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WJAL
WJAL (channel 68) is a television station licensed to Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, serving the Washington, D.C., area as an affiliate of Merit TV. Owned by Entravision Communications, it is sister station, sister to Washington-licensed LATV affiliate WMDO-CD (channel 47). WJAL shares transmitter facilities with CBS affiliate WUSA (TV), WUSA (channel 9) on Wisconsin Avenue in the Tenleytown section of northwest Washington. History As a Hagerstown station Owned by Good Companion Broadcasting, a Christian non-profit organization, WJAL first broadcast on August 1, 1984, originally licensed to Hagerstown, Maryland, as that city's third television station (after WHAG-TV and WWPB). By virtue of being licensed to Hagerstown, which placed it in the Washington, D.C. television market, WJAL was the fourth independent station in that market (after WTTG, WDCA, and WDCW, WCQR) and the first based outside the city proper. However, WJAL's offices were located in Chambersburg, Pennsyl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WUSA (TV)
WUSA (channel 9) is a television station in Washington, D.C., affiliated with CBS. It is the Flagship (broadcasting), flagship property of Tegna Inc., which is based in suburban McLean, Virginia. WUSA's studios and transmitter are at Broadcast House on Wisconsin Avenue in northwest Washington's Tenleytown neighborhood. Among CBS affiliates not owned and operated by the network, WUSA is the third-largest by market size (after Gray Television's WANF in Atlanta and Tegna's KHOU in Houston). The station's signal is relayed on a low-power broadcasting#Television, low-power digital Broadcast relay station#Translator stations, translator station, W27EI-D, in Moorefield, West Virginia (which is owned by Valley TV Cooperative). It has a channel-sharing agreement with Silver Spring, Maryland–licensed WJAL (channel 68, owned by Entravision Communications). History Early years (1949–1978) The station first went on the air on January 11, 1949, as WOIC. It began full-time operations on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMDO-CD
WMDO-CD (channel 47) is a Low-power broadcasting#Television, low-power, Class A television station in Washington, D.C., affiliated with LATV. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside Silver Spring, Maryland–licensed Merit Street affiliate WJAL (channel 68). History The station first signed on the air as W14AA on UHF channel 14 in 1976. First owned by VPM Media Corporation, Central Virginia Educational Television Corporation, it rebroadcast the signal of PBS member station WNVT from a transmitter in Arlington, Virginia. WNVT's transmitter was located in Independent Hill, Virginia, and was difficult to receive in the built-up parts of the Washington metropolitan area. As Washington's original channel 14, WFDC-DT#Prior history of channel 14 in Washington, WFAN-TV, had gone dark in 1972, CVETC attempted to have the vacant full-power allocation moved to Fairfax, Virginia, Fairfax. This stoked controversy, as channel 14 was the last available commercial allocation assign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WDCW
WDCW (channel 50), branded DCW 50, is a television station in Washington, D.C., serving as the local outlet for The CW. It is owned and operated by network majority owner Nexstar Media Group alongside Hagerstown, Maryland–licensed independent station WDVM-TV (channel 25); the two stations share studios on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington's Glover Park neighborhood. Through a channel sharing agreement with Univision station WFDC-DT (channel 14), WDCW transmits using WFDC's spectrum from a tower in the Tenleytown area of Washington's Northwest quadrant. The station began broadcasting in November 1981 as WCQR, culminating a 17-year struggle to get the station on air that included the death of the original permittee, bankruptcy, and years in the FCC's comparative hearing process. The station launched primarily as a vehicle for subscription television (STV) programming from Super TV, which served the Washington and Baltimore areas. After the station was sold in 1985, it became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entravision Communications
Entravision Communications Corporation is an American media company based in Santa Monica, California. Entravision primarily caters to the Spanish language in the United States, Spanish-speaking Hispanic and Latino Americans, Hispanic community and owns television and radio stations and outdoor media, in several of the top Hispanic markets. It is the largest affiliate group of the Univision and UniMás television networks. Entravision also owns a small number of American English, English-language television and radio stations. History On August 4, 2006, Entravision sold five of its radio stations in the Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth area to Liberman Broadcasting. On May 16, 2008, the company sold its outdoor media division, whose operations were primarily based in New York City, New York and Los Angeles, to Lamar Advertising Company. In 2007, Entravision Communications Corporation acquired Spanish-language radio station WNUE-FM serving the Orlando, Florida, market from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Station
An independent station is a broadcast station, usually a television station, not affiliated with a larger broadcast television network, network. As such, it only broadcasts broadcast syndication, syndicated programs it has purchased; brokered programming, brokered programming, for which a third party pays the station for airtime; and local programs that it produces itself. In North American and Japanese television, independent stations with general entertainment formats emerged as a distinct class of station because their lack of network affiliation led to unique strategies in program content, scheduling, and promotion, as well as different economics compared to major network affiliates. The Big Three (American television), Big Three networks in the United States — American Broadcasting Company, ABC, CBS, and NBC — traditionally provided a substantial number of program hours per day to their affiliates, whereas later network startups—Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox, UPN, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuscarora Mountain
Tuscarora Mountain is a mountain ridge of the Appalachian Mountains in the Ridge and Valley province in central Pennsylvania. It reaches its highest point on Big Mountain (Pennsylvania) at above sea level. The mountain is named after the Tuscarora people. The mountain runs from northeast to southwest, extending from the Juniata River at Millerstown in the north to the end of Cove Mountain at Cowans Gap in the south. Part of it forms the border between Fulton and Franklin counties. Much of Pennsylvania State Game Lands 124 lies on Tuscarora Mountain. Just north of Cowans Gap, the Pennsylvania Turnpike traverses the ridge through the Tuscarora Mountain Tunnel. Geologically, the mountain is held up by the Tuscarora Formation The Silurian Tuscarora Formation — also known as Tuscarora Sandstone or Tuscarora Quartzite — is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia, US. Description The Tuscarora is a thin- to thick-bedded fine-gra . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harrisburg
Harrisburg ( ; ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the Commonwealth (U.S. state), U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat, seat of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Dauphin County. With a population of 50,099 as of 2020 United States census, 2020, Harrisburg is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, ninth-most populous city in Pennsylvania. It is the larger of the two principal cities of the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area, also known as the Susquehanna Valley, which had a population of 591,712 in 2020 and is the Pennsylvania metropolitan areas, fourth-most populous metro area in Pennsylvania. Harrisburg is situated on the east bank of the Susquehanna River, southwest of Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown and northwest of Philadelphia. Harrisburg played a role in American history during the American frontier, Westward Migration, the American Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution. During part of the 19th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Chambersburg is a borough in and the county seat of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, Franklin County, in the South Central Pennsylvania, South Central region of Pennsylvania, United States. It is in the Cumberland Valley, which is part of the Great Appalachian Valley, and north of Maryland and the Mason-Dixon line and southwest of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, the state capital. According to the United States Census Bureau, Chambersburg's 2020 population was 21,903. When combined with the surrounding Greene Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, Greene, Hamilton Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, Hamilton, and Guilford Township, Pennsylvania, Guilford Townships, the population of Greater Chambersburg is 66,340 people. The Chambersburg, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area includes surrounding Franklin County, and in 2010 included 149,618 people. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, Chambersburg Borough is the thirteenth-larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwest Washington
Northwest (NW or N.W.) is the northwestern quadrant of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and is located north of the National Mall and west of North Capitol Street. It is the largest of the four quadrants of the city (NW, NE, SW and SE), and it includes the central business district, the Federal Triangle, and the museums along the northern side of the National Mall, as well as many of the District's historic neighborhoods. Politically, Northwest is made up of parts of Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, with Wards 1 and 3 being the only wards located entirely within the quadrant. The Northwest is the wealthiest quadrant of the city, particularly west of 16th Street. Demographics The population of Northwest is 340,531, based on the data collected in the latest U.S. Census Bureau release. The population is 48.33% male, and 51.67% female. There are 146,397 households, with 57,445 being family households, and 88,951 being non-family households. Geography Northwest Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTTG
WTTG (channel 5) is a television station in Washington, D.C., serving as the market's Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox network outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside MyNetworkTV station WDCA (channel 20). WTTG and WDCA share studios on Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda, Maryland. Through a channel sharing agreement, the stations transmit using WTTG's spectrum from a tower also located in Bethesda on Maryland Route 190, River Road at the site of WDCA's former studio facilities. WTTG's signal is rebroadcast on a low-power broadcasting#Television, low-power digital Broadcast relay station#Translator station, translator station, W24ES-D, in Moorefield, West Virginia (which is owned by Valley TV Cooperative, Inc.). History Early years (1945–1958) The station traces its history to May 19, 1945, when television set and equipment manufacturer Allen B. DuMont founded W3XWT, the second experimental station in the nation's capital (after NBC's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Market
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area (DMA), television market area, or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same (or similar) television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media such as newspapers and internet content. They can coincide with or overlap with one or more metropolitan areas, though rural regions with few significant population centers can also be designated as markets. Conversely, very large metropolitan areas can sometimes be subdivided into multiple segments. Market regions may overlap, meaning that people residing on the edge of one media market may be able to receive content from other nearby markets. They are widely used in audience measurements, which are compiled in the United States by Nielsen Media Research. Nielsen has measured both television and radio audiences since its acquisition of Arbitron, which was completed in September 2013. Markets are identified by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
