WPGH-TV
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States |
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| Branding | Fox 53 (general) Channel 11 News (WPXI-produced newscasts) |
| Slogan | Everyone's a Winner |
| Channels |
Digital: 43 (UHF) Virtual: 53 () |
| Subchannels | 53.1 Fox 53.2 Antenna TV 53.3 Grit |
| Affiliations | Fox (1986–present) |
| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (WPGH Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | July 14, 1953 (original incarnation) February 1969 (second incarnation) January 14, 1974 (current incarnation) |
| Call letters' meaning | PittsburGH |
| Sister station(s) |
WPNT WPXI(through a news share agreement) |
| Former callsigns | WKJF-TV (1953–1954) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 53 (UHF, 1953–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Primary: NBC (1953–1954) Independent (1969–1971, 1974–1986) Dark (1954–1969, 1971–1974) Secondary: CBS/ABC/NBC (1974–1986) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 302.8 m |
| Facility ID | 73875 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°29′42.5″N 80°0′16.2″W / 40.495139°N 80.004500°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | wpgh53 |
WPGH-TV, virtual channel 53 (UHF digital channel 43), is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate WPNT (channel 22). The two stations share studios located on Ivory Avenue in the city's Summer Hill section, where WPGH-TV's transmitter is also located. On cable, WPGH is carried on Comcast channels 7 (channel 8 in Bethel Park) (standard definition) and 803 (high definition), and on Verizon FiOS channels 7 (standard definition) and 507 (high definition).
The station originally signed on the air on July 14, 1953, as WKJF-TV, it was Pittsburgh's first NBC affiliate before later becoming an independent station more than a decade and a half later. Despite being a network affiliate, the station was plagued by financial woes from the start.
Additionally, southwestern Pennsylvania is a very rugged dissected plateau, and UHF stations typically do not get good reception in rugged terrain. At the time, UHF stations could only be seen with a converter (television sets were not required to have UHF tuners until 1964, following the passage of the All-Channel Receiver Act), and even then the picture quality was spotty at best. WKJF-TV was certainly no exception to this, especially with Pittsburgh's eastern suburbs receiving better reception from Johnstown's NBC affiliate, WJAC-TV, a VHF station which had been on the air for about four years by this time.
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