WLVT-TV

WLVT-TV

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, Pennsylvania
Branding	PBS 39
Channels	Digital: 39 (UHF)
Subchannels	39.1 PBS-HD 39.2 V-me 39.3 Create
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	Lehigh Valley Public Telecommunications Corporation
First air date	September 7, 1965
Call letters' meaning	Lehigh Valley Public Television
Former channel number(s)	39 (analog, 1965-2009) 62 (digital, 2003-2009)
Former affiliations	NET (1965-1970)
Transmitter power	52 kW
Height	295 m
Facility ID	36989
Transmitter coordinates	40°33′52.2″N 75°26′23.6″W
Website	www.wlvt.org/

WLVT-TV "PBS 39" is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member Public television station serving the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania in the United States.

The station signed on September 7, 1965 as a National Educational Television (NET) member, and joined PBS at its inception in 1970. It is the smallest PBS member in Pennsylvania, serving a coverage area of 600,000 people. However, since the Lehigh Valley is part of the Philadelphia market, it is carried on cable systems in much of eastern Pennsylvania and western and parts of southern New Jersey. It is also available throughout the Philadelphia DMA via DirecTV service. WLVT-TV's studios in 2012 relocated to the south side of Bethlehem adjacent to the SteelStacks complex. Its transmitting tower is located south of nearby Allentown atop 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 broadcast. Some include: Crayola LLC, Just Born, Chrysler First Financial Services, Stanley/Vidmar, Bethlehem Steel, Hill Financial Savings, Muhlenberg College, Air Products & Chemicals, WDIY 88.1 FM, the Diocese of Allentown, Keystone Nazareth Bank and Trust, UGI Utilities and Capital Blue Cross/Blue Shield--just to name a few.

Digital television

Channel	Resolution	Video	PSIP	Programming
39.1	1080i	16:9	WLVT-DT	Main WLVT Programming / PBS
39.2	480i	4:3	V-Me	V-me
39.3			Create	Create

WLVT ceased analog transmissions on January 31, 2009.

See also

• Media in the Lehigh Valley

External links

• WLVT Official Web Site
• Directions to PBS39
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WLVT
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WLVT-TV