plus is an American broadcast television network and FAST television channel owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company.
Ion Television
Ion Television (currently known on-air as simply Ion) is an American broadcast television network and FAST television channel owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company.
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Jewelry Television
Jewelry Television is an American television network specializing in the sale of jewelry.
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Kentucky
Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Laff (TV network)
Laff (legal name: Laff Media, LLC) is an American digital multicast television network headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and is owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company.
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Limited liability company
A limited liability company (LLC) is the United States-specific form of a private limited company.
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List of Daystar Television Network stations
This is a list of television stations affiliated with Daystar, a religious television network founded by Marcus and Joni Lamb.
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A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area (DMA), television market area, or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same (or similar) television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media such as newspapers and internet content.
Multiplex (television)
A multiplex or mux, also known as a bouquet, is a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium, particularly terrestrial broadcasting.
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Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County.
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NewsNation
NewsNation is an American subscription television network owned by the Nexstar Media Group, and is the company's only wholly owned, national cable-originated television channel.
Owned-and-operated station
In the broadcasting industry, an owned-and-operated station (frequently abbreviated as an O&O) usually refers to a television or radio station owned by the network with which it is associated.
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Qubo
Qubo (stylized as qubo) was an American television network for children between the ages of 5 and 14.
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QVC
QVC (short for "Quality Value Convenience") is an American free-to-air television network and a flagship shopping channel specializing in televised home shopping, owned by Qurate Retail Group.
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Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors.
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Religious broadcasting
Religious broadcasting, sometimes referred to as faith-based broadcasts, is the dissemination of television and/or radio content that intentionally has religious ideas, religious experience, or religious practice as its core focus.
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RELX
RELX plc (pronounced "Rel-ex") is a British multinational information and analytics company headquartered in London, England.
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Roberts Broadcasting
Roberts Broadcasting Company is a media company based in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Scripps Networks
Scripps Networks, LLC, formerly known as Katz Broadcasting, is an American specialized digital multicasting network media company and a division of the E. W. Scripps Company.
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Scripps News
Scripps News is an American news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and owned by the Scripps Networks division of the E. W. Scripps Company.
Sister station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio or television stations operated by the same company, either by direct ownership or through a management agreement.
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Sitcom
A sitcom (a shortening of situation comedy, or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy centred on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode.
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Station identification
Station identification (ident, network ID, channel ID or bumper) is the practice of radio and television stations and networks identifying themselves on-air, typically by means of a call sign or brand name (sometimes known, particularly in the United States, as a "sounder" or "stinger", more generally as a station or network ID).
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Sun-Times Media Group (formerly Hollinger International) is a Chicago-based newspaper publisher.
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Television station
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to any number of tuned receivers simultaneously.
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The WB
The WB Television Network (shortened to The WB, and nicknamed the "Frog Network" or "The Frog" for its former mascot Michigan J. Frog) was an American television network launched on broadcast television on January 11, 1995, as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner and the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Company, with the former acting as controlling partner (and from which The WB received its name).
Tribune Media Company, also known as Tribune Company, was an American multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Ultra high frequency
Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (one decimeter).
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Virtual channel
In most telecommunications organizations, a virtual channel is a method of remapping the program number as used in H.222 Program Association Tables and Program Mapping Tables to a channel number that can be entered as digits on a receiver's remote control.
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Warner Media, LLC (doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T.
Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.
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WGN-TV
WGN-TV (channel 9) is an independent television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States. WNPX-TV and WGN-TV are Grit (TV network) affiliates.
Whites Creek, Tennessee
Whites Creek is a neighborhood of Davidson County in the U.S. state of Tennessee.
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WKRN-TV
WKRN-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Nexstar Media Group.
WNAB
WNAB (channel 58) is a television station in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with the digital multicast network Dabl.
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WNKY-LD
WNKY-LD (channel 35) is a low-power television station in Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States, affiliated with Ion Television. WNPX-TV and WNKY-LD are Ion Plus affiliates, Ion Television affiliates and Laff (TV network) affiliates.
WSMV-TV
WSMV-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with NBC. WNPX-TV and WSMV-TV are Court TV affiliates.
WTVF
WTVF (channel 5) is a television station in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with CBS. WNPX-TV and WTVF are e. W. Scripps Company television stations.
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16:9 aspect ratio
16:9 is a widescreen aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9 units.
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2016 United States wireless spectrum auction
The 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction, officially known as Auction 1001, allocated approximately 100 MHz of the United States Ultra High Frequency (UHF) spectrum formerly allocated to UHF television in the 600 MHz band.
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480i
480i is the video mode used for standard-definition digital video in the Caribbean, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Myanmar, Western Sahara, and most of the Americas (with the exception of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay).
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720p
720p (720 lines progressive) is a progressive HD signal format with 720 horizontal lines/1280 columns and an aspect ratio (AR) of 16:9, normally known as widescreen HD (1.78:1).
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See also
1989 establishments in Tennessee
- Delta HRA Public Transit
- Fuel (band)
- Houston High School (Germantown, Tennessee)
- Lt. Alexander "Sandy" Bonnyman Memorial Bridge
- Memphis Italian Festival
- Nashville Metros
- Nashville Scene
- Regal Cinemas
- Riverbend Maximum Security Institution
- Southern Festival of Books
- Tennessee Meiji Gakuin High School
- WAPK-CD
- WMTY (AM)
- WNPX-TV
- WOKI
- WTJK
- WWCR
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNPX-TV
Also known as WNPX.
, Sister station, Sitcom, St. Louis, Station identification, Sun-Times Media Group, Television station, The WB, Tribune Media, Ultra high frequency, Virtual channel, WarnerMedia, Watt, WGN-TV, Whites Creek, Tennessee, WKRN-TV, WNAB, WNKY-LD, WSMV-TV, WTVF, 16:9 aspect ratio, 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction, 480i, 720p.