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WHTM-TV, virtual channel 27 (VHF digital channel 10), is the ABC-affiliated television station serving the Susquehanna Valley region of south-central Pennsylvania, licensed to Harrisburg. The station is owned by Media General. WHTM maintains studio facilities located on North 6th Street in Harrisburg (although with a Hoffman Street address), and its transmitter is located on the ridge north of I-81 along the Cumberland and Perry County line. On cable, the station is available on Comcast cable channel 9 and in high definition on digital channel 807, and is also available via Verizon FiOS, DirecTV and Dish Network. ==History== The station first signed on the air on July 6, 1953 as WTPA (standing for Television PennsylvaniA), operating as an NBC affiliate. WTPA was founded by the Newhouse family, whose media holdings eventually became Advance Publications, and was operated alongside Harrisburg's two major newspapers, ''The Patriot'' and ''The Evening News'' (since merged as ''The Patriot-News''). The following year, it switched affiliations to ABC. It originally operated on UHF channel 71, but later moved to channel 27 in 1957, after that channel's original occupant, WCMB-TV, ceased operations. During WTPA's first year on the air, the station broadcast from 9:00 a.m. to 12:15 a.m. on weekdays and from noon to midnight on weekends. Early local programs included a midday religious program ''Daily Devotions'', music and comedy-focused variety program ''Mac's Matinee'', daytime talk show ''Harrisburg Hostess'', cooking show ''Look What's Cooking'' and ''Susquehanna Trail''. The Times Mirror Company acquired the Newhouse television stations (including WTPA) in 1980 and changed its call sign to the current WHTM-TV. The station was sold, along with then-sister station WETM-TV in Elmira, New York, to Smith Broadcasting Company in 1986. WHTM, in turn, was sold to Price Communications in 1994. Allbritton Communications acquired the station in 1996. An ice storm that hit South Central Pennsylvania on December 15 and 16, 2007 knocked out the power to WHTM's transmitter site, which also affected the reception of the station on some cable and satellite providers. WHTM's signal began operating at full power once again on the morning of December 18.〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=December 17, 2007 ) 〕 Feature reporter Chuck Rhodes served as a minor cast member in the 2000 film ''Lucky Numbers'', which was based loosely on the 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal and starred John Travolta as a cash lacking meteorologist, whose biggest competition in Harrisburg was Rhodes (the real-life incident occurred in Pittsburgh). On November 30, 2015, WHTM 27.2 replaced RetroTV with ION Television. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WHTM-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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