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WVPT / WVPY
WVPT: Staunton/Harrisonburg, Virginia WVPY: Front Royal, Virginia
Channels	Analog: WVPT: 51 (UHF) WVPY: 42 (UHF) Digital: WVPT: 11 (VHF) WVPY: 21 (UHF)
Translators	W50CM Charlottesville W45AW Fulks Run W38AV Luray W08CW Monterey W58DK Ruckersville
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	Shenandoah Valley Educational Television Corporation
First air date	WVPT: September 9, 1968 WVPY: August 22, 1996
Call letters’ meaning	Western Virginia Public Television
Former affiliations	NET (1968-1970)
Transmitter Power	WVPT: 525 kW (analog) 3.2 kW (digital) WVPY: 141 kW (analog) 50 kW (digital)
Height	WVPT: 680 m (both) WVPY: 399 m (analog) 400 m (digital)
Facility ID	WVPT: 60111 WVPY: 66378
Transmitter Coordinates	WVPT: 38°9′54.5″N 79°18′50.4″W / 38.165139, -79.314 WVPY: 38°57′37.2″N 78°19′51.6″W / 38.960333, -78.331 (WVPY)
Website	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. [1]

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

• Official site
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WVPT
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WVPY
• Query the FCC's TV station database for W50CM
• Query the FCC's TV station database for W45AW
• Query the FCC's TV station database for W38AV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for W08CW
• Query the FCC's TV station database for W58DK
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WVPT-TV
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WVPY-TV

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