WVPT

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WVPT / WVPY
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WVPT: Staunton/Harrisonburg, Virginia
WVPY: Front Royal, Virginia
Channels

Digital:
WVPT: 11 (VHF)
WVPY: 21 (UHF)
Subchannels 51.1/42.1 PBS-HD
51.2/42.2 Create
51.3/42.3 V-me[1]
Translators W50CM Charlottesville
W45AW Fulks Run
W38AV Luray
W08CW Monterey
W58DK Ruckersville
Affiliations PBS
Owner Shenandoah Valley Educational Television Corporation
First air date WVPT: September 9, 1968
WVPY: August 22, 1996
Call letters’ meaning Western
Virginia
Public
Television
Former channel number(s) Analog:
WVPT:
51 (1968-2009)
WVPY:
42 (1996-2009)
Former affiliations NET (1968-1970)
Transmitter Power WVPT:
3.2 kW (digital)
WVPY:
50 kW (digital)
Height WVPT:
680 m (digital)
WVPY:
400 m (digital)
Facility ID WVPT: 60111
WVPY: 66378
Transmitter Coordinates WVPT:
38°9′54″N 79°18′51″W / 38.165°N 79.31417°W / 38.165; -79.31417
WVPY:
38°57′36″N 78°19′52″W / 38.96°N 78.33111°W / 38.96; -78.33111 (WVPY)
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 (Front Royal is located within the Washington television market), while WVPT is available on cable in Lynchburg. Though not available via Dish Network or DirecTV satellite in its home market of Harrisonburg (which does not yet receive local feeds) or Charlottesville, it is available to all Dish and Direct subscribers in the Washington area.

On Wednesday, October 1, 2008 WVPT started broadcasting in all HD.

[edit] Transmitters

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 (which in analogue were 525,000 watts and 141,000 watts, respectively) are not nearly strong enough to serve this vast and mountainous area. As a result, it operates several translators and a digital distributed transmission system.

Community Transmitter location Anal. Digi.
WVPT Staunton:
Charlottesville 37°59′0″N 78°29′2″W / 37.98333°N 78.48389°W / 37.98333; -78.48389 W50CM
36.6kW		 40 watts, VHF 11
Monterey 38°20′39″N 79°35′47″W / 38.34417°N 79.59639°W / 38.34417; -79.59639 W08CW
64W		 8 watts, VHF 11
WVPY Front Royal:
Fulks Run 38°36′29″N 78°54′11″W / 38.60806°N 78.90306°W / 38.60806; -78.90306 (anal.)
38°36′31″N 78°54′7″W / 38.60861°N 78.90194°W / 38.60861; -78.90194 (digi.)		 W45AW
1,830W		 100 watts, UHF 21
Luray 38°36′5″N 78°37′57″W / 38.60139°N 78.6325°W / 38.60139; -78.6325 W38AV
2,470W		 100 watts, UHF 21
Ruckersville 38°28′43″N 78°24′58″W / 38.47861°N 78.41611°W / 38.47861; -78.41611 W58DK
10.6kW		 500 watts, UHF 21

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.

WVPT and WVPY are rebroadcast digitally on the same frequencies as the parent stations under an experimental license. For instance, WVPT can be seen digitally as WVPT1-DT Charlottesville on VHF channel 11, virtual channel 51.1 (same channels as WVPT-DT).[2]

Communities listed above are as they appear on the NTSC-M broadcast translator licences on the FCC database. For synchronised on-channel digital transmitters used to provide "fill-in" distributed transmission system coverage, content is bitwise-identical to the main signal and the legal city of license is that of the respective main station. Digital DTS callsigns are based on those of the respective main stations, suffixed with a sequential number.

[edit] References

  1. ^ WVPT digital channel lineup, WVPT Virginia Public Television, 2008
  2. ^ Renewal request for experimental license WVPT1-DT, a DTV booster station on Channel 11 in Charlottesville, Virginia

[edit] External links

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Broadcast television in the Harrisonburg area
Local stations

WHSV-TV 3 (ABC, 3.2 FOX, 3.3 ABC/This TV, 3.4 MNTV) • WAZH 24/WAZM 25 (TBN) • W28BF 28 (NBC, via WVIR-TV) • WVPY 42 / WVPT 51 (PBS)
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WMPT/WFPT (22.1/62.1 PBS/MPT) • WETA (26.1 PBS HD, 26.2 Create, 26.3 Kids, 26.4 News/Documentary) •
WNVC (30.1 MHzWV, 30.2 NHK, 30.3 MCN, 30.4 RT, 30.5 AJ) • WNVT (30.6 SABC, 30.7 F24, 30.8 NTA, 30.9 VTV4, 30.10 Euronews) • WHUT (32.1 PBS)
Spanish language

WDCN-LP 6 (audio only) • WFDC (14.1 UNI) • WZDC-CA 25 (TMD) • WMDO-CA 47 (TFU)
Cable channels
Hagerstown locals

WHAG (25.1 NBC) • WWPB (31.1 PBS/MPT) • WJAL (68.1 Ind)
Winchester locals
West Virginia locals
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