WPMT-TV
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York-Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon, Pennsylvania United States |
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| City | York, Pennsylvania |
| Branding | Fox 43 (general) Fox 43 News (newscasts) |
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Digital: 47 (UHF) Virtual: 43 () |
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| Owner |
Tribune Broadcasting (WPMT, LLC) |
| First air date | December 21, 1952 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Pennsylvania Movie Time (in reference to its movie-heavy format as an Independent) |
| Former callsigns | WSBA-TV (1952–1983) |
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| Transmitter power | 933 kW |
| Height | 385 m (1,263 ft) |
| Facility ID | 10213 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°1′41″N 76°36′0″W / 40.02806°N 76.60000°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | fox43 |
WPMT, virtual channel 43 (UHF digital channel 47), is the Fox-affiliated television station serving South Central Pennsylvania. Licensed to York, the station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Media Company. WPMT maintains studio facilities located on South Queen Street in Spring Garden Township (with a York mailing address), and its transmitter is located in Hellam Township. The station is available on Comcast cable channel 5 and in high definition on digital channel 804.
The station first signed on the air on December 21, 1952 as WSBA-TV, originally operating as an ABC affiliate. It was owned by the Susquehanna Radio Corporation, a subsidiary of the Susquehanna Pfaltzgraff conglomerate, along with radio station WSBA (910 AM). It was one of the first commercially licensed UHF television stations in the United States, signing on the air just over three months after KPTV in Portland, Oregon which originally broadcast on channel 27 when it signed on in 1952, before moving to VHF channel 12 five years later. This makes WPMT the second-oldest continuously broadcasting UHF station in the country, only behind WSBT-TV in South Bend, Indiana (although WSBT moved from its original channel 34 to channel 22 in the late 1950s, making WPMT the oldest UHF station that broadcasts continuously on the same virtual channel number to this day).
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