WVPT

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WVPT / WVPY
city =
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding =
analog =
WVPT: 51 (UHF)
WVPY: 42 (UHF)
digital =
WVPT: 11 (VHF)
WVPY: 21 (UHF)
other_chs = W50CM Charlottesville
W45AW Fulks Run
W38AV Luray
W08CW Monterey
W58DK Ruckersville
affiliations = PBS
network =
founded =
airdate = WVPT: September 9, 1968
WVPY: August 22, 1996
location = WVPT: Staunton/Harrisonburg, Virginia
WVPY: Front Royal, Virginia
callsign_meaning = Western
Virginia
Public
Television
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Shenandoah Valley Educational Television Corporation
licensee =
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = NET (1968-1970)
effective_radiated_power = WVPT:
525 kW (analog)
3.2 kW (digital)
WVPY:
141 kW (analog)
50 kW (digital)
HAAT = WVPT:
680 m (both)
WVPY:
399 m (analog)
400 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = WVPT: 60111
WVPY: 66378
coordinates = WVPT:
coord|38|9|54.5|N|79|18|50.4|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
WVPY:
coord|38|57|37.2|N|78|19|51.6|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=WVPY
homepage = [http://www.wvpt.net/ www.wvpt.net]

WVPT is a public television station in Harrisonburg, Virginia. It is the PBS member station for the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and West Virginia. The station is licensed to Staunton, and is located on the campus of James Madison University in Harrisonburg. It is owned by Shenandoah Valley Educational Television Corporation, along with satellite station WVPY channel 42 in Front Royal, Virginia.

WVPT signed on for the first time on September 9, 1968. WVPY was added in 1996.

WVPY is available over-the-air in portions of Virginia's share of the Washington metropolitan area (Front Royal is located within the Washington television market), while WVPT is available on cable in Lynchburg. Though not available via Dish Network or DirecTV satellite in its home market of Harrisonburg (which does not yet receive local feeds) or Charlottesville, it is available to all Dish and Direct subscribers in the Washington area.

On Wednesday, October 1, 2008 WVPT started broadcasting in all HD.

Repeaters

WVPT is the smallest PBS station licensed to Virginia, but serves one of the largest coverage areas of any PBS member. Its two main transmitters (at 525,000 watts and 141,000 watts, respectively) are not nearly strong enough to serve this vast and mountainous area. As a result, it operates several translators.

* Charlottesville - W50CM
* Fulks Run - W45AW
* Luray - W38AV
* Monterey - W08CW
* Ruckersville - W58DK

WVPT also transmits digitally from these sites under an experimental license, and instead of having different frequencies, the digital transmitters operate on the same frequencies as the parent stations. For example, WVPT can be seen digitally in Charlottesville on channel 11 (same channel as WVPT-DT) and appears as 51-1 on digital receivers. [http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showpost.php?p=7213854&postcount=439]

The Charlottesville translator was the only over-the-air source of PBS programming in central Virginia until WHTJ signed on in 1989 as a satellite of WCVE-TV in Richmond.

External links

* [http://www.wvpt.net/ Official site]
*TVQ|WVPT
*TVQ|WVPY
*TVQ|W50CM
*TVQ|W45AW
*TVQ|W38AV
*TVQ|W08CW
*TVQ|W58DK
*BIA|WVPT|TV|TV
*BIA|WVPY|TV|TV