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) affiliate. Due to cable television, its signal is now carried in Eastern Pennsylvania, western and parts of southern New Jersey, and available throughout the Philadelphia DMA via DirecTV service. WLVT-TV's studios are at 123 Sesame Street in Bethlehem. Transmitting tower is 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 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.
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| Channel |
Resolution |
Programming |
| 39.1 |
1080i |
Main WLVT Programming / PBS HD |
| 39.2 |
480i |
V-me |
| 39.3 |
480i |
Create |
WLVT ceased analog transmissions on January 31, 2009.
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Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television |
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- KYW (3.1 CBS)
- WPVI (6.1 ABC, 6.2 LWN HD, 6.3 LWN SD)
- WWJT-LP 7 (Ind)
- WELL-LD (8.1 Daystar)
- WCAU (10.1 NBC, 10.2 Nonstop)
- WHYY (12.1 PBS, 12.2 Create, 12.3 World)
- WPHL (17.1 MNTV, 17.2 Antenna TV, 17.3 This TV, 17.4 Tango Traffic)
- WNJS (23.1 PBS / NJTV)
- WFPA-CA 28 (TFU)
- WTXF (29.1 Fox)
- WZPA-LP 33 (AZA)
- WQAV-LP 34 (AV/Ind)
- WYBE (35.1 Public Ind, 35.2 NHK World, 35.3 MHz WorldView, 35.66 WFME-DT1 simulcast)
- WPHA-CA 38 (Ind)
- WWDD-LP 40 (DS)
- WNAI-LP 41 (HSN)
- WGTW (48.1 TBN, 48.2 Church, 48.3 JCTV, 48.4 Enlace, 48.5 Smile)
- WPSG (57.1 CW)
- WPPX (61.1 ION, 61.2 Qubo, 61.3 ION Life)
- WUVP (65.1 UNI, 65.2 WFPA-CA)
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