KPXM
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| St. Cloud / Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota | |
| Branding | ION Television |
| Channels | 41 (UHF) analog, 40 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | ION Television |
| Owner | ION Media Networks |
| Founded | 1981 |
| Call letters meaning | K PAX Minnesota |
| Former callsigns | KXLI (1981-1997) |
| Former affiliations | Independent |
| Website | ionline.tv |
KPXM channel 41 (40 digital) is an affiliate of the ION Television network (formerly PAX and i) based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. While licensed to serve St. Cloud, Minnesota, the station's transmitter is located about halfway between that city and the core of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area and serves both regions. The KPXM Tower near the city of Big Lake is the tallest structure in the state, standing 1505 feet tall—nearly twice as high as the skyscrapers of downtown Minneapolis.
KPXM is owned by ion Media Networks, the former Paxson Communications.
Aside from evening shows from ION Television, most content broadcast on the channel consists of infomercials and The Worship Network.
[edit] History
The station originally signed on the air in 1981 as KXLI (XLI: 41 in roman numerals). The station identified themselves as TV Heaven 41 and showed syndicated fare and reruns of classic shows, airing them in themed nights (such as westerns, war/military, comedies, and detective/mysteries). KXLI was also simulcast on KXLT channel 47 in Rochester, and by the late 1980s, Minnesota North Stars hockey broadcasts would also air on the stations.
In the late 1980s, KXLI attempted to create the Minnesota Independent Network (MIN) along with Twin Cities station KTMA (now WUCW) and a broadcasting group in Fargo, North Dakota. After a significant amount of planning and initial work, the plan fell through. A financial crisis led KXLI and KXLT to go off the air at the end of 1988 (KTMA also teetered financially for a time). KXLI and KXLT resurfaced in 1990 with religious and infomercial programming, which continued through their purchase by Lowell "Bud" Paxon in the mid-1990s.
In 1998, Paxon broke the KXLI/KXLT simulcast by selling the latter station (which became a FOX affiliate for the Rochester market). Paxon also changed KXLI's call letters to KPXM, and the station would join the PAX network (now ION Television) later in 1998.
KPXM originally had a marketing agreement with KARE channel 11 where the station broadcasts KARE's evening newscasts tape-delayed by half an hour, and also transmits KARE's morning show again in the afternoon. This agreement ended in July 2005, when Paxson chose to end such agreements for all his stations.
[edit] Previous Logos
 TV Heaven (1987) |
 Logo Screen (1996) |
 Logo Screen (January 1998) |
 Pax 41 logo, 1998-2005 |
[edit] External links
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KTCA 2 / KTCI 17 (PBS) - WCCO 4 (CBS) - KSTP 5 (ABC) - WTMS-CA 7 (TFU) - KMSP 9 (Fox) - KARE 11 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2) - WUMN-CA 13 (UNI) - WUCW 23 (The CW) - |
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KCCO 7 / KCCW 12 (CBS) - WDAZ 8 (ABC) - KAWE 9 / KAWB 22 (PBS) - KWCM 10 / KSMN 20 (PBS) - KVLY 11 (NBC) - KVRR 15 (Fox) - KFTC 26 (MNTV) - |
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FSN North - UHF-TV Inc. (K17FA / K34HO) (Willmar) |
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WTMS-CA 7 (Minneapolis, Telefutura) - WUMN-CA 13 (Minneapolis, Univision) - KQEG 23 (La Crescent, FamilyNet) - KPXM 41 (St. Cloud / Minneapolis, ION) - |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, and PBS stations in Minnesota | |
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Corporate Leadership: R. Brandon Burgess | Dean M. Goodman | Richard Garcia | Adam K. Weinstein | Tammy G. Hedge | Steven J. Friedman | Stephen P. Appel | Douglas C. Barker | David A. Glenn |
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Broadcast Television Networks: ION Television |
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1These stations are operated by ION under a time brokerage agreement. |
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Annual Revenue: $276.6 million USD (2004) | Employees: 433 (2005) | Stock Symbol: AMEX: ION | Website: www.ionmedia.tv |
