WPCW

WPCW, virtual channel 19 (VHF digital channel 11), is a television station licensed to Jeannette, Pennsylvania, United States that serves as the CW owned-and-operated station for the Pittsburgh television market. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, as part of a duopoly with CBS station KDKA-TV (channel 2). The two stations share studio facilities at the Gateway Center in downtown Pittsburgh, WPCW's transmitter is located in the Perry North section of Pittsburgh.

By way of extended cable coverage, WPCW also serves as the default CW affiliate for the Johnstown-Altoona-State College television market, since that area currently lacks a CW affiliate of its own, even though CW affiliated Superstation WPIX in New York is also carried on Comcast in State College. WPCW was a Johnstown station for most of its history.

Digital television

Digital channel

This station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion

WPCW shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 19, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 49 (where its digital signal was originally slated to remain post-transition) to VHF channel 11 (the former allocation of WPXI's analog signal). Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 19. Interference with Cleveland, Ohio CBS affiliate WOIO that existed when both stations operated analog signals is no longer an issue as that station is broadcasting its digital signal on VHF channel 10. In July 2009, the station applied with the FCC for a repeater digital signal on channel 27 in Johnstown.