WLVT-TV

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WLVT-TV
WLVT-TV 2003.svg
City Allentown, Pennsylvania
Channels
BrandingPBS 39
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
  • Lehigh Valley Public Media
  • (Lehigh Valley Public Telecommunications Corp.)
WPPT
History
First air date
September 7, 1965(59 years ago) (1965-09-07)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 39 (UHF, 1965–2009)
  • Digital: 62 (UHF, 2003–2009), 39 (UHF, 2009–2018) [2]
NET (1965–1970)
Call sign meaning
 Lehigh Valley Television
Technical information [3]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 36989
ERP 80.6 kW
HAAT 332.5 m (1,091 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 40°33′52″N75°26′24″W / 40.56444°N 75.44000°W / 40.56444; -75.44000
Links
Public license information
Website wlvt.org

WLVT-TV (channel 39) is a PBS member television station in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States. Owned by Lehigh Valley Public Media, it is a sister station to Philadelphia-licensed PBS member WPPT (channel 35). WLVT-TV's studios are located in the south side of Bethlehem, and its transmitter is located south of nearby Allentown atop South Mountain.

Contents

History

20th century

The station first signed on the air on September 7, 1965, [4] as a member station of National Educational Television (NET), and eventually joined PBS upon its 1970 founding. WLVT-TV is commonly known as "PBS39", a reference to the main virtual channel, 39.1.

The Lehigh Valley is part of the Philadelphia market, the fourth-largest television market in the United States. WLVT has expanded its programming focus to the entire Philadelphia television market. It is carried by many cable providers in the area, including Comcast, Service Electric, RCN, Blue Ridge Cable, and others. WLVT-TV is also available throughout the region on Philadelphia's DirecTV and Dish Network feeds.

WLVT's market is one of the largest potential audiences in the country with 6.7 million people in eastern Pennsylvania, western and southern New Jersey, and northern and central Delaware. The station's frequently competes with Philadelphia's main PBS member station, WHYY-TV (channel 12), one of the most-watched PBS stations in the country. To a lesser extent, WLVT-TV also competes with NJ PBS's two outlets in the market, WNJT-TV and WNJS-TV.

21st century

In 2011, WLVT-TV moved from its longtime studio on Mountain Drive North to a new studio facility, PPL Public Media Center, on the south side of Bethlehem. The new facility is adjacent to the ArtsQuest complex on the SteelStacks Campus, previously home to Bethlehem Steel. [5] The new station is equipped with two large studios, where local productions, including Focus (a local magazine show), You Bet Your Garden (formerly on WHYY-FM), Scholastic Scrimmage , Faces of Jazz, and Behind the Guitar, are filmed.

WLVT also broadcasts PBS and American Public Television distributed programming.

Technical information

Subchannels

Subchannels of WBPH-TV, WPPT, WLVT-TV, and WFMZ-TV [6]
License Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
WBPH-TV60.1 720p 16:9 WBPH-D1Lighthouse TV
60.2 480i WBPH-D2 Radiant TV
WPPT35.139EXTRA PBS
35.2WORLD World
WLVT-TV39.1720pWLVT-DTPBS
39.2480iCREATE Create
39.3FRAN24 France 24
WFMZ-TV69.1720pWFMZ-HD Independent
69.2480iWFMZ-WCLocal weather
69.3 WFMZ-ME MeTV (WDPN-TV)
  Simulcast of subchannels of another station

Analog-to-digital conversion

WLVT shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 39, on January 31, 2009. The station's digital signal relocated on its pre-transition UHF channel 62, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its former analog-era UHF channel 39 for post-transition operations. [7]

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References

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  4. ↑ FCC History Cards for WLVT-TV. Federal Communications Commission.
  5. ↑ "WLVT PBS39 now more public in new location at Bethlehem SteelStacks". July 18, 2011.
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