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ABC affiliate in Scranton, Pennsylvania

Television station in Pennsylvania, United States

WNEP-Goggle box
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Scranton–Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
United states
Urban center Scranton, Pennsylvania
Channels Digital: 21 (UHF)
(shared with WVIA-Telly)
Virtual: 16
Branding WNEP-Tv set 16 (general)
Newswatch 16 (newscasts)
WNEP 16.2 (on DT2)
Programming
Affiliations sixteen.1: ABC
xvi.2: Antenna Idiot box
sixteen.iii: Quest (presently)
Ownership
Possessor Tegna Inc.
(sale to Standard General awaiting[1])
(Tegna Broadcast Holdings, LLC)
History

First air engagement

 September xvi, 1953; 68 years agone  (1953-09-xvi) (WILK-TV)
Feb 1954; 68 years ago  (1954-02) (WARM-TV)
1957; 65 years ago  (1957) (current license)

Onetime call signs

 WILK-TV (1953–1957)
WARM-Tv (1954–1957)

Former channel number(southward)
  • Analog:
  • 34 (UHF, 1953–1957)
  • 16 (UHF, 1954–2009)
  • Digital:
  • 49 (UHF, 2002–2009)
  • fifty (UHF, 2009–2020)

Former affiliations

 NTA (secondary, 1956–1961)

Call sign pregnant

 Northeastern Pennsylvania
Technical information

Licensing authority

 FCC
Facility ID 73318
ERP 760 kW
HAAT 509.2 m (1,671 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 41°10′55″N 75°52′16″Due west  /  41.18194°North 75.87111°W  / 41.18194; -75.87111
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Links

Public license data

Profile
LMS
Website wnep.com

WNEP-Goggle box, virtual channel 16 (UHF digital channel 21), is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Scranton, Pennsylvania, Us, and too serving Wilkes-Barre. The station is endemic by McLean, Virginia–based Tegna Inc. WNEP-Television set'south studios are located on Montage Mountain Road in Moosic, and it shares transmitter facilities with PBS member WVIA-Television receiver (channel 44) at the Penobscot Knob antenna farm near Mountain Top.

WNEP-TV operates a digital replacement translator on UHF channel 22 that is licensed to Waymart with a transmitter in Forest Urban center. It exists considering wind turbines run past NextEra Energy Resources at the Waymart Wind Farm interfere with the manual of full-power television signals.

History [edit]

WILK-Goggle box and WARM-TV [edit]

There were originally two ABC network affiliates in northeastern Pennsylvania. WILK-Television, operating on aqueduct 34 and endemic past WILK radio took to the air from Wilkes-Barre on September 16, 1953.[ii] It was followed past Scranton-licensed WARM-Goggle box, broadcasting on channel 16 and owned by future Governor William Scranton along with WARM radio, in February 1954.[iii] During the late 1950s, WILK-Goggle box was too briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.[4]

WILK wanted to go a head outset on the other local stations when it signed on in 1953, going on the air at 2 p.thousand. rather than the 3 pm sign on that the other stations did. The engineers got the signal gear up by noon and decided to accept a break. However, at lunch, they turned on the station to inspect their handiwork, only to find the signal was dead. They rushed back and were able to found the link by one:50 p.m., ten minutes before sign-on.[5]

Getting a signal from ABC headquarters in New York City was a challenge in the early days with no admission to satellites. Equally a event, WILK set up a microwave tower in Try, most 45 miles (72 km) east of Wilkes-Barre. From at that place, the network signal was bounced to the Penobscot Knob transmitter site. Oftentimes, station engineers had to conform the Effort transmitter to accept a betoken from WFIL-TV (now ABC O&O WPVI-TV) in Philadelphia if they were unable to receive the New York feed.

WILK-TV and WARM-TV were both losing money, in large part because their network, ABC, was not on an equal footing with NBC and CBS (and would not be until the 1970s). However, they stayed on the air because they were owned by well-respected local radio stations.

Merger and transition [edit]

Past 1955, yet, information technology was obvious that Scranton and Wilkes-Barre were going to be a single television set market. In belatedly 1957, WILK-Tv set and WARM-Goggle box agreed to merge into a single ABC station for Northeastern Pennsylvania. The merged station, then every bit now, operated nether WILK-TV's license, but used WARM-Television set'due south aqueduct sixteen in order to provide wider signal coverage at less price—no small consideration given the station's vast and mostly mountainous coverage area. Transcontinent Television Corporation, a Buffalo, New York-based media firm, acquired a lx percent interest in the merged station; the remaining shares were split between the WARM and WILK groups, with William Scranton as chairman.[6] The merged station, WNEP-Telly, was licensed to Scranton, and split operations betwixt WILK-Television receiver's one-time facility in Wilkes-Barre and a new studio in Scranton. In 1962, WNEP-TV consolidated its operations at a new studio near Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport in Avoca. WILK-TV's transmitter site at Penobscot Knob was retained by WNEP-Boob tube, and the WARM-TV transmitter was donated a decade later to the surface area'due south PBS member station, WVIA-TV (channel 44).

Meanwhile, the WILK-Idiot box facility was repurposed as a satellite repeater of WNEP-TV until late summer 1958.[seven] [8] The aqueduct 34 assignment was afterwards reallocated to Binghamton, New York, to be occupied past ABC chapter WBJA-Idiot box (now WIVT) beginning in 1962.[ix] [x]

Despite a power heave to 1.v meg watts, and an increased coverage surface area—expanded to 15 counties in northeastern Pennsylvania[5]—WNEP-Tv bounced back and forth in the ratings for well-nigh of the next two decades. Information technology was never able to accomplish any consistency because of the bitter rivalry between Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. Viewers in Wilkes-Barre thought it was a Scranton station, while viewers in Scranton thought it was a Wilkes-Barre station. It was also hobbled past existence an affiliate of the smallest and weakest network of the time. Indeed, WNEP's launch made Scranton–Wilkes-Barre the smallest market in Pennsylvania with full service from all three networks.

Transcontinent exited broadcasting in 1964 and sold several of its stations, including WNEP-TV, to Taft Broadcasting.[11] [12] When Taft purchased Philadelphia contained station WIBF-Television receiver (channel 29, now WTXF-TV) in 1969,[13] it sought a waiver to go on both stations. Channel 16's Grade B signal reaches the Lehigh Valley, which is part of the Philadelphia market. WNEP-Tv had too operated an outlying translator on channel 7 in Allentown for many years. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) normally did not allow ane company to own two stations with overlapping coverage areas. While it initially granted the waiver, it reversed itself four years later and forced Taft to sell aqueduct 16. A grouping of WNEP-TV station employees and executives formed NEP Communications, which bought the station from Taft in late 1973.[xiv]

Shortly after NEP took over the station, news manager Elden Unhurt decided to take a regional approach. He billed the station as serving "Northeastern and Cardinal Pennsylvania," and stepped up coverage of the remote portions of the market. These areas had largely been ignored by the other stations in boondocks. He also added the area'southward first news helicopter. This approach quickly paid off. In November 1976, WNEP surged to kickoff place for the kickoff time in a decade. Afterwards briefly falling dorsum to second information technology returned to number one in 1978, around the same time ABC became the nation's number i network. Apart from a brief period in the mid 1990s when WBRE-TV passed it, it has been number one ever since. NEP also established a remote production visitor, which operated as an adjunct to WNEP-Television set.

The New York Times Company bought the station in 1985.[15] WNEP moved to its current studios in Moosic in 1989; the facility is similar to the building the Times Company built for then-sister station WHNT-TV in Huntsville, Alabama, but on a larger scale. NEP Communications retained the production unit, which became NEP Broadcasting; the company provided remote broadcast facilities for the Olympics, FIFA World Cup and the Academy Awards, as well every bit a studio production facility in New York City.[16]

On January 4, 2007, the station, along with the rest of the Times Visitor'due south tv set partitioning, was sold to Oak Colina Capital letter Partners in a $575 million transaction. Oak Hill formed Local Television set as a holding company for its stations.[17]

On July 1, 2013, Local TV appear that its nineteen stations would be acquired by the Tribune Company for $2.75 billion;[18] Tribune owns The Morning Call in Allentown. Although Allentown is function of the Philadelphia telly market, WNEP has long claimed the Lehigh Valley as role of its coverage area. The FCC ruled that Tribune could not continue WNEP due to its ban on newspaper-television receiver cross-ownership within a unmarried marketplace, The Morning Call serving a metropolis within WNEP's coverage area (although Tribune has maintained cantankerous-ownership waivers for its newspaper-idiot box station combinations in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and Hartford). Tribune spun off WNEP-TV to Dreamcatcher Dissemination, an unrelated company owned by former Tribune Company executive Ed Wilson.[19] All the same, Tribune will operate the station and provide other services nether a shared services agreement, and volition hold an choice to buy dorsum WNEP outright in the future.[20] The sale was completed on Dec 27.[21] Tribune later appear on July 10, 2013 that it would spin off its newspapers (including The Morning Call) into a separate company, the Tribune Publishing Visitor, in 2014, pending shareholder and regulatory approving.[22] The split was completed in August 2014, though as of yet Tribune has not announced plans to acquire Dreamcatcher outright.

Analog broadcast tower plummet [edit]

WNEP-TV's transmission belfry broadcasting the analog bespeak on channel xvi collapsed on December xvi, 2007, due to severe ice, winds, and snowfall at the transmitter location on Penobscot Knob.[23] The tower collapse also destroyed the transmitter edifice. No one was injured during the incident.[23] WCLH'south FM antenna and transmitter, which was co-located on WNEP'due south analog Television tower, was as well destroyed during the incident.[24] Transmission of the digital signal on channel 49 was restored after a brief break of ability to the tower supporting the digital transmitter and antenna. WNEP's signal on local cablevision systems and satellite was restored later that day. WNEP-Tv partially restored its analog over the air Tv set bespeak by Jan 1, 2008[25] by dissemination from the nearby American Tower on Penobscot Knob supporting the WNEP-DT antenna too as WOLF-TV/DT'south antenna.[26] [27]

Equally the WNEP-TV analog broadcast belfry collapsed on Dec 16, 2007, ane of the falling guy wires supporting the WNEP-TV belfry damaged the neighboring tower broadcasting WVIA-TV (analog and digital) and WVIA-FM by shearing off the top section of the WVIA tower supporting the antenna for the analog and digital Tv signals. The antenna for WVIA-FM remained intact, as information technology is located on the lower section of the shared WVIA-FM-TV tower. The WVIA-TV analog signal on channel 44 was temporarily put off the air until service was restored through a redundancy tower on Penobscot Knob.[28] The plummet of WNEP-Goggle box's analog tower also severed power to the transmitters for CBS affiliate WYOU (channel 22) and NBC affiliate WBRE-Goggle box (channel 28), putting those stations off the air for a time.[29]

On June 12, 2009, WNEP was to operate on a new belfry which had been completed, though the antenna had not arrived in a timely manner. Their goal was to accept the new facility operating past August 2009, only it was delayed a few months.[xxx] On December 5, 2009, WNEP turned off channel 49 and moved to channel fifty. Moving to channel 50 was necessary so information technology could alleviate possible interference from Telemundo O&O WWSI in Atlantic City, New Jersey, which at the time broadcast on UHF channel 49.[31]

On Feb 15, 2010, the channel 49 facility was put dorsum into apply past WNEP on a temporary footing with FCC approval to accommodate WVIA-Tv set, which had suffered a partial tower collapse and electric fire which had destroyed WVIA'due south transmitter building and the equipment within.[32] [33]

Aborted sale to Sinclair Broadcast Grouping [edit]

On May 8, 2017, Sinclair Broadcast Group—which has operated Fox affiliate WOLF-TV (channel 56), CW affiliate WSWB (channel 38) and MyNetworkTV affiliate WQMY (channel 53) since Oct 2014—entered into an understanding to larn Tribune Media for $3.9 billion, plus the assumption of $2.7 billion in debt held by Tribune. The complicated SSA relationships that Sinclair has in the Scranton–Wilkes–Barre market with WOLF, WSWB and WQMY – the former two of which are currently the only legal idiot box duopoly in the market – created an buying entanglement, as WNEP and WOLF rank among the market's four highest-rated stations, and the market has too few independently owned full-power stations to permit a 2nd legal duopoly in whatever event. (Sinclair CEO Christopher Ripley cited Scranton–Wilkes–Barre every bit ane of three markets, out of fourteen where ownership conflicts exist between the 2 groups, where the proposed acquisition would likely upshot in divestitures).[34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] To alleviate some of the regulatory bug that the deal incurred past selling certain stations to both independent and affiliated tertiary-party companies, on April 24, 2018, Sinclair appear that it would sell the not-license assets of WOLF-TV, WQMY, and WSWB and the full assets of eight other stations – Sinclair-operated KOKH-TV in Oklahoma City, WRLH-TV in Richmond, KDSM-Television in Des Moines and WXLV-TV in Greensboro/Winston-Salem/Loftier Point, and Tribune-owned WPMT in Harrisburg and WXMI in Grand Rapids – to Standard Media Group (an independent broadcast holding visitor formed by private equity firm Standard General to presume buying of and absolve ownership conflicts involving the aforementioned stations) for $441.ane million. Sinclair concurrently exercised its selection to buy WOLF-TV and WQMY to allow Standard Media Group – the latter of which, for regulatory purposes, would have continued to be licensed every bit a satellite of WOLF-Tv set – to larn the stations outright; Standard would meantime acquire the WOLF-Idiot box license, which is permitted under FCC ownership regulations equally WSWB is not ranked every bit one of the top-iv stations in the market.[40] [41] [42] [43] [44]

On July xviii, 2018, the FCC voted to have the Sinclair–Tribune acquisition reviewed by an administrative law guess amongst "serious concerns" about Sinclair'due south forthrightness in its applications to sell certain conflict backdrop.[45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] Three weeks subsequently on August 9, Tribune announced it would terminate the Sinclair bargain, intending to seek other M&A opportunities. Tribune likewise filed a breach of contract lawsuit in the Delaware Chancery Court, alleging that Sinclair engaged in protracted negotiations with the FCC and the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Partition over regulatory issues, refused to sell stations in markets where it already had properties, and proposed divestitures to parties with ties to Sinclair executive chair David D. Smith that were rejected or highly subject to rejection to maintain command over stations it was required to sell.[51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56]

Sale to Nexstar Media Group and resale to Tegna Inc. [edit]

On December 3, 2018, Irving, Texas-based Nexstar Media Group—which has endemic NBC affiliate WBRE-Tv set since 1997 and operated CBS affiliate WYOU-TV since 1996 (running the latter through a shared services understanding with Mission Dissemination since 1998 later selling the license to larn WBRE through a grandfathered LMA)—announced it would acquire the assets of Tribune Media for $6.4 billion in cash and debt. Nexstar was precluded from acquiring WNEP directly or indirectly, equally FCC regulations prohibit common ownership of more than two stations in the same media market, or two or more of the four highest-rated stations in the market. (Furthermore, any attempt past Nexstar to assume the operations of WNEP through local marketing or shared services agreements would have been subject to regulatory hurdles that could have delayed completion of the FCC and Justice Section'south review and approval process for the acquisition.) Equally such, Nexstar was required to sell either WNEP or both WBRE and WYOU (separately equally it would break the grandfathered LMA) to separate, unrelated companies to accost the ownership disharmonize. On January 31, 2019, Nexstar appear that WNEP, along with WTKR in Norfolk, Virginia and WGNT in Portsmouth, Virginia would be sold to independent third parties in order to address ownership conflicts involving existing Nexstar properties in both markets.[57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] On March 20, 2019, McLean, Virginia-based Tegna Inc. announced information technology would purchase WNEP from Nexstar upon consummation of the merger, every bit part of the visitor's sale of nineteen Nexstar- and Tribune-operated stations to Tegna and the Due east. W. Scripps Company (the latter of which would acquire New York City's WPIX) in separate deals worth $one.32 billion; along with Harrisburg sister station WPMT (which volition also be acquired by Tegna as part of the spin-offs), this would brand WNEP among the get-go television receiver properties in Pennsylvania for Tegna.[68] [69] The sale was approved by the FCC on September 16, and would somewhen be completed three days later.[70] [71]

Local programming [edit]

Many of the programs aired on WNEP take been in-house productions rather than syndicated shows. The most popular of these was a children'southward programme called The Land of Hatchy Milatchy.[72] [73] I of the hosts during its long run, Miss Judy (who replaced original host Nancy Berg in the 1960s), would tell children where to find their birthday gift live on the air. The testify was used as the basis for an episode of the Goggle box series The Office. In the Function episode, as a child Michael Scott was on a show called Fundle Bundle. It was the 18th episode of the 2nd season and was written by Mindy Kaling. In Fundle Bundle, Miss Judy was called Miss Trudy.

Another program, Uncle Ted's Ghoul Schoolhouse, in one case employed Bill O'Reilly every bit a writer. He was also a reporter at the station for a cursory period during the mid-1970s. WNEP also served as the local affiliate for the Bowling for Dollars and Dialing for Dollars formats, producing local versions of each.

Today, WNEP produces ii in-house programs: Pennsylvania Outdoor Life, a show about hunting and fishing in Pennsylvania, and Home & Backyard, a show about do-information technology-yourself abode improvements, cooking and gardening. Pennsylvania Outdoor Life airs Sundays at 11:00 a.thou. and Domicile & Backyard airs Saturdays at 10:00 a.m. on WNEP. The station also participates in several local charity events, including the MDA Labor Day Telethon (which ended in 2014) and Scranton'south annual Santa Parade.

News functioning [edit]

WNEP-Television receiver presently broadcasts 41 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6½ hours each weekday, four½ hours on Saturdays and iv hours on Sundays).

The station is best known for its local newscasts which are amid the highest rated in the Usa.[74] It runs their newscasts nether the branding of Newswatch 16. WNEP has led the ratings in northeastern Pennsylvania for most of the last 40 years and according to Nielsen data attracts more viewers than the other stations in the market combined. In 2000, the weekday morning program earned shares betwixt fifty and 60 meaning that 50 to 60% of televisions in the market were tuned to this station. Their on-air personalities are well known in the area. Chief Meteorologist Tom Clark had been with the station since 1981 and was one of the region's nigh popular broadcasters. He retired, and his final broadcast was on December 31, 2016. His wife Noreen, who was a meteorologist for the weekend news, had been with the station since 1982. She retired in April 2018. Marisa Shush, a native of nearby Danville, had been with the station since 1984 and solo anchored the noon news and co-anchored the weeknight 6 o'clock newscast with Scott Schaffer. She retired from WNEP on October 28, 2016.[75]

Similar most stations at the time, WNEP aired local news at 6pm and 11pm. It added a apex newscast, titled at first Midday 16, offset January 12, 1981. A half-hour 5pm newscast was added in September 1987, chirapsia WYOU-TV'southward 5:thirty p.m. "Beginning News" as the earliest evening option for news.

Fox requested almost of its affiliates to air local news in 1990. However, area Fox affiliate WOLF-Idiot box (and so channel 38) did not have a studio big enough for an in-firm news department. To satisfy this, WNEP began producing a nightly 10 o'clock newscast on WOLF-TV in 1991, known as Newswatch 16 at ten on Fox 38. When the Fox affiliation moved from aqueduct 38 to aqueduct 56, the x o'clock news switched stations besides. It so became known as Play a joke on 56 News at ten with a secondary title of Newswatch 16 at 10 on Fox 56. WNEP aired this broadcast from a secondary gear up at its studios.

The station runs a secondary service, known every bit "WNEP 2" (formerly "Newswatch 16 Anytime" and earlier that "Newswatch xvi on Adelphia 63"), on its second digital subchannel and area cable systems. This channel currently airs Antenna Telly programming along with other local programming. WNEP was the only media outlet in the marketplace to utilize a helicopter, known as "Skycam 16", for news gathering purposes. The helicopter was operational from 1984 until existence decommissioned in February 2009.[76] The station arrogance the Pennsylvania Lottery televised nighttime drawings live seven nights a calendar week, Mega Millions drawing Tuesdays and Fridays, and the live Powerball drawing on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

In March 2009, its weekday morn news at 6 added another two hours (seven–nine a.m.) seen on WNEP 2. Also in March, the station started up-converting its news programs to 720p widescreen format becoming the first 1 in the surface area to make such a alter. WNEP announced on August vi, 2009 that they would brainstorm broadcasting a 4:00 p.m. newscast on September viii, known as Newswatch sixteen at 4. In November 2009, afterwards being unable to achieve an understanding with WNEP on a contract extension, WOLF announced its intention to plough to WBRE to produce an 60 minutes-long 10 p.m. newscast beginning Jan ane, 2010. WNEP then announced that it would begin a ten:00 p.thousand. newscast on WNEP2 on the aforementioned date.

On February x, 2011, starting with the four p.m. newscast, WNEP premiered a new HD-ready set (newscasts remained in widescreen standard definition). On July ix, 2011, WNEP began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition starting with the 6 p.m. newscast, becoming the first station in the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre market to brainstorm offering local newscasts in high definition. In early September 2011, WNEP expanded its 4 pm newscast to a full hour with an boosted half-hr at 4:30 p.thou.

Since 1994, the station has used an updated version of Al Ham'southward "Motion Closer to Your World", which is composed by Cliff Schwarz. From 1979 to 1994, the station used the original theme, which is currently used by ABC O&O WPVI-TV in Philadelphia. Post-obit its purchase past Tegna, a Change.org petition was started request viewers to sign the petition to enquire Tegna non to drop the vocal in favor of Tegna's proprietary "C Clarity" theme.[77] [78] On March 4, 2020, the station began using Tegna's standardized news graphics just retained the Schwarz version of "Move Closer to Your World" as its theme as opposed to using "C Clarity", seen somewhat as a compromise.[79]

Notable old on-air staff [edit]

  • Neb O'Reilly – reporter (1970s); sometime host of The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel
  • Dan Patrick – reporter (1970s); later became sportscaster with KHOU in Houston; now Lieutenant Governor of Texas

In pop culture [edit]

A live interview by WNEP reporter Sofia Ojeda (now with Houston NBC affiliate KPRC-TV) on Baronial 1, 2014 at the Wayne County Fair fabricated a social-media sensation of 5-year-onetime Noah Ritter.[80] [81] WNEP's video was later "songified" by The Gregory Brothers into the song "Apparently."[82]

John Oliver from HBO'southward Final Calendar week Tonight with John Oliver mentioned the conflict of viewers over the station'due south calibration model train set in the background of its weather deck and garden (including 'agree/disagree' comments on the station's viewer annotate line, which air in the newscasts' Talkback 16 segment). This resulted in the show building a larger-scale train set for the station with the landmarks of Scranton and the surrounding area exaggerated. Though the station accepted information technology, it proved to be too big for the weather deck/garden, and was donated to Scranton's Electric Metropolis Trolley Museum for display beginning in tardily September 2017, with some modifications (including its tunnel now beingness presented as John Oliver's rima oris broad open rather than that of surface area native P. J. Carlesimo).[83]

Technical information [edit]

Subchannels [edit]

The station's digital betoken is multiplexed:

Aqueduct Video Aspect Brusk name Programming[84]
16.one 720p 16:9 WNEP-Television receiver Master WNEP-Television receiver programming / ABC
sixteen.2 480i WNEP2 Antenna Tv

The station became a charter affiliate of Antenna Television set upon its launch on Jan 1, 2011. The network is carried on digital subchannel 16.2, replacing RTV on that subchannel.[85]

Analog-to-digital conversion [edit]

WNEP-TV shut down its analog betoken, over UHF channel sixteen, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which total-ability boob tube stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF aqueduct 49.[86] Through the use of PSIP, digital boob tube receivers brandish the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 16.

Translators [edit]

WNEP serves one of the largest coverage areas east of the Mississippi River. This expanse is very mountainous meaning that some areas cannot get a clear indicate from the master transmitter on physical aqueduct 21. As a result, it operates ane of the largest translator systems of any station in the Eastern Time Zone.

W20EI-D and W29EU-D are owned by WVIA but broadcast the full WNEP/WVIA multiplex.

City of license Callsign Channel Founded First air engagement Former callsign(s) Former aqueduct number ERP HAAT Facility ID Transmitter coordinates
Allentown / Bethlehem
(Philadelphia market)		 W07DC-D seven Dec 10, 1984 December 20, 1985; 36 years ago  (1985-12-20) W26AD (1985–1998)
W07DC (1998–2009)		 26 (1985–1998) 0.025 kW 192 m (630 ft) 73325 40°34′20.0″N 75°25′50.0″W  /  40.572222°N 75.430556°W  / forty.572222; -75.430556  (W07DC-D)
Clarks Pinnacle W14CO-D 14 Jan 21, 1982 January 13, 1983; 39 years ago  (1983-01-thirteen) W32AD (1983–1999)
W14CO (1999–2009)		 32 (1983–1999) 0.092 kW 215 m (705 ft) 73326 41°28′01.2″Due north 75°41′10.six″W  /  41.467000°Northward 75.686278°W  / 41.467000; -75.686278  (W14CO-D)
Clarks Summit W29EU-D 29 October 23, 2006 September 23, 2009; 12 years ago  (2009-09-23) W47DH-D (2009–2018) 47 (2009–2018) 0.9 kW 229 m (751 ft) 167207 41°28′01.2″N 75°41′x.vi″W  /  41.467000°North 75.686278°Due west  / 41.467000; -75.686278  (W29EU-D)
Mansfield
(Elmira, New York marketplace)		 W20CP-D 20 January fifteen, 1981 December 28, 1987; 34 years ago  (1987-12-28) W63AB (1987–February 2008)
W20CP (February–November 2008)		 63 (1987–February 2008) 2.3 kW 249 m (817 ft) 49435 41°45′34.two″N 76°55′29.eight″Westward  /  41.759500°Due north 76.924944°Due west  / 41.759500; -76.924944  (W20CP-D)
Mansfield
(Elmira, New York market place)		 W26CV-D 26 January 10, 2003 January six, 2006; 16 years ago  (2006-01-06) W26CV (2006–2009) None 0.098 kW 234 m (768 ft) 129499 41°45′34.two″N 76°55′29.8″W  /  41.759500°N 76.924944°West  / 41.759500; -76.924944  (W26CV-D)
Pottsville W29FQ-D 29 February 23, 1993 February 23, 1993; 29 years ago  (1993-02-23) W61AG (1993–2009)
W28DP-D (2009–2021)		 61 (1993–2009)
28 (2009–2021)		 0.8 kW 113 grand (371 ft) 73327 41°45′34.2″N 76°55′29.8″Westward  /  41.759500°Northward 76.924944°Westward  / 41.759500; -76.924944  (W29FQ-D)
Towanda W10CP-D 10 January 11, 1988 Dec 29, 1989; 32 years ago  (1989-12-29) W08CO (1989–2003)
W10CP (2003–2009)		 8 (1989–2003) 0.066 kW 232 thou (761 ft) 73320 41°twoscore′52.two″N 76°28′53.7″W  /  41.681167°N 76.481583°West  / 41.681167; -76.481583  (W10CP-D)
Towanda W15CO-D 15 February 15, 1989 November thirty, 1989; 32 years ago  (1989-11-thirty) W69CE (1989–2008) 69 (1989–2008) 0.034 kW 240 grand (787 ft) 73326 41°40′52.2″North 76°28′53.7″W  /  41.681167°N 76.481583°W  / 41.681167; -76.481583  (W15CO-D)
Towanda W20EI-D 20 April 26, 1985 May 31, 1989; 32 years ago  (1989-05-31) W25AQ (1989–2009)
W25AQ-D (2009–2020)		 25 (1989–2020) iii.half dozen kW 252 grand (827 ft) 49431 41°41′01.63″N 76°28′58.71″W  /  41.6837861°N 76.4829750°W  / 41.6837861; -76.4829750  (W20EI-D)
Waymart WNEP (DRT) 26 August five, 2020 August 5, 2020; 19 months ago  (2020-08-05) None None 0.3 kW 242 m (794 ft) 73326 41°37′52.seven″N 75°25′30.6″W  /  41.631306°Northward 75.425167°W  / 41.631306; -75.425167  (WNEP (DRT))
Williamsport W20AD-D twenty October half-dozen, 1986 February 27, 1987; 35 years ago  (1987-02-27) W20AD (1987–2009) None 0.056 kW −thirteen m (−43 ft) 73326 41°14′53.ii″N 77°01′56.8″W  /  41.248111°N 77.032444°W  / 41.248111; -77.032444  (W20AD-D)

Former translator [edit]

City of license Callsign Channel Founded First air date Concluding air date One-time callsign(southward) Onetime aqueduct number ERP HAAT Facility ID Transmitter coordinates
Country Higher
(Johnstown/Altoona market)		 W36BE-D 36 April 24, 1990 January ii, 1991 March 21, 2019
(28 years, 78 days)		 W36BE (1991–2009) None 0.205 kW 290 grand (951 ft) 73323 twoscore°43′three.2″N 77°53′29.0″W  /  twoscore.717556°N 77.891389°W  / 40.717556; -77.891389  (W36BE-D)

Out-of-market coverage [edit]

WNEP was carried for many years on the two cable providers in the Lehigh Valley until it was declared function of the Philadelphia (WPVI) market in January 2013. From and so on both Service Electric and RCN decided to driblet WNEP due to the inability to broadcast duplicate programming from two ABC affiliates. Many viewers in the Lehigh Valley now rely on an over-the-air bespeak from WNEP-Tv set'southward Allentown translator.

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