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Full-power digital · channel 34 · CHICAGO, IL
| Facility ID | 10981 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | ION TELEVISION LICENSE, LLC |
| Community of licence | CHICAGO, IL
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 41.87889, -87.63556 |
| Effective radiated power | 400 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 689.5 m above average terrain · directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-24.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
No website is on file for this station, so there is nothing to check. Websites come from Wikidata; a station missing there is absent from this section rather than scored zero.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| facility 794476 | 2 | LPT | |
| facility 794464 | 3 | LPT | |
| WOCK-CD | 4 | DCA | KM LPTV OF CHICAGO-13, L.L.C. |
| WRME-LD | 6 | LPD | WLFM, LLC |
| facility 794180 | 8 | LPD | |
| KPDS-LD | 9 | LPD | HC2 STATION GROUP, INC. |
| facility 794194 | 11 | LPD | |
| facility 795401 | 11 | LPD | |
| facility 794830 | 11 | LPD | |
| facility 794832 | 11 | LPD | |
| WBBM-TV | 12 | DTV | CBS BROADCASTING INC. |
| facility 794182 | 13 | LPD |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WCPX-TV | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WCPX-TV | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.