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WOLF-TV is the Fox-affiliated television station for Northeastern Pennsylvania, New York's Eastern Southern Tier and parts of North Jersey that is licensed to Hazleton. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 45 from a transmitter at the Penobscot Knob antenna farm near Mountain Top. Owned by New Age Media as its flagship station and operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group, it is the sister to CW affiliate WSWB and MyNetworkTV affiliate WQMY. All three share studios on PA 315 in the Fox Hill section of Plains Township. ==History== The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted an original construction permit for Hazleton's first full-service television station on September 30, 1982.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Original construction permit )〕 The new station, given the call letters WERF,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Channel 56 call sign changes )〕 was owned by James Oyster and was to broadcast from a tower south of the city.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WERF tower location )〕 At that location, the station could serve its city of license but not the main cities in the market, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. In April 1983, WERF applied to move its transmitter to the Penobscot Knob antenna farm near Mountaintop where WNEP-TV, WDAU-TV (now WYOU), WBRE-TV, and WVIA-TV also had their transmitters. The application was denied, however.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Denied transmitter move application )〕 Oyster changed the station's call letters to WWLF-TV on July 25, 1984〔 then sold the construction permit to Hazleton TV Associates on December 13.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1984 assignment of permit )〕 Two months later on February 20, 1985, the station was sold again this time to Scranton TV Partners who completed construction of the station and brought it on-air on June 6. WWLF was a satellite of co-owned WOLF-TV in Scranton which was then on UHF channel 38 and was an independent station. That station had just began broadcasting itself on June 3. WWLF, as a satellite of WOLF-TV, was independent for a little more than a year. On October 9, 1986, it became a charter affiliate of Fox. In 1988, WWLF moved to a new transmitter on Nescopeck Mountain near the junction of I-80 and PA 93〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1988 transmitter site )〕 but remained a satellite of WOLF-TV. On April 27, 1993, WWLF was sold to Pegasus Television〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sale to Pegasus )〕 and the new owners were able to accomplish something that the station's original owner could not: get permission to move the transmitter to the antenna farm at Penobscot Knob.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1997 transmitter site )〕 The completion of the new transmitter ushered in a new era for WWLF. On November 1, 1998, Pegasus moved the WOLF-TV call sign to channel 56 and made it the sole outlet for Fox programming in Northeast Pennsylvania.〔 It changed the call letters of channel 38 to WSWB and made that station an affiliate of The WB.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Channel 38 call sign changes )〕 That station's owners had sought for many years to move either the channel 38 or channel 56 transmitters to Penobscot Knob. On January 4, 2007, WOLF-TV, along with most of the Pegasus stations, was sold to investment group CP Media, LLC〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sale to CP Media )〕 with the sale consummated on March 31.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sale consummation – CP Media )〕 For the first time in its history, the station was no longer co-owned with WSWB. However, the new owners of that station signed a local marketing agreement (LMA) with CP Media meaning that the stations continue to be commonly operated.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Revised Joint Sales and Shared Services Agreement )〕 Eventually, CP Media formed a new broadcasting group, New Age Media. More recently, WOLF-TV launched a new website using the Fox owned-and-operated station platform licensed from Fox Television Stations' interactive division; this lasted until some time in 2010 or 2011 when WorldNow took over the operation of the WOLF-TV web site. On December 4, 2011 the station's transmitter was damaged and for the next month WOLF-TV was carried on WBRE's channel 28.2 subchannel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.myfoxnepa.com/story/16192347/directtv-or-dish-network-transmission-difficulties )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.myfoxnepa.com/story/16476731/transmission-updates )〕 On September 25, 2013, New Age Media announced that it would sell most of its stations, including WOLF-TV and WQMY, to the Sinclair Broadcast Group. Concurrently, sister station WSWB was to be sold by MPS Media to Cunningham Broadcasting, while continuing to be operated by WOLF-TV. On October 31, 2014, New Age Media requested the dismissal of its application to sell WOLF-TV; the next day, Sinclair purchased the non-license assets of the stations it planned to buy from New Age Media and began operating them through a master service agreement. 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「WOLF-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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