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WBGN-CD is a Class A television station located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
. The station is owned and operated by Bruno-Goodworth Network, Inc. WBGN-CD began broadcasting in 1995 on channel 59 with the call sign W59BT. WBGN simulcasts on nine (9) Class A television stations that are strategically located throughout the Pittsburgh DMA. This combined signal makes WBGN's coverage equal to or greater than the existing full power network affiliates in the Pittsburgh Market. WBGN is one of the few Class A stations in the country that is "reportable" by Nielsen Media Research.
, Reno 911, Chappelle's Show
, Degrassi: The Next Generation
, Temptation
and Jury Duty
, along with former network hits such as Family Ties
, Hawaii Five-O
, Mission: Impossible
, The Nanny
, Mad About You
, The Outer Limits
, and America's Funniest Home Videos
. The prime-time lineup is rounded out with programming syndicated from Canada such as Cold Squad
, Stone Undercover and ReGenesis
. The network also shows second-run movies, children's shows such as Beakman's World
, live religious broadcasts and real estate shows.
WBGN produces a number of regularly scheduled local programs. It broadcasts Local News Breaks and local high school and professional sporting events. In 2005 the station began production of The It's Alive Show
, a program showcasing horror films and B-movies. Since May 2006, the station also produces two-minute news and 30-second weather segments which air every half hour during prime-time hours.
, the Northern-Panhandle of West Virginia
, and East-Central Ohio
through the 9 stations that simulcast WBGN in the Pittsburgh market.
On July 12, 2009, WBGN-CD began broadcasting digitally in the Pittsburgh area on physical channel 16 (485 MHz), the former analog designation of WINP-TV.
The main WBGN signal plus all of its satellite stations signed off their analog signals on June 22, 2010, since many fell within the channel 52
-69
spectrum that was freed up for other uses by the FCC. Like the main signal, the digital signal in New Castle airs on a former analog designation, in this case channel 27
, the former analog home of CBS
affiliate WKBN-TV
in Youngstown, Ohio
as does the digital signal in Greensburg which airs on the former analog designation of CW
affiliate WPCW
Pittsburgh/Jeanette, PA. As of July 28, 2010 WBGN and all of its satellite stations including New Castle (WPCP), Butler (WNNB), Beaver (WJMB), and Greensburg (WEMW) are transmitting digitally.
Currently four standard definition channels are being provided by the station.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...
. The station is owned and operated by Bruno-Goodworth Network, Inc. WBGN-CD began broadcasting in 1995 on channel 59 with the call sign W59BT. WBGN simulcasts on nine (9) Class A television stations that are strategically located throughout the Pittsburgh DMA. This combined signal makes WBGN's coverage equal to or greater than the existing full power network affiliates in the Pittsburgh Market. WBGN is one of the few Class A stations in the country that is "reportable" by Nielsen Media Research.
Programming
The station broadcasts a variety of programming including first run syndicated shows such as MarthaMartha (TV series)
Martha, also known as The Martha Stewart Show, is an American, weekday one-hour talk show hosted by Martha Stewart. Previously airing in first-run syndication, the show began exclusively airing on cable network Hallmark Channel since September 13, 2010.-History:The program originally debuted on...
, Reno 911, Chappelle's Show
Chappelle's Show
Chappelle's Show is an American sketch comedy television series created by comedian Dave Chappelle and Neal Brennan, with Chappelle hosting the show as well as starring in various skits. Chappelle, Brennan and Michele Armour were the show's executive producers. The series premiered on January 22,...
, Degrassi: The Next Generation
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television series set in the Degrassi universe, which was created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1979. Degrassi is the fourth fictional series in the Degrassi franchise, and follows The Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High, and...
, Temptation
Temptation (2007 US game show)
Temptation: The New Sale of the Century was a television game show loosely based on both the original Australian and American Sale of the Century versions, plus the 2005 Australian version, also titled Temptation. The show began airing in syndication on September 10, 2007, with the last first-run...
and Jury Duty
Jury Duty (TV series)
Jury Duty is an American syndicated reality-based television show that premiered on September 17, 2007. Initial market clearances, according to Broadcasting & Cable, were at least 60 percent of the nation's television markets...
, along with former network hits such as Family Ties
Family Ties
Family Ties is an American sitcom that aired on NBC for seven seasons, from 1982 to 1989. The sitcom reflected the move in the United States from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatism of the 1980s. This was particularly expressed through the relationship between young...
, Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for twelve seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. The show featured a fictional state police unit run by Detective Steve McGarrett,...
, Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible is an American television series which was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicled the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force . The leader of the team was Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, except in...
, The Nanny
The Nanny
Nanny may refer to:* Nanny, a child's caregiver* A grandmother * A Cajun word for godmother * A female goat* Nanny , a 1981–83 British drama series starring Wendy Craig* Nanny of the Maroons...
, Mad About You
Mad About You
Mad About You is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 23, 1992 to May 24, 1999. The show starred Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as a newly married couple in New York City. Reiser played Paul Buchman, a documentary film maker. Hunt played Jamie Stemple Buchman, a public relations specialist...
, The Outer Limits
The Outer Limits
The Outer Limits or Outer Limits may refer to:*The Outer Limits , a black-and-white science fiction series that aired from 1963 to 1965...
, and America's Funniest Home Videos
America's Funniest Home Videos
America's Funniest Home Videos is an American reality television program on ABC in which viewers are able to send in humorous homemade videotapes. The most common videos usually feature slapstick physical comedy arising from incidents, accidents and mishaps...
. The prime-time lineup is rounded out with programming syndicated from Canada such as Cold Squad
Cold Squad
Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that followed the investigations of a part of the Vancouver Police Department Homicide Division tasked with solving cold cases, the titular Cold Squad, as led by Sergeant Ali McCormick .The cast of Cold Squad was...
, Stone Undercover and ReGenesis
ReGenesis
ReGenesis is a Canadian television program produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films. The series, which ran for four seasons, revolves around the scientists of NorBAC , a fictional organization with a lab based in Toronto...
. The network also shows second-run movies, children's shows such as Beakman's World
Beakman's World
Beakman's World is an educational children's television show produced by ELP Communications, Columbia Pictures Television, Universal Belo Productions, and Columbia TriStar Television Distribution....
, live religious broadcasts and real estate shows.
WBGN produces a number of regularly scheduled local programs. It broadcasts Local News Breaks and local high school and professional sporting events. In 2005 the station began production of The It's Alive Show
The It's Alive Show
The It's Alive Show is a television program produced in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by Clownhouse Productions. The show is aired Saturday nights at 10:00 PM on WBGN, a local station and streamed online. Each show includes a horror or science fiction B movie with trivia, sketch comedy and live music in...
, a program showcasing horror films and B-movies. Since May 2006, the station also produces two-minute news and 30-second weather segments which air every half hour during prime-time hours.
Station Availability
WBGN-CD is carried on Verizon FiOS. Including the broadcast on channel 59 in Pittsburgh, WBGN is available over-the-air to almost all households in South-Western PennsylvaniaPennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
, the Northern-Panhandle of West Virginia
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...
, and East-Central Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
through the 9 stations that simulcast WBGN in the Pittsburgh market.
Bruno-Goodworth Network Stations
| Call Sign | Ch. # (Digital) |
City |
|---|---|---|
| WBGN-CD | 16 | Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States... |
| WPCP-CD | 27 | New Castle, Pennsylvania New Castle, Pennsylvania New Castle is a city in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States, northwest of Pittsburgh and near the Pennsylvania-Ohio border just east of Youngstown, Ohio; in 1910, the total population was 36,280; in 1920, 44,938; and in 1940, 47,638. The population has fallen to 26,309 according to the... |
| WNNB-CD | 30 | Beaver, Pennsylvania Beaver, Pennsylvania Beaver is a borough in and the county seat of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States, at the confluence of the Beaver and Ohio Rivers. As of the 2000 census, the borough population was 4,775, having dropped from 5,641 in 1940.... |
| WJMB-CD | 17 | Butler, Pennsylvania Butler, Pennsylvania The city of Butler is the county seat of Butler County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, situated north of Pittsburgh. The population was 15,121 at the 2000 census.- History :... |
| WKHU-CA | 44 | Kittanning, Pennsylvania Kittanning, Pennsylvania Kittanning is a borough and the county seat of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is situated northeast of Pittsburgh, along the east bank of the Allegheny River. The name means "at the great stream" in the Delaware language... |
| WEMW-CD | 19 | Greensburg, Pennsylvania Greensburg, Pennsylvania Greensburg is a city in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States, and a part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. The city is named after Nathanael Greene, a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War... |
| WWLM-CA | 20 | Washington, Pennsylvania Washington, Pennsylvania Washington is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States, within the Pittsburgh Metro Area in the southwestern part of the state... |
| WWKH-CA | 47 | Uniontown, Pennsylvania Uniontown, Pennsylvania Uniontown is a city in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh and part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. Population in 1900, 7,344; in 1910, 13,344; in 1920, 15,692; and in 1940, 21,819. The population was 10,372 at the 2010 census... |
| WMVH-CA | 40 | Charleroi, Pennsylvania Charleroi, Pennsylvania Charleroi is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, along the Monongahela River, 25 miles south of Pittsburgh. Charleroi was settled in 1890 and incorporated in 1891. The population in 1900 stood at 5,930; in 1910, 9,615; in 1920, 11,516, and in 1940, 10,784... |
| WJPW-CA WJPW-CA WJPW-CA is a Class-A television station located in and licensed to Weirton, West Virginia. The station is a repeater station which airs WBGN-LP full time.-History:... |
18 | Weirton, West Virginia Weirton, West Virginia Weirton is a city located in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia, United States. Most of the city is in Hancock County, with the remainder in Brooke County. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 20,411... |
| WVTX-CA WVTX-CA WVTX-CA is a Class-A television station which retransmits WBGN-LP from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on channel 28. The station serves the Wheeling, West Virginia area, and is officially licensed to the nearby city of Bridgeport, Ohio... |
28 | Bridgeport, Ohio Bridgeport, Ohio Bridgeport is a village in Belmont County, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Wheeling, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,831 at the 2010 census... |
On July 12, 2009, WBGN-CD began broadcasting digitally in the Pittsburgh area on physical channel 16 (485 MHz), the former analog designation of WINP-TV.
The main WBGN signal plus all of its satellite stations signed off their analog signals on June 22, 2010, since many fell within the channel 52
Channel 52
Channel 52 refers to several television stations:...
-69
Channel 69
Channel 69 refers to several television stations:...
spectrum that was freed up for other uses by the FCC. Like the main signal, the digital signal in New Castle airs on a former analog designation, in this case channel 27
Channel 27
Channel 27 refers to several television stations:...
, the former analog home of CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
affiliate WKBN-TV
WKBN-TV
WKBN-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for Youngstown, Ohio. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 41 from a transmitter at WKBN's studios on Sunset Boulevard in Boardman Township. Owned by New Vision Television, WKBN is sister to and shares studios with low-power...
in Youngstown, Ohio
Youngstown, Ohio
Youngstown is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Mahoning County; it also extends into Trumbull County. The municipality is situated on the Mahoning River, approximately southeast of Cleveland and northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
as does the digital signal in Greensburg which airs on the former analog designation of CW
The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
affiliate WPCW
WPCW
WPCW is a The CW-affiliated television station for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that is licensed to Jeannette. WPCW is owned by the CBS Corporation and serves as an affiliate of The CW Television Network for the television market...
Pittsburgh/Jeanette, PA. As of July 28, 2010 WBGN and all of its satellite stations including New Castle (WPCP), Butler (WNNB), Beaver (WJMB), and Greensburg (WEMW) are transmitting digitally.
Currently four standard definition channels are being provided by the station.
| Subchannel | PSIP Name | Programming |
|---|---|---|
| 59.1 | WBGN | main WBGN programming |
| 59.2 | HSN | Home Shopping Network |
| 59.3 | RTV | Retro Television Network Retro Television Network The Retro Television Network is a system of television stations that airs classic television shows as well as more recently produced programs... (as of 6/12/2011) |
| 59.4 | USN | Universal Sports Universal Sports Universal Sports is an American television network that airs various sports, primarily those contested in the Olympic Games, including swimming, gymnastics, cycling, track and field, figure skating, skiing, bobsledding and triathlon.-Programming:... |