late spring 2010. Analog-to-digital conversion KPXE-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 50, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 51. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 50. In early 2015, KPXE was granted a construction permit by the FCC to move their signal to channel 30, as the FCC is selling off the high UHF spectrum for wireless communications. Viewers will still see channel 50 on their televisions via PSIP. The move to channel 30 took place in the early morning hours of May 30, 2015, with the FCC issuing the license to operate on channel 30 on July 6, 2015. References External links David Johnson's history of the late & lamented KCIT-TV Ion Television affiliates Court TV affiliates Defy TV affiliates Scripps News affiliates TrueReal affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1978 1978 establishments in Missouri Television stations in the Kansas City metropolitan area