WTAE-TV (Digital channel 51, displayed as PSIP virtual channel 4) is the ABC affiliate serving the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and serving as a ABC affiliate for the Wheeling/Steubenville and Clarksburg/Weston, West Virginia market areas. Its transmitter is located in Buena Vista, Pennsylvania and its studios are located in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. It is one the of the ABC affiliates in the United States with a higher cha...
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WTAE-TV (Digital channel 51, displayed as PSIP virtual channel 4) is the ABC affiliate serving the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and serving as a ABC affiliate for the Wheeling/Steubenville and Clarksburg/Weston, West Virginia market areas. Its transmitter is located in Buena Vista, Pennsylvania and its studios are located in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. It is one the of the ABC affiliates in the United States with a higher channel allocation because of channel 51 having the highest channel allocation nowadays.
Channel 4, originally allocated to Irwin, Pennsylvania (in Westmoreland County), was moved to Pittsburgh in the mid 1950s. This came about because Pittsburgh mayor David L. Lawrence had petitioned the FCC relentlessly for a fourth VHF channel in the area. In the analog age, WTAE was thus short-spaced to other channel 4 stations in Columbus, Ohio (WCMH-TV, which is NBC), Buffalo, New York (WIVB-TV, which is CBS), and Washington, D.C. (WRC-TV, an NBC O&O;),...
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