WJPW-CA

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WJPW-CA
(satellite of WBGN-LP,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Image:Wbgntv.jpg
Weirton, West Virginia
Branding WBGN-TV
Slogan The family's all here
Channels Analog: 18 UHF
Affiliations Independent
Owner Turnpike Television
Founded 2005
Former callsigns W57BH
Transmitter Power 0.744 kW
Class A
Facility ID 68407

WJPW-CA is a Class-A television station located in and licensed to Weirton, West Virginia. The station is a repeater station which airs WBGN-LP full time.

[edit] History

WJPW-CA began operation as a station licensed to Steubenville, Ohio on channel 57 with the call sign W57BH. The station was then a repeater for independent Pittsburgh station WBGN-LP.

A move from ch.57 to ch.18 was required when WTOV-TV was granted digital facilities on ch.57. Shortly after moving to ch.18 the WJPA-CA call-sign was granted and the station began repeating WVTX-CA.

On September 19th, 2006, after WVTX-CA closed its studios in Wheeling, West Virginia, the station once again began to repeat WBGN-LP.

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