However, it built its digital transmitter in Pittsburgh's Perry North section, on some of the highest ground in the city. The channel move also brought a transmitter power increase to 215,000 watts visual, and 21,500 watts aural. WNPB 24 (PBS) The network launched on September 18, 2006. But it was not to be, as the station was so heavily in debt by this time and its owners were unable to formulate a reorganization plan that would allow the station to return to the air and emerge from bankruptcy protection. Add a photo to this gallery This article is within the scope of WikiProject Pittsburgh, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Pittsburgh and its metropolitan area on Wikipedia. To solve this problem, Venture asked and received permission to move WTWB-TV's license to Jeannette (about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Pittsburgh) and place it in that market. On April 20, 1981, the station's call sign was changed to WPXI (for "Pittsburgh 11", with XI being the Roman numeral for 11). WQED 13 is the local Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) station in Pittsburgh. On June 12, 2009, coinciding with the national transition to digital television, WPCW turned off its transmitter near Jennerstown and began broadcasting its digital signal from its new transmitter in Pittsburgh. KDKA-TV, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 25), is a CBS owned-and-operated television station licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of ViacomCBS, as part of a duopoly with Jeannette-licensed CW owned-and-operated station WPCW (channel 19). Owner WPCW; Jeannette/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Branding: Pittsburgh's CW (general) KDKA on The CW (newscasts): Slogan: TV to talk about. In fact, Johnstown viewers got better signals from WFBG-TV (channel 10) in Altoona and KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on virtual and VHF channel 8 from a transmitter along U.S. 30/Lincoln Highway, in … It was co-owned by Central Broadcasting through its Rivoli Realty subsidiary along with WARD radio (1490 AM, now WNTJ, and 92.1 FM, now WJHT). By way of extended cable coverage, WPCW also served as the default CW affiliate for the Johnstown–Altoona–State College television market, until WJAC-TV's September 16, 2019[1] conversion of its fourth digital subchannel into a CW+ affiliate (known as Alleghenies CW6), as that area lacked a CW affiliate of its own until then. WNPA began to identify on air as "UPN Pittsburgh" in late 2003 due to the fact that various cable providers in the area carry the station on different channels. Jeannette, Pennsylvania The two stations share studios at the Gateway Center in downtown Pittsburgh; WPCW's transmitter is located in the Perry North section of Pittsburgh. WPCW Explore Wikis; Community Central; Start a Wiki; Search This wiki This wiki All wikis | Sign In Don't have an account? Slogan Crosby addressed this by signing on a VHF translator (W12BR) in Altoona. The radio stations moved to the Benshoff Hill location in 1977, after the Franklin Street studios were destroyed in a massive flood. David Smith and Lee Mack (the former had been program director of WJNL Radio) served as the station's booth announcers. The very few locally produced programs WFAT now had left were limited to discussion-based talk shows on simple, undecorated sets with little more than chairs and carpet. Stub This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the project's quality scale. Previously, Pam worked as a TV anchor for WYTV-TV Youngstown, where she anchored the 5, 6 and 11 PM news. The station changed calls to WPTJ in 1988 and moved its studios to Allen Bill Drive in the Johnstown Industrial Park, but saw no change in its fortunes. Meanwhile, over in Pittsburgh, WBPA-LP on analog UHF channel 29 signed on in 1994 as a low-powered station owned by Venture Technologies Group, LLC.