market expanded its signal to cover areas formerly served by WFAY. It is worthy of note that WFPX's signal was not seen at all in the northern portion of the Raleigh–Durham–Fayetteville market, but covered northern portions of the Florence–Myrtle Beach market, which did not have its own Ion Television affiliate until 2015, when WBTW added Ion on a digital subchannel following a deal made with Media General. Channel-sharing agreement with WRPX On April 4, 2017, WFPX was identified by the FCC as receiving $62.4 million for the spectrum reallocation auction. The station later entered into a channel-sharing arrangement with WRPX. Since WRPX's signal does not reach Fayetteville, WFPX changed its city of license to Archer Lodge, east of Raleigh. After the channel share went into effect, WRPX-DT3, carrying Ion Life (later Ion Plus), took WFPX's 62.1 virtual channel, assuring that network market-wide must-carry over pay-TV systems. On February 27, 2021, after the closure of Ion Plus, WFPX-TV became a Bounce TV owned-and-operated station. Technical information Subchannel Analog-to-digital conversion WFPX-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 62, at noon 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 36. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 62, which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition. Spectrum repack WFPX-TV moved from channel 15 to channel 32 on September 11, 2019. Out-of-market coverage In recent years, WFPX has been carried on cable in multiple areas within the Wilmington media market. References Bounce TV affiliates E. W. Scripps Company television stations Television channels and stations established in 1985 1985 establishments in North Carolina FPX-TV Johnston County, North Carolina