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WPPX-TV, the Glossary

WPPX-TV (channel 61) is a television station licensed to Wilmington, Delaware, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Philadelphia area.^[1]

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1986 establishments in Delaware
Television stations in Philadelphia

Aspect ratio (image)

The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of its width to its height.

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Astro Boy (1980 TV series)

, sometimes referred to as, is a color remake of the 1960s anime black-and-white series of the same name, both series are adapted from the manga series by Osamu Tezuka.

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Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City, sometimes referred to by its initials A.C., is a Jersey Shore seaside resort city in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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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.

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Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992

The Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 (also known as the 1992 Cable Act) is a United States federal law which required cable television systems to carry most local broadcast television channels and prohibited cable operators from charging local broadcasters to carry their signal.

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Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code

Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code (Title 11 of the United States Code) permits reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States.

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Comparative hearing

The comparative hearing process was used by the United States Federal Radio Commission from 1927 to 1934 and its successor, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), from 1934 to 1994 for the evaluation of mutually exclusive applications for broadcast stations and other licenses.

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Delaware Court of Chancery

The Delaware Court of Chancery is a court of equity in the U.S. state of Delaware.

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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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Dover, Delaware

Dover is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Delaware.

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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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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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Home shopping is the electronic retailing and home shopping channels industry, which includes such billion dollar television-based and e-commerce companies as Shop LC, HSN, Gemporia, TJC, QVC, eBay, ShopHQ, Buy.com and Amazon.com, as well as traditional mail order and brick and mortar retailers as Hammacher Schlemmer and Sears, Roebuck and Co.

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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 Network News (TV program)

The Independent Network News (INN) (later retitled INN: The Independent News and USA Tonight) was an American syndicated television news program that ran from June 9, 1980, to June 1990.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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KSCI

KSCI (channel 18) is a television station licensed to Long Beach, California, United States, serving the Los Angeles area.

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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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Manayunk, Philadelphia

Manayunk is a neighborhood in the section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania.

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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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Must-carry

In cable television, governments apply a must-carry regulation stating that locally licensed television stations must be carried on a cable provider's system.

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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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Paul Crouch

Paul Franklin Crouch /kraʊtʃ/ (March 30, 1934 – November 30, 2013) was an American television evangelist.

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Pay television

The pay television (pay TV), also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by multichannel television providers, but also increasingly via digital terrestrial and streaming television.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Philadelphia Big 5

The Big 5 is an informal association of six college athletic programs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Planning permission

Planning permission or building permit refers to the approval needed for construction or expansion (including significant renovation), and sometimes for demolition, in some jurisdictions.

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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. WPPX-TV and QVC are television channels and stations established in 1986.

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Reading, Pennsylvania

Reading (Reddin) is a city in and the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Roxborough, Philadelphia

Roxborough is a neighborhood in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Salisbury, Maryland

Salisbury is a city in and the county seat of Wicomico County, Maryland, United States.

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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.

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South Harrison Township, New Jersey

South Harrison Township is a township in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Telemundo

Telemundo (formerly NetSpan) is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a division of NBCUniversal, which in turn is a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast. It provides content nationally with programming syndicated worldwide to more than 100 countries in over 35 languages.

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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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Trinity Broadcasting Network

The Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN; legally Trinity Broadcasting of Texas, Inc.) is an international Christian-based broadcast television network and the world's largest religious television network.

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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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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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WBOC-TV

WBOC-TV (channel 16) is a television station in Salisbury, Maryland, United States, affiliated with CBS and Fox.

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Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington (Lenape: Paxahakink / Pakehakink) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPPX-TV

Also known as WPPX, WPPX-DT.

, WVUE (Wilmington, Delaware), WWSI, 16:9 aspect ratio, 480i, 720p.

WPPX-TV, the Glossary

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See also

1986 establishments in Delaware

Television stations in Philadelphia

References