KJPX-TV

KJPX-TV, virtual channel 60 (UHF digital channel 22), is a Ion Television owned-and-operated station licensed to, United States and also serving. The station is owned by the subsidiary of the. KJPX's offices are located on East 5th Street in Joplin; it's transmitter is located near.

From 2002-2009, KJPX-TV was simulcast on low-power (channel 47).

Tower destruction
In May 2011, the station's original broadcast tower in was destroyed when it was struck by. Viewers continued to receive Ion, Qubo and Ion Life directly via cable or satellite while Ion worked to build a replacement tower. This was finally completed in mid-July 2012 with a new tower installed near Galena, Kansas.

During several months of the tower build, the station was at risk of losing its broadcast license due to a one-year statutory requirement for all over-the-air stations enacted by Congress. granted Ion permission to temporarily rent space on the former Long Lines relay tower next to it's Pearl Avenue facility in Joplin to get KJPX-TV back on the air before the end of February 2012. El TV Kadsre Broadcast Relay Services deployed a mobile studio and satellite relay to feed Ion programming and the local inserts to the makeshift tower.