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WJAL
WJAL, "Family 68", is an independent television station serving Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. It is one of only six English-language stations owned by Entravision Communications, a company better known for its ownership of Spanish-language stations across the United States. Despite being licensed to Hagerstown, Maryland, WJAL's offices are located in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania (within the Harrisburg television market), and its transmitter located fifteen miles (24 km) west of Chambersburg, atop Tuscarora Mountain near the town of McConnellsburg.
==History==
The station first broadcast on August 1, 1984, as the third television station in Hagerstown (after WHAG-TV and WWPB), the fourth independent station in the Washington DMA (after WTTG, WDCA, and WCQR), and the first independent in the market outside the core city of Washington. For a time in the late 1990s, WJAL became a WB affiliate.
In 2001, Good Companion Broadcasting, a Christian broadcasting nonprofit organization, sold WJAL-TV to Entravision for $10.3 million. The main impetus of the purchase of WJAL for Entravision has been to attempt to move the station's license to Silver Spring, Maryland and into the Washington, D.C. market as a replacement UniMás affiliate for the low-power WMDO-CD, efforts that as of 2015 have remained unsuccessful; thus it has continued to run a family-friendly English format for Hagerstown, a market with a traditionally low need for a Spanish-language outlet.
During the late hours of January 14, 2009, WJAL's transmitter building caught fire. An automated alarm had tripped at 5:45 p.m. that day, but upon visiting the building, firefighters found no sign of fire. 911 was called about an hour later to report the fire. The transmitter's location on top of Tuscarora Mountain and snow and ice that was occurring made it difficult for firefighters to reach the building. Chainsaws were needed to clear away fallen branches. Two firefighters from McConnellsburg suffered injuries when they slipped on a patch of ice. Both transmitter and building were completely destroyed.〔 〕〔 〕 WJAL returned to the air, via fiber feed to cable companies, within a day of the fire.
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