KPXL-TV


KPXL-TV, virtual and UHF digital channel 26, is an Ion Television owned-and-operated station serving San Antonio, Texas, United States that is licensed to Uvalde. The station is owned by West Palm Beach, Florida-based Ion Media Networks. KPXL-TV's transmitter is located off Highway 173/RM Road 689 on the Medina–Bandera county line. On cable, the station is available on Charter Spectrum channel 2, Grande Communications channel 3, and AT&T U-verse channel 26.

History

The station first signed on the air on February 19, 1999; KPXL was built and signed on by Paxson Communications as an owned-and-operated station of Ion Television predecessor Pax TV.

Digital television

Analog-to-digital conversion

Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997 , the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. KPXL-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 26, on June 12, 2009. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 26.