WPNT

WPNT, virtual channel 22 (UHF digital channel 42), is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with Fox affiliate WPGH-TV (channel 53). The two stations share studios located on Ivory Avenue in the city's Summer Hill section, WPNT's transmitter is located in Monroeville, Pennsylvania. WPNT carries programming from the American Sports Network syndication package and Ring of Honor, both owned by Sinclair.

Digital television

Digital channels

Until the end of 2006, WPNT featured The Tube music video channel on a digital subchannel.

Analog-to-digital conversion

WPNT shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 22, on February 17, 2009, the original date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (the deadline was later extended to June 12). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 47. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 69, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition. WPNT was one of three stations in the Pittsburgh market to discontinue normal programming on their analog signals on the original signoff date, alongside sister station WPGH-TV and then-WQED-owned WQEX. As part of the SAFER Act, WPNT and WPGH kept their analog signals on the air until March 19 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters.

WPNT (disambiguation)

WPNT is currently a MyNetwork TV affiliate owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

WPNT may also mean:

WPNT (South Bend, Indiana)

WPNT (1490 AM) was a sports radio station licensed to serve the South Bend, Indiana, USA area. The station is owned by Artistic Media Partners, Inc.

History

The station first went on the air in 1947 as WNDU, under the ownership of the University of Notre Dame. In 1998 the college agreed to sell WNDU and sister station WNDU-FM to Artistic Media Partners, which changed the call letters of the two stations to WNDV and WNDV-FM.

In the fall of 2006, Artistic changed the call letters of 1490 WNDV to WDND, affiliating with ESPN Radio and implementing the Sports Talk format which had been airing on a South Bend station operated by Artistic at 1580 AM.

Artistic moved the WDND calls and format to its station at 1620 AM when the transmitting tower for the 1490 AM facility on the Notre Dame campus was dismantled to make room for a new hockey arena. The former call letters of the 1620 station, WPNT, were assigned to the silent 1490 operation on May 13, 2009.

The station at 1490 was expected to return to the air when Artistic found a new tower location.