WVPT

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WVPT / WVPY
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WVPT:Staunton/ Harrisonburg, Virginia
WVPY:Front Royal, Virginia
Channels 51 (UHF) / 42 (UHF) analog,
11 (VHF) / 21 (UHF) digital
Translators W50CM Charlottesville
W45AW Fulks Run
W38AV Luray
W08CW Monterey
W58DK Ruckersville
Affiliations PBS
Owner Shenandoah Valley Educational Television Corporation
Founded September 9, 1968
Call letters meaning Western Virginia Public Television
Transmitter Power 3.2 / 50 kW (analog)
525 / 141 kW (digital)
Website www.wvpt.net

WVPT is a public television station in Harrisonburg, Virginia. It is the PBS member station for the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and West Virginia. The station is licensed to Staunton, and is located on the campus of James Madison University in Harrisonburg. It is owned by Shenandoah Valley Educational Television Corporation, along with satellite station WVPY channel 42 in Front Royal, Virginia.

WVPT signed on for the first time on September 9, 1968. WVPY was added in 1996.

WVPY is available over-the-air in portions of Virginia's share of the Washington metropolitan area, while WVPT is available on cable in Lynchburg.

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WVPT is the smallest PBS station licensed to Virginia, but serves one of the largest coverage areas of any PBS member. Its two main transmitters (at 320,000 watts and 50,000 watts, respectively) are not nearly strong enough to serve this vast and mountainous area. As a result, it operates several translators.

The Charlottesville translator was the only over-the-air source of PBS programming in central Virginia until WHTJ signed on in 1989 as a satellite of WCVE-TV in Richmond.

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Broadcast television in the Harrisonburg market area  (Nielsen DMA #181)

WHSV 3 (ABC)(FOX on DT2)(TV 3 Winchester on DT3)(MNTV on DT4) - WAZH-CA 24 / WAZM-CA 25 (TBN) - W28BF 28 (NBC) - WVPT 51 (PBS)
Out-of-market stations serving the area

Washington DC: WRC 4 (NBC) - WTTG 5 (FOX) - WUSA 9 (CBS) - WDCA 20 (MNTV)
Richmond: WTVR 6 (CBS) - WRIC 8 (ABC) - WWBT 12 (NBC)
Charlottesville: WVIR-DT 29.3 (The CW)
Broadcast television in the Washington, D.C. market  (Nielsen DMA #8)

WRC 4 (NBC) - WTTG 5 (Fox) - WJLA 7 (ABC) - WUSA 9 (CBS) - WAZT-CA 10/WAZC-LP 16/WAZF-CA 28/WAZW-CA 48 (TBN) - WFDC 14 (UNI) - W15AD 15/W17AL 17/W41AO 41/W48AA 48/W69AC 69 (PBS/WVPB) - WDCA 20 (MNTV) - WDDN-LP 23 (DS) - WHAG 25 (NBC) - WETA 26 (PBS) - WWPB 31/WFPT 62 (PBS/MPT) - WHUT 32 (PBS) - WVPY 42 (PBS) - WMDO-CA 47 (TFR) - WWTD 49 (Ind) - WDCW 50 (The CW) (The Tube on DT2) - WNVC 56 (Ind) - WIAV-LP 58 (AV/Ind) - WWPX 60/WPXW 66 (i) - WZDC-LP 64 (TEL) - WJAL 68 (Ind)
Local digital television channels

WNVT 30 (Ind)
Local cable television channels

CN8 - News Channel 8 - TV 3 Winchester (ABC)


Broadcast television in the Charlottesville market  (Nielsen DMA #182)

WVAW-LP 16 (ABC) - WCAV 19 (CBS) - WAHU-CA 27 (Fox/MNTV) - WVIR 29 (NBC/The CW) - WHTJ 41 (PBS) - W50CM 50 (PBS)
Broadcast television in the Roanoke market  (Nielsen DMA #68)

WDRG 2 (IND) - WDBJ 7 (CBS) (My Network TV on DT2 "7Too") - W08CW 8 (PBS) - WSLS 10 (NBC) - WSET 13 (ABC) - WBRA 15 (PBS) - WTLU 19 (IND) - WWCW 21 (FOX) (The CW on DT2) - WDRL 24 (Ind) - WFXR 27 (FOX) - WPXR 38 (i) - WRKV 43 (IND) - W49AP 49 (TBN)
PBS Member Stations in the state of Virginia

WBRA 15 / WSBN 47 / WMSY 52 (Roanoke / Norton / Marion) - WHRO 15 (Hampton) - WCVE 23 / WCVW 57 / WHTJ 41 (Richmond / Charlottesville) - WVPT 51 / WVPY 42 (Staunton / Front Royal)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC and Other stations in Virginia
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