WLVT-TV

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WLVT-TV
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Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton, Pennsylvania
Branding PBS 39
Channels Analog: 39 (UHF)

Digital: 62 (UHF)

Affiliations PBS
Owner Lehigh Valley Public Telecommunications Corporation
First air date September 1965[1]
Former affiliations NET (1965-1970)
Transmitter Power 575 kW (analog)
47.7 kW (digital)
Height 302 m (analog)
294 m (digital)
Facility ID 36989
Transmitter Coordinates 40°34′1.9″N, 75°26′3.5″W (analog)
40°33′52.2″N, 75°26′23.6″W (digital)
Website www.wlvt.org

WLVT-TV is a PBS television station serving the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania in the United States.

The station signed on in September 1965 as a NET affiliate. Due to cable television, its signal is now carried in Eastern Pennsylvania, western and parts of southern New Jersey and parts of Delaware and New York states. WLVT-TV's 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.

Around the 1980s and 1990s, WLVT had many underwriters for almost every program they broadcasted. Some include: Crayola LLC, Just Born, Chrysler, Stanley/Vidmar, Bethlehem Steel, and WDIY 88.1 FM.

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  1. ^ The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says September 29, while the Television and Cable Factbook says September 7.