WXBU
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Lancaster/Lebanon/ Harrisburg/York, Pennsylvania United States |
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| City | Lancaster, Pennsylvania |
| Branding | WXBU 15 |
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Digital: 23 (UHF) Virtual: 15 () |
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| Owner |
Howard Stirk Holdings (HSH Lancaster (WLYH) Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | October 25, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | Assigned by Howard Stirk Holdings |
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| Transmitter power | 500 kW |
| Height | 381 m |
| Facility ID | 23338 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°15′44.8″N 76°27′50.2″W / 40.262444°N 76.463944°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
WXBU, virtual channel 15 (UHF digital channel 23), is a television station serving South Central Pennsylvania. Licensed to Lancaster, the station is owned by Howard Stirk Holdings. WXBU's transmitter facility and advertising sales offices are located on Butler Road in West Cornwall Township (with a Lebanon postal address).
The station first signed on the air on October 25, 1953 as WLBR-TV, operating as an independent station. Originally licensed to Lebanon, it transmitted its signal at one kW on a 572 feet (174 m) tower located just north of Mount Gretna. The station was originally owned by the Lebanon Television Corporation, a joint venture of the Lebanon Broadcasting Company (owner of WLBR radio [AM 1270] and WQFM [FM 100.1, now WQIC) and the Lebanon News Publishing Company (owner of the Lebanon Daily News). In October 1954, the station went dark after Hurricane Hazel knocked out the power to its transmitter.
In 1957, Triangle Publications bought the share of the dormant channel 15 license that had been owned by the Daily News. The station returned to the air with increased power in August 1957. Under Triangle ownership, the station became a part-time ABC affiliate and received other programs from then sister station WFIL-TV (now WPVI-TV) in Philadelphia. Triangle bought full control of the station in 1959, and the station's call letters were changed to WLYH-TV (representing its service area of Lebanon, York and Harrisburg). In 1961, it became a CBS affiliate as part of the Keystone Network, a three-station network serving South Central Pennsylvania that also included WHP-TV (channel 21) in Harrisburg, and WSBA-TV (channel 43, now WPMT-TV) in York. This arrangement was necessary in the days before cable television gained much penetration; South Central Pennsylvania is very mountainous. It created a strong combined signal with 55 percent overlap, and was a major factor in the decision to collapse South Central Pennsylvania into one giant market two years later.
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