WINP-TV
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States |
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| Branding | Ion Television |
| Slogan | Positively Entertaining. |
| Channels |
Digital: 38 (UHF) Virtual: 16 () |
| Subchannels | 16.1 Ion Television 16.2 qubo 16.3 Ion Life 16.4 ShopTV 16.5 QVC 16.6 HSN |
| Affiliations | Ion Television (O&O; 2011–present) |
| Owner |
Ion Media Networks (Ion Media of Scranton, Inc.) |
| First air date | August 31, 1953 (First incarnation as ABC affiliate) March 1959 (Second incarnation) January 1963 (Current incarnation) |
| Call letters' meaning | I O N Pittsburgh |
| Former callsigns | WENS (1953–1957) WQEX (1959–2011) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 16 (UHF, 1963–2009) Digital: 26 (UHF, until 2009) |
| Former affiliations |
ABC (1953–1957) Dark (1957–1959, 1961–1963) NET (1959–1961, 1963–1970) PBS (1970–2004) America's Store (2004–2007) ShopNBC (2007–2011) |
| Transmitter power | 500 kW |
| Height | 213 m |
| Facility ID | 41314 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°26′46″N 79°57′51″W / 40.44611°N 79.96417°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
WINP-TV, virtual channel 16 (UHF digital channel 38), is an Ion Television owned-and-operated television station located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by Ion Media Networks.
On cable, WINP is carried on Comcast channels 4 (WTAE, which broadcasts over-the-air on channel 4, is instead carried on channel 8) (standard definition) and 807 (high definition), and on Verizon FiOS channels 16 (standard definition) and 516 (high definition).
Channel 16 in Pittsburgh started as WENS, a commercial station that operated from August 31, 1953 until 1957 before going dark because of storm damage and mediocre ratings.
WENS was Pittsburgh's first ABC network affiliate, broadcasting from studios at 750 Ivory Avenue, in the city of Pittsburgh's Summer Hill section. WPGH-TV broadcasts from this location today.
While off to a good start, financial problems forced the station to dump its locally produced programming and only operate for about six hours daily, airing only its network programming in pattern before leaving the air completely in 1957. One year after WENS shut down, WTAE-TV signed on and took the ABC network affiliation.
The station became WQEX in March 1959, after WQED acquired the station as a secondary station for televising educational programs. The new WQEX moved its transmitter from Summer Hill to that of its new sister TV station, with both stations broadcasting from a dual "candleabra" style antenna standing above a single tower at 4802 Fifth Avenue in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh.
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