WUPS

WUPS, Virtual and UHF Channel 17, is a Comet-Affiliated television station licensed to Knoxville, Tennessee. The station is owned and operated by The Sinclair Television Group, and is part of duopoly with Knoxville-licensed My Network TV affiliate WMYK (channel 39.)
The station signed on the air at 3:12 AM on June 23, 1979, as an independent station, mostly showing cartoons and paid programming. When Pax Tv came on the air on August 31, 1998, the station became an affiliate of PAX. 
However in 2005, Pax had a new branding, called I (independent television) and so this station also became an affiliate of I-TV.
Finally I-TV rebranded again as Ion Television, and this station also became an affiliate of Ion Television.
But then in 2020, it lost its affiliate with Ion Television and became an owned and operated affiliate of Comet.
Category:Knoxville, Tennessee