WLVT-TV

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WLVT-TV
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Allentown / Bethlehem / Easton, Pennsylvania
Branding PBS 39
Channels 39 (UHF) analog,
62 (UHF) digital
Affiliations PBS
Owner Lehigh Valley Public Telecommunications Corporation
Founded September 29, 1965
Call letters meaning WLehigh Valley (Public) Television
or
WLehigh Valley Public Tele-communications
Former affiliations NET (1965-1970)
Website www.wlvt.org/

WLVT-TV is a PBS television station carried on analog channel 39 and digital channel 62. Serving the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania, the station's studios are located in Allentown.

The station signed on September 29, 1965. Its signal, due to cable television, is now carried in Eastern Pennsylvania, western and parts of southern New Jersey and parts of Delaware and New York. Its studio and transmitter are located on Allentown's South Mountain.

WLVT also broadcasts Scholastic Scrimmage, a popular academic quiz show in which Pennsylvania high schools compete against each other.

[edit] History

WLVT-TV signed on September 29, 1965 as an NET affiliate. Its digital signal on channel 62 began transmission in 2000.

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