WVPX-TV

WVPX-TV, virtual channel 23 , is an Ion Television-affiliated station serving Cleveland, Ohio, United States that is licensed to Akron. The station is owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings, as part of a duopoly with Canton-licensed Ion Plus affiliate WDLI-TV . The two stations share studios on Renaissance Parkway in Warrensville Heights and transmitter facilities on SR 261 in Norton, Ohio.

In early December of 1947, Summit Radio Corporation, the family-owned business of S. Bernard Berk and owners of WAKR and WAKR-FM —and Allen Simmons, owner of radio station WADC —filed competing applications with the Federal Communications Commission for what was initially seen as the lone television channel assigned to Akron, originally intended as a VHF license on channel 11. The applications were filed at the same time WEWS-TV had commenced operations as the first television station in Ohio. Both applications remained under review and went before a commission hearing on July 15, 1948, and WAKR had gone so far as to make a purchase order for VHF transmitting equipment from RCA, before the FCC implemented a freeze on any additional television licenses that September 30, while it studied the possibility of adding additional channels via the UHF band.

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