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List Of Television Stations In Pennsylvania
This is a list of broadcast television stations that are licensed in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Full-power stations VC refers to the station's PSIP virtual channel. RF refers to the station's physical RF channel. Defunct full-power stations *Channel 16: WENS - Ind. - Pittsburgh - (8/25/1953-8/31/1957) *Channel 17: WPCA-TV - Ind. - Philadelphia - (7/10/1960-8/1/1962 and 1/31/1963-6/?/1963) *Channel 27: WCMB-TV - DuMont - Harrisburg (9/8/1954-4/9/1957) *Channel 32: WBPZ-TV - Lock Haven (3/2/1958-9/4/1959) *Channel 33: WEEU-TV - NBC - Reading (4/9/1953-6/30/1955) *Channel 34: WILK-TV - ABC/DuMon- Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (9/7/1953-9/10/1958, merged with WNEP-TV) *Channel 35: WUHY-TV - NET/PBS - Philadelphia (1963-1972) *Channel 46: WCHA-TV - Chambersburg (9/3/1953-7/18/1954) *Channel 49: WNOW-TV - DuMont - York (11/9/1953-5/31/1958) *Channel 51: WLEV-TV - NBC - Bethlehem (4/21/1953-10/31/1957) *Channel 53: WKJF-TV - NBC - Pittsburgh (7/14/1953-7/2/1954) *Channel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, Maryland to its south, West Virginia to its southwest, Ohio to its west, Lake Erie and the Canadian province of Ontario to its northwest, New York to its north, and the Delaware River and New Jersey to its east. Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state in the nation with over 13 million residents as of 2020. It is the 33rd-largest state by area and ranks ninth among all states in population density. The southeastern Delaware Valley metropolitan area comprises and surrounds Philadelphia, the state's largest and nation's sixth most populous city. Another 2.37 million reside in Greater Pittsburgh in the southwest, centered around Pittsburgh, the state's second-largest and Western Pennsylvania's largest city. The state's su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WPSU-TV
WPSU-TV (channel 3) is a PBS member television station licensed to Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States, serving West-Central Pennsylvania. Owned by the Pennsylvania State University as part of Penn State Public Media, it is sister to NPR member WPSU (91.5 FM) and student radio station WKPS ("The Lion 90.7 FM"). The three stations share studios at Innovation Park on Penn State's University Park campus in State College. WPSU-TV's primary transmitter is located north of Clearfield in Lawrence Township, with a secondary transmitter in Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania. Overview WPSU-TV reaches 500,000 households in west-central and central Pennsylvania and southern New York, as well as a few households in western Pennsylvania. In many rural portions of this area, viewers need cable television to receive other stations. The station's signal is easily receivable as far away as Warren where it is carried on local cable systems instead of Erie's WQLN, Williamsport and Bradford, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Mystery
Ion Mystery (formerly Escape and Court TV Mystery, stylized as ESCAPE and MYSTERY; formerly branded on-air as Mystery) is an American digital subchannel#Commercial networks, free-to-air television network owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. It focuses primarily on mystery, true crime, and police/legal procedural programs. It is available in several media markets via the digital subchannels of Terrestrial television, terrestrial television stations and on the digital cable, digital tiers of select cable television, cable providers through a local affiliate of the network. History Katz Broadcasting announced the formation of Escape and sister network Grit (TV network), Grit on April 3, 2014, with a formal launch scheduled for that summer. When the network was first announced, Katz Broadcasting entered into an affiliation agreement with Univision Communications, which planned to launch Grit in 22 markets served by a station owned by the group or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTAJ-TV
WTAJ-TV (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States, serving the Johnstown–Altoona– State College market as an affiliate of CBS. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios on 6th Avenue in Altoona and a transmitter in Logan Township. History The station signed on March 1, 1953 as WFBG-TV. The call letters came from the initials of the station's founder, William F. B. Gable, owner of Gable's Department Store in Altoona. Gable also owned WFBG (1290 AM) and WFBG-FM (98.1, now WFGY). In the station's early days, all programs were produced and transmitted live from the studios on Wopsononock Mountain in Altoona; the WFBG stations moved in 1959 to a new studio facility on 6th Avenue, where channel 10 continues to operate from today. Channel 10 was one of the strongest stations in the entire country, utilizing over 300,000 watts to serve its coverage area (most of which is a very rugged dissected plateau). The station could ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WATM-TV
WATM-TV (channel 23) is a television station licensed to Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the American Broadcasting Company, ABC affiliate for the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Johnstown–Altoona–State College, Pennsylvania, State College media market, market. It is owned by Palm Television, Limited partnership, L.P., which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Cunningham Broadcasting, owner of Johnstown-licensed Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox affiliate WWCP-TV (channel 8), for the provision of certain services. Both stations, in turn, are operated under a time brokerage agreement (TBA) by Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of Johnstown-licensed dual NBC/The CW Plus, CW+ affiliate WJAC-TV (channel 6). WATM-TV and WWCP-TV share studios on Lulay Street in the borough of Geistown, Pennsylvania, Geistown (with a Johnstown United States Postal Service, postal address), and also operate advertising sales offices in Altoona (on East Walton Avenue/Pennsylvania Route ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the ABC Entertainment Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, are in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. It is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the American Big Three television networks. The network is sometimes referred to as the Alphabet Network, as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Broadcasting Company
The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps as FOX, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by Fox Corporation and headquartered in New York City, with master control operations and additional offices at the Fox Network Center in Los Angeles and the Fox Media Center in Tempe. Launched as a competitor to the Big Three television networks ( ABC, CBS, and NBC) on October 9, 1986, Fox went on to become the most successful attempt at a fourth television network. It was the highest- rated free-to-air network in the 18–49 demographic from 2004 to 2012 and again in 2020, and was the most-watched American television network in total viewership during the 2007–08 season. Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, but these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U.S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U.S.-based Fox affiliate, either ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWCP-TV
WWCP-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox affiliate for the Johnstown–Altoona, Pennsylvania, Altoona–State College, Pennsylvania, State College media market, market. It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, which provides certain services to Altoona-licensed American Broadcasting Company, ABC affiliate WATM-TV (channel 23) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Palm Television, Limited partnership, L.P. Both stations, in turn, are operated under a Local marketing agreement, time brokerage agreement (TBA) by Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of Johnstown-licensed dual NBC/The CW Plus, CW+ affiliate WJAC-TV (channel 6). WWCP-TV and WATM-TV share studios on Lulay Street in the borough of Geistown, Pennsylvania, Geistown (with a Johnstown United States Postal Service, postal address), and also operate advertising sales offices in Altoona (on East Walton Avenue/Pennsylvania Route 7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The CW
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comet (TV Network)
Comet is an American digital broadcast television network owned by the Sinclair Television Group subsidiary of the Sinclair Broadcast Group. The network focuses on science fiction with some supernatural, horror, adventure and fantasy series and films, sourced mainly from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film and television library. Sinclair also owns Charge! (action), Stadium (sports joint venture) and TBD (youth) broadcast networks. Comet is also available via Apple TV, FuboTV, YouTubeTV, Roku, Sling TV, Dish Network and Sinclair's Stirr. History On June 29, 2015, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Sinclair Broadcast Group's broadcasting and programming subsidiary Sinclair Television Group, Inc. announced the expected 4th quarter launch of the then-unnamed science fiction network. Sinclair chief operating officer David Amy, in announcing the partnership, noted that MGM "has an extensive collection of science fiction films and television movies that appeal to a vast audience who will now be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charge! (TV Network)
Charge! is an American digital broadcast television network owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. The network features action- and adventure-based programming sourced primarily from the MGM television and film library. The network is also available via a website stream for mobile devices (internet sourced) broadcast networks and via streaming service Stirr. Background Sinclair Broadcast Group had already put three digital broadcast television networks on the air. The first was with MGM, the science-fiction network Comet, which was launched in October 2015. American Sports Network, Sinclair's sports programming arm (now the framework for Stadium), was broadened to include full network operations on January 11, 2016. Sinclair started TBD, a network targeting millennial audiences, which commenced operations on February 13, 2017 in a soft launch. History Charge! was formally announced by Sinclair and MGM on January 17, 2017. The network debuted on February 28, 2017. Stations carr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJAC-TV
WJAC-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States, serving the Johnstown– Altoona– State College market as an affiliate of NBC and The CW Plus. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to Johnstown-licensed Fox affiliate WWCP-TV, channel 8 (owned by Sinclair partner company Cunningham Broadcasting) and Altoona-licensed ABC affiliate WATM-TV, channel 23 (owned by Palm Television, L.P. and operated by Cunningham Broadcasting under a local marketing agreement (LMA)) under a time brokerage agreement (TBA). WJAC-TV's studios (which also house master control and some internal operations for WWCP-TV and WATM-TV) are located on Old Hickory Lane in Upper Yoder Township (with a Johnstown postal address), and its transmitter is located northwest of the city in Laurel Ridge State Park along the Cambria– Westmoreland county line. WWCP-TV and WATM-TV maintain separate facilities on Lulay Street in the boroug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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