KSPX-TV (channel 29) is a television station in Sacramento, California, United States, airing programming from the Ion Television network. It is owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, and maintains offices on Prospect Park Drive in Rancho Cordova; its transmitter is located at TransTower in Walnut Grove, California. The station began broadcasting in 1990 with home shopping programming and aired home shopping and infomercials before the launch of Pax, predecessor to Ion, in 1998.
History
Channel 29 was assigned to Sacramento in February 1982 at the petition of Shamrock Broadcasting, an action the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) affirmed over objections from KRBK-TV on channel 31.[1][2] The commission designated a total of 12 applications for comparative hearing, including one from Shamrock; Channel 29 Investors, whose investors featured the father of