WPNT
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States |
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| Branding | 22 The Point |
| Channels |
Digital: 42 (UHF) Virtual: 22 () |
| Subchannels | 22.1 MyNetworkTV 22.2 ASN 22.3 Comet 22.4 GetTV |
| Affiliations | MyNetworkTV (2006–present) |
| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (WCWB Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | September 26, 1978 |
| Call letters' meaning |
The PoiNT; meeting place of the Ohio, Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in downtown Pittsburgh |
| Sister station(s) |
WPGH-TV WPXI-TV (through a news-share agreement) |
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| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 22 (UHF, 1978–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (1978–1995) FNN (1981–1985) UPN (1995–1998) The WB (1998–2006) |
| Transmitter power | 1 megawatt |
| Height | 314.9 m |
| Facility ID | 73907 |
| 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 | 22thepoint |
WPNT, virtual channel 22 (UHF digital channel 42), is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with Fox affiliate WPGH-TV (channel 53). The two stations share studios located on Ivory Avenue in the city's Summer Hill section, WPNT's transmitter is located in Monroeville, Pennsylvania. WPNT carries programming from the American Sports Network syndication package and Ring of Honor, both owned by Sinclair.
On cable, WPNT is carried on Comcast and Verizon FiOS channel 10 (standard definition), and 812 (Comcast high definition) and 510 (Verizon high definition).
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
Until the end of 2006, WPNT featured The Tube music video channel on a digital subchannel.
WPNT shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 22, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (the deadline was later extended to June 12). The station's digital signal continued to broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 42. Through the use of , digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 22. WPNT was one of three stations in the Pittsburgh market to discontinue normal programming on their analog signals on the original signoff date, alongside sister station WPGH-TV and then-WQED-owned WQEX.
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