WPXE-TV, digital channel 40, is the Ion Television O&O; station for Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with the city of license thirty miles south in Kenosha. However, the digital transmitter is situated within the traditional tower farm site on Milwaukee's northeast side with the antenna located on the Milwaukee Public Television tower, and the station offices straddling the city line between Milwaukee and Glendale . Its signal covers most of southeastern Wi...
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WPXE-TV, digital channel 40, is the Ion Television O&O; station for Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with the city of license thirty miles south in Kenosha. However, the digital transmitter is situated within the traditional tower farm site on Milwaukee's northeast side with the antenna located on the Milwaukee Public Television tower, and the station offices straddling the city line between Milwaukee and Glendale . Its signal covers most of southeastern Wisconsin and parts of northeastern Illinois, including the cities of Racine, Kenosha, and Waukesha, Ozaukee, Fond du Lac, Dodge and Sheboygan counties.
The station signed on in June 1988 as WHKE, a religious station owned by LeSEA. The call letters stood for World Harvest Kenosha Evangelism. The station's analog transmitter was located in northern Racine County near Interstate 94 and had a limited transmission area; this caused the station to not be available in Fond du Lac and Sheboygan counties except through cable. Paxson Communications, now...
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