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WPMT, virtual channel 43 (UHF digital channel 47), is the Fox-affiliated television station serving South Central Pennsylvania. Licensed to York, the station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Media Company. WPMT maintains studio facilities located on South Queen Street in Spring Garden Township (with a York mailing address), and its transmitter is located in Hallam. The station is available on Comcast cable channel 5 and in high definition on digital channel 804. ==History== The station first signed on the air on December 21, 1952 as WSBA-TV, originally operating as an ABC affiliate. It was owned by the Susquehanna Radio Corporation, a subsidiary of the Susquehanna Pfaltzgraff conglomerate, along with radio station WSBA (910 AM). It was one of the first commercially licensed UHF television stations in the United States, signing on the air just over three months after KPTV in Portland, Oregon which originally broadcast on channel 27 when it signed on in 1952, before moving to VHF channel 12 five years later. This makes WPMT the second-oldest continuously broadcasting UHF station in the country, only behind WSBT-TV in South Bend, Indiana (although WSBT moved from its original channel 34 to channel 22 in the late 1950s, making WPMT the oldest UHF station that broadcasts continuously on the same virtual channel number to this day). In 1961, the station became a CBS affiliate and joined the Keystone Network, a regional network that also comprised WHP-TV (channel 21) in Harrisburg and WLYH-TV (channel 15) in Lebanon. The three stations provided a strong combined signal with about 55% overlap. Initially, WHP-TV, WLYH and WSBA aired the same programming. By the late 1960s, while all three stations ran most of the CBS programming schedule, WHP-TV ran different local programming during non-network hours, while WLYH and WSBA continued to simulcast for nearly the entire broadcast day. WHP ran CBS shows that WSBA and WLYH preempted, while the latter two stations ran programming that WHP preempted. All three ran most of the CBS lineup, duplicating over three-quarters of the network's programs. In May 1983, Susquehanna sold WSBA-TV to Idaho-based Mohawk Broadcasting, who changed its call letters to the current WPMT. The station signed off in August and returned to the air the following month as the Susquehanna Valley's second independent station, WGCB-TV (channel 49) in Red Lion signed on the air as the area's first independent station in 1979. WPMT was a typical UHF general entertainment independent featuring cartoons, sitcoms, movies, dramas, sports and westerns. In 1986, Mohawk sold the station to Renaissance Broadcasting. On October 6, 1986, WPMT became one of the charter affiliates of the newly launched Fox network. From 1990 to 2004, WPMT featured original children's programming hosted by the station's mascot, a clown named Pete McTee (a play on the station's call letters). The station was acquired by Tribune Broadcasting following the company's purchase of Renaissance in 1996.〔(Tribune Co. Looks to Boost Role in TV with Offer for Six Stations ), ''Los Angeles Daily News'', July 2, 1996. Retrieved July 20, 2013 from HighBeam Research.〕 A year earlier, WPMT had added programming from The WB, half-owned by Tribune, in off-hours. However, cable customers could watch the full WB schedule on WPHL-TV in Philadelphia. The station's newscasts were seen in a fictional sense in the 2010 film ''Unstoppable'', which is set in the station's market area. 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「WPMT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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