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KPXN
San Bernardino / Los Angeles, California
Branding	ION Television
Channels	30 (UHF) analog, 38 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	ION Television
Owner	ION Media Networks
Founded	January 7, 1994
Call letters meaning	K PaXsoN
Former callsigns	KHOF, KAGL, KZKI
Former affiliations	Independent
Website	www.ionline.tv

KPXN, licensed to San Bernardino, California broadcasts on analog channel 30 and digital channel 38 in the Los Angeles area. It signed on on January 7, 1994 as KZKI. An investor group called "Sandino Communications" built KZKI, 'Sandino' being short of for the city of license of San Bernardino. Sandino sold KZKI to Paxson Communications in 1995 for $18 million dollars in cash and debt assumption. It is now owned by ION Media Networks (previously Paxson Communications). It is the local affiliate of the ION Television network.

Channel 30 first went on the air as KHOF-TV in October 1969. The station was a Christian broadcast outreach of Faith Center Church in Glendale, California, of which Dr. Gene Scott was the pastor. The church already owned and operated KHOF-FM radio (now KKLA) in Los Angeles. In the 1980s KHOF came under the scrutiny of the Federal Communications Commission due to its fund raising operations. Eventually, the FCC revoked KHOF-TV's license. After losing court challenges to the FCC action, KHOF-TV left the air in May, 1983.

In order to not keep Channel 30 dark until a new permanent licensee could be selected from the many applications the FCC anticipated, they decided to allow an interim broadcaster to operate on the channel. In 1984, Angeles Broadcasting was granted an interim license and in January 1985, returned channel 30 to the air as KAGL-TV. The station continued to broadcast religious programming and later some general programming as well. Because KAGL utilized the old KHOF transmitter, still owned by Faith Center, KAGL provided the Rev. Scott four hours of evening time and some daytime hours to continue the "Festival of Faith" programs he televised on KHOF.

In 1992, KAGL left the air. The FCC shut down the station so that KZKI, the new licensee, could construct a new transmitter. KZKI aired religious shows, infomercials, and some movies in the four years between that time and the launch of PAX TV (later i, now ION) in 1998.

Currently, channel 30, now KPXN, is the only remaining station transmitting from Sunset Ridge in the Mount Baldy range. At one time, KDOC. Ch 56 (now on Mt. Wilson), KSCI, Ch 18 and KRCA, Ch 62 (both now on Mt. Harvard) used to broadcast on Sunset Ridge as well. KPXN's digital transmitter, KPXN-DT, channel 38 transmits from Mt. Harvard.

KPXN aired rebroadcasts of KNBC's 6pm and 11pm newscasts until 2006. KPXN aired rebroadcasts of the weekday editions of "The Channel 4 News at 11PM" at 11:30pm. KPXN badged the newscast as "The Channel 4 News at 11:30 on PAX30." The 6pm news was called "The Channel 4 News at 6pm on PAX30." KPXN stopped airing the newscasts in 2006.

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Broadcast television in the Los Angeles market (Nielsen DMA #2)

KCBS 2 (CBS) - KNBC 4 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2) - KTLA 5 (The CW, The Tube on DT2) - KSFV-LP 6 (Ind/Spanish/Religious) - KABC 7 (ABC, News on DT2, AccuWX TV on DT3, Playhouse Disney on DT4) - KCAL 9 (Ind/CBS) - KTTV 11 (Fox) - KCOP 13 (MNTV) - KSCI 18 (Ind) - KWHY 22 (Ind/Spanish) - KVCR 24 (PBS) - KBLM-LP 25 (Ind/Spanish) - KNET-LP 25 (Ind/Infomercials) - KNLA-LP 27 (Ind/Spanish) - KZSW-LP 27 (Ind/IELN) - KCET 28 (PBS, Kids on DT2) - KPXN 30 (ION) - KMEX 34 (UNI) - KPAL-LP 38 (Ind) - KSKJ-CA 38 / KSKP-CA 25 (Ind) - KTBN 40 (TBN) - KXLA 44 (Ind) - KLAU-LP 45 (Ind/Infomercials) - KFTR 46 (TFU) - KOCE 50 (PBS, Kids on DT2, Orange Cty. on DT3) - KVEA 52 (TEL) - KAZA 54 (AZA) - KDOC 56 (Ind) - K57KF 57 (Almavision) - KJLA 57 / KSMV-LP 33 / KSGA-LP 64 (Ind) - KLCS 58 (PBS, Kids on DT2, Create! on DT3, Annenberg/CPB on DT4) - KRCA 62 (Ind) - KBEH 63 (MTV3) - KHIZ 64 (A1) - KHTV-LP 67 (HSN)
Local digital television channels KVMD 23 (Ind/A1)
Local cable television channels FSN West - FSN Prime Ticket
Past broadcast stations KKOG 16 (IND) - KVST / KEEF 68 (non-commercial)
See also Broadcast television in the San Diego / Tijuana, Imperial Valley / Yuma / El Centro, and Central Coast markets