WHP-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WHP-TV
city =
station_
station_slogan = Your CBS Station in Central Pennsylvania
station_branding = CBS 21 (general)
CBS 21 News (newscasts)
analog = 21 (UHF)
digital = 4 (VHF)
21 (UHF) (Post 2009)
affiliations = CBS
MyNetworkTV (DT2)
other_chs =
founded =
airdate = April 15, 1953
location = Harrisburg/York/Lebanon/Lancaster, Pennsylvania
callsign_meaning = Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers = 55 (1953-1957)
owner = Newport Television, LLC
licensee =
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = Secondary:
DuMont (1953-1955)
effective_radiated_power = 1200 kW (analog)
2.3 kW (digital)
450 kW (digital) (future)
HAAT = 372 m (analog)
349 m (digital)
369 m (digital) (future)
class =
facility_id = 72313
coordinates = coord|40|20|42.8|N|76|52|9.5|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.whptv.com/ www.whptv.com]

WHP-TV is the CBS television affiliate in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It also serves other communities in the Susquehanna Valley of south central Pennsylvania including York, Lebanon, and Lancaster as well as parts of northern Maryland.cite web|title=Service Area Map - Digital Signal|publisher=FCC|url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=DS600840.html|date=2008-02-17|accessdate=2008-02-17] cite web|title=Service Area Map - Analog Signal|publisher=FCC|url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/FMTV-service-area?x=TV302961.html|date=2008-02-17|accessdate=2008-02-17] WHP airs programming from MyNetworkTV on its DT2 sub-channel My TV twentyone.2. The station broadcasts its analog signal on UHF channel 21 and its digital signal on VHF channel 4. Its transmitter is located in Susquehanna Township, Pennsylvania. Rival WGAL started on analog channel 4 but moved due to interference from fellow NBC station WRC-TV.Fact|date=February 2008

The station is currently owned by Newport Television Partners, and is the sister station to CW affiliate WLYH 15 (CW 15) .

History

The station launched on July 4, 1953 on channel 55 as a dual affiliate of the CBS and DuMont networks.Fact|date=February 2008 It was originally owned by Commonwealth Communications Services. The station kept the CBS affiliation after DuMont's demise in 1956, and later began to share CBS programming with WLYH-TV channel 15 (now WHP's sister station) and WSBA-TV channel 43 (now WPMT) as part of the "Keystone Network". The station moved from channel 55 to channel 21 in 1957.Fact|date=February 2008

Clear Channel Communications acquired the station in 1995. At this time, WHP began controlling secondary CBS affiliate WLYH in Lancaster via a local marketing agreement, and switched its affiliation to UPN.

On July 12, 2006, WHP announced that it would launch a second digital channel that would become an affiliate of MyNetworkTV when that network launched in September 2006.Fact|date=February 2008

On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television station group to Providence Equity Partners' Newport Television.cite press release|title=Clear Channel Agrees to Sell Television Station Group to Providence Equity Partners|publisher=Clear Channel Communications|url=http://www.clearchannel.com/Corporate/PressRelease.aspx?PressReleaseID=1943|date=2007-04-20|accessdate=2007-04-20]

Digital TV

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Post-analog shutdown

After the analog television shutdown and digital transition, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009 http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf] , WHP-TV will move its digital broadcasts back to its present analog channel number, 21. [http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101257804&formid=387&fac_num=72313 CDBS Print ] ]

External links

* [http://www.whptv.com/ WHP-TV Website]
* [http://www.mynetworktv.com/ MyNetworkTV Website]
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