This is a list of broadcast television stations that are licensed in the U.S. state of
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...
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Full-power stations
VC refers to the station's
PSIP
The Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) is the MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group, a video and audio industry group) and privately defined program-specific information originally defined by General Instrument for the DigiCipher 2 system ...
virtual channel
In most telecommunications organizations, a virtual channel is a method of remapping the ''program number'' as used in H.222 Program Association Tables and Program Mapping Tables to a channel number that can be entered as digits on a receiver's ...
. 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
WEEU-TV (channel 33) was a television station in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States, which operated between 1953 and 1955. It was owned by the Hawley Broadcasting Company alongside radio station WEEU (850 AM). The station ceased broadcasting be ...
- 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
Chambersburg is a borough in and the county seat of Franklin County, in the 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 Ma ...
(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 57:
WGLV - ABC/DuMont -
Easton (6/26/1953-11/1/1957)
*Channel 61:
WHUM-TV
WHUM-TV (channel 61) was a television station in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. Owned by Humboldt Greig alongside WHUM (1240 AM), the station—Reading's first—broadcast from 1953 to 1956. It boasted the first ever high-powered UHF tra ...
- CBS - Reading (2/22/1953-9/4/1956)
*Channel 67:
WFMZ-TV
WFMZ-TV (channel 69) 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 sh ...
(original) - Allentown (12/4/1954-4/15/1955)
*Channel 73:
WTVU - Scranton (8/17/1953-7/1/1955)
LPTV
Low-power broadcasting is broadcasting by a broadcast station at a low transmitter power output to a smaller service area than "full power" stations within the same region. It is often distinguished from "micropower broadcasting" (more commonl ...
stations
Translator and Satellite stations
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...
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Television stations
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's s ...