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WTVE, virtual channel 51 (UHF digital channel 25), is an independent television station serving the Delaware Valley region that is licensed to Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by NRJ TV, LLC. WTVE maintains studios on North 11th Street, and its transmitter is located on Skyline Drive in Reading. ==History== The station first signed on the air on May 4, 1980.〔http://www.wtve.com/WTVEhistory.htm 〕 When it launched, WTVE initially maintained a general entertainment format with a mix of off-network sitcoms from the 1960s and early 1970s, movies, drama series and talk shows, as well as a local newscast. However, the station did not carry many cartoons. While the station received sizeable viewership, it was not profitable. Beginning in September 1981, WTVE began running the subscription television service SelecTV, which aired feature films just finished with their theatrical runs, each evening from 8 to 10 p.m. By January 1982, SelecTV programming expanded to 8 p.m. to midnight. That spring, the station began running SelecTV from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. on weekdays and from 3 p.m. to 5 a.m. on weekends. In the fall of 1982, WTVE added Financial News Network programming each weekday from noon to 5 p.m., and began carrying religious programs on Saturday and Sunday mornings. WTVE switched to SelectTV programming after 6 p.m. weekdays and after noon on weekends. By the fall of 1983, WTVE was running SelecTV full-time, with the exception of weekday broadcasts of ''The 700 Club'' and the ''Independent Network News'', along with other religious and public affairs shows on Saturday and Sunday mornings. SelecTV was dropped in the late 1980s, and was replaced with home shopping programming from Shop at Home and infomercials. In 1998, WTVE affiliated with the Spanish-language Telemundo network, before switching back to an English-language format after a year. WTVE's primary analog transmitter (prior to the digital transition) was located in Reading; the analog signal barely reached the Philadelphia suburbs and Lebanon, in the eastern part of the Harrisburg market. As a result, WTVE depended heavily on "must-carry" rules to reach viewers in the Philadelphia market on cable. WTVE at one point had a repeater in Philadelphia on channel 7; that station now operates independently as WWJT-LP. WTVE had been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, managed by trustee George Miller〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=FCC OKs SALE OF BANKRUPT PHILLY STATION, TVNEWSDAY, May 15, 2008 )〕 until its $13.5M takeover by WRNN-TV Associates received FCC approval on May 15, 2008. WRNN-TV Associates subsequently sold the station to NRJ TV (a company unrelated to European broadcaster NRJ Radio) in 2011. 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「WTVE」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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