WITF-TV

WITF-TV virtual channel 33 (UHF digital channel 36) is a PBS member television station serving South Central Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by WITF, Inc. and sister station to the area's NPR member station, WITF-FM (89.5). WITF-TV maintains studio facilities located at the WITF Public Media Center in Swatara Township (though with a Harrisburg address) and its transmitter (which is shared with CBS affiliate WHP-TV, channel 21) is located in Susquehanna Township.

On cable television, the station is available on Comcast channel 6 and in high definition on digital cable channel 803. WITF's programming is relayed on two low-powered translator stations: W33CR-D (channel 33) in Chambersburg and W24CS (channel 24) in Reading.

History

The UHF channel 33 allocation in Central Pennsylvania was previously occupied by WEEU-TV, a commercial television station licensed to Reading that operated in the 1950s. The station shut down in June 1955 after the television stations out of Philadelphia boosted their signals to cover Reading.