This is a list of media in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania:
This is a list of media in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania:
| Newspaper | Location | Founded | Type | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Brown and White | Bethlehem | 1894 | College | thebrownandwhite.com |
| The Express-Times | Easton | 1855 | Daily | lehighvalleylive.com |
| The Lafayette | Easton | 1870 | College | lafayettestudentnews.com |
| Lehigh Valley Business | Bethlehem | 1990 | Financial, Weekly | lvb.com |
| Lehigh Valley Style | Easton | 2000 | Monthly | lehighvalleystyle.com |
| Lifestyles over 50 | Allentown | 2006 | Quarterly | lifestylesover50.com |
| The Morning Call | Allentown | 1883 | Daily | mcall.com |
| Muhlenberg Weekly | Allentown | 1883 | College, weekly | muhlenbergweekly.com |
| Pork Illustrated: The Official IronPigs Game Day Program | Allentown | 2008 | Sports | Pork Illustrated |
| Times News | Lehighton | 1883 | Daily | tnonline.com |
| Television station | Location | Affiliate | Founded | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WBPH-TV | Allentown | Independent station | 1990 | wbph.org |
| WFMZ-TV* | Allentown | Independent station | 1976 | wfmz.com |
| WLVT-TV | Bethlehem | PBS | 1965 | wlvt.org |
The Lehigh Valley is also part of the Philadelphia television market. Philadelphia stations are available over-the-air and on cable.
* A WFMZ-TV went on the air in December 1954 on analog UHF channel 67. It went dark in April 1955. [1]
| AM radio station | Frequency (kHz) | Format | Founded | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAEB | 790 | News | 1949 | waeb.com |
| WGPA | 1100 | Ameripolitan [2] | 1946 | wgpasunny1100.com |
| WEEX | 1230 | Sports | espnlv.com | |
| WTKZ | 1320 | Sports | 1948* | espnlv.com |
| WEST | 1400 | Rhythmic Contemporary | loudradiopa.com | |
| WSAN | 1470 | Talk/Podcast | 1923** | podcastam1470.com |
| WHOL | 1600 | Rhythmic Contemporary | 1948 | loudradiopa.com |
* As WKAP
** As WCBA (1070) [1]
| FM radio stations | Frequency (MHz) | Branding | Format | Founded | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WDIY | 88.1 | WDIY | Public Radio | 1995 | wdiy.org |
| WJCS | 89.3 | WJCS 89.3 | Religious | wjcs.org | |
| WLHI | 90.3 | The Word FM | Religious | 1983* | wordfm.org |
| WLVR-FM | 91.3 | 91.3 WLVR | Public Radio | 1946 | wlvr.org |
| WMUH | 91.7 | 91.7 WMUH | College | 1950 | muhlenberg.edu/wmuh |
| WZZO | 95.1 | 95-1 ZZO | Active Rock | 1977 | wzzo.com |
| WCTO | 96.1 | Cat Country 96 & 107 | Country | 1947 | catcountry96.com |
| WEST | 99.5 | Loud Radio 106.9/99.5 | Rhythmic Contemporary | 1936 | loudradiopa.com |
| WODE-FM | 99.9 | 99-9 The Hawk | Classic Rock | 1948 | 999thehawk.com |
| WLEV | 100.7 | WLEV | Adult Contemporary | 1947** | wlevradio.com |
| WAEB-FM | 104.1 | B104 | Top 40/CHR | 1961 | b104.com |
| WJRH | 104.9 | WJRH-FM | College | 1946 | wjrh.org |
| WHOL | 106.9 | Loud Radio 106.9/99.5 | Rhythmic Contemporary | 1948 | loudradiopa.com |
| WWYY | 107.1 | Cat Country 96 & 107 | Country | 1992*** | catcountry96.com |
* As WXLV (1983 - 2013)
** As WFMZ [1]
*** As WRNJ-FM (1992–1998)
Lehigh County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 374,557. Its county seat is Allentown, the state's third-largest city after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Allentown is the county seat of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the third-most populous city in Pennsylvania with a population of 125,845 as of the 2020 census and the most populous city in the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the nation as of 2020.
Lehigh Valley International Airport, formerly Allentown–Bethlehem–Easton International Airport, is a domestic airport located in Hanover Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Lehigh Valley International Airport is located in the center of the Lehigh Valley, roughly 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Allentown, 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Bethlehem, and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Easton.
The following is an alphabetical list of articles on people, places, and things related to Pennsylvania in the United States.
The Lehigh Valley is a geographic and metropolitan region formed by the Lehigh River in Lehigh and Northampton counties in eastern Pennsylvania. It is a component valley of the Great Appalachian Valley bounded to its north by Blue Mountain, to its south by South Mountain, to its west by Lebanon Valley, and to its east by the Delaware River and Warren County, New Jersey. The Lehigh Valley is about 40 miles (64 km) long and 20 miles (32 km) wide. The Lehigh Valley's largest city is Allentown, the third-largest city in Pennsylvania and the county seat of Lehigh County, with a population of 125,845 residents as of the 2020 census.
WFMZ-TV is an independent television station in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States. Locally-based Maranatha Broadcasting Company owns both WFMZ-TV and Wilmington, Delaware–licensed MeTV affiliate WDPN-TV. The two stations share studios on East Rock Road on South Mountain in Allentown, where WFMZ-TV's transmitter is located. WFMZ-TV also maintains a secondary studio in the PPL Center sports arena in Center City Allentown and a newsroom on Court Street in Reading.
WPPT is a PBS member television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is owned by Lehigh Valley Public Media alongside Allentown-licensed fellow PBS member WLVT-TV. As WYBE, the station's transmitter was located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia; in 2018, it entered into a channel sharing agreement with Allentown-based independent station WFMZ-TV and began operating from WFMZ's transmitter on South Mountain near Allentown.
WBPH-TV is a religious independent television station in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, serving the Lehigh Valley and the Philadelphia television market. The station is owned by Sonshine Family Television. WBPH-TV's studios are located in Allentown, and its transmitter is located on South Mountain in Salisbury Township.
WLEV is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Allentown, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Cumulus Media, Inc, through licensee Radio License Holding CBC LLC, and broadcasts an adult contemporary music radio format.
South Mountain is a colloquial name applied to an Appalachian Mountain range extending north and northeast along the south side of Lebanon Valley to the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. South Mountain includes the southernmost cluster of peaks that straddle Berks, Lancaster, and Lebanon counties and the northernmost end of the ridge on which Lehigh University is built, in Bethlehem in the Lehigh Valley.
Summit Lawn is a small unincorporated village that is located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Lehigh Valley, which has a population of 861,899 and is the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.
The Lehigh Valley IronPigs are a Minor League Baseball team of the International League (IL) and the Triple-A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies. They are located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and they are named in reference to pig iron, used in the manufacturing of steel, for which the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania is well known. The IronPigs play their home games at Coca-Cola Park in Allentown.
The history of professional baseball in Allentown, Pennsylvania dates back 138 years, starting with the formation of the Allentown Dukes in 1884 and continuing through the present with its hosting of the Allentown-based Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the Triple-A Minor League affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball, who play at Coca-Cola Park on the city's East Side.
Hamilton Street is a major thoroughfare and historic street in the Center City section of Allentown, Pennsylvania. The street dates back to 1762, when Allentown's founder, William Allen, included it as one of the first of several streets to be constructed in the city.
The Liberty Bell Museum, also the Liberty Bell Shrine Museum was a non-profit organization and museum located in Zion's United Church of Christ, formerly Zion's Reformed Church, in Allentown, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. The museum was located in the basement of the church, where the Liberty Bell, an iconic and globally-recognized symbol of America's independence and freedom, was hidden from the British Army by Allentown-area American patriots during the American Revolutionary War from September 1777 to June 1778.
The culture of Allentown, Pennsylvania dates back to the early 18th century settlement of the city and the surrounding Lehigh Valley, which was then part of the Province of Pennsylvania, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, by German immigrants almost exclusively affiliated the Lutheran, Moravian, and Reformed faiths, three of the most prominent Protestant denominations.
The PPL Center is an 8,500-seat capacity indoor sports arena in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It opened on September 10, 2014. It is the home arena for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms of the American Hockey League, the primary development hockey team for the Philadelphia Flyers. The arena also hosts major concerts, sports, and entertainment events throughout the year.
Bieber Transportation Group was an American bus company based in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, operating intercity commuter buses, charter buses, and tours. The company provided bus service from the Reading and Lehigh Valley regions of eastern Pennsylvania to Philadelphia and New York City. The company was founded by Carl R. Bieber in 1946. Bieber ended operations on February 8, 2019.
Allentown was a train station in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was opened by the Lehigh Valley Railroad in 1890 and closed in 1961. The building was demolished in 1972. The station was located one block west of the Central Railroad of New Jersey's Allentown station.
WFMZ-TV, UHF analog channel 67, was an independent television station licensed to Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States, which broadcast from December 4, 1954, to April 15, 1955. Owned by the Penn-Allen Broadcasting Company, it was sister to radio station WFMZ. WFMZ-TV failed due to economic issues inherent in early UHF broadcasting and the availability of network-affiliated stations from Philadelphia.
