WLYH-TV
Encyclopedia
WLYH-TV is the CW-affiliated television station
for South Central Pennsylvania
licensed to Lancaster
. It broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 23 (or virtual channel
15.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Butler Road in South Londonderry Township's Timber Hills
section. The station can also be seen on Comcast
channel 2 and Verizon FiOS
channel 15. There is a high definition feed offered on Verizon FiOS digital channel 515 and Comcast digital channel 805.
Owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group
, WLYH is operated through a local marketing agreement
(LMA) by Newport Television
. This makes it sister to CBS
/MyNetworkTV
affiliate WHP-TV
and the two outlets share studios on North 6th Street in Harrisburg
's Uptown
section. Syndicated
programming on the station includes How I Met Your Mother
, The Office, My Name Is Earl
, and Don't Forget the Lyrics!
among others. On early Sunday mornings, it airs paid programming
from Jewelry Television
. WLYH's logo is identical to fellow CW affiliate WCWN
in Albany, New York
.
.
The station signed-on October 25, 1953
as an Independent with the call sign WLBR-TV. Licensed to Lebanon
, it aired an analog signal on UHF channel 15 from a one kW transmitter and 572 foot tower just north of Mount Gretna
. The station was originally owned by the Lebanon Television Corporation formed by the Lebanon Broadcasting Company (WLBR radio
) and the Lebanon News Publishing Company (Lebanon Daily News
). In October 1954 after a power failure caused by Hurricane Hazel
, the station went dark
.
In 1957, Triangle Publications
bought the dormant WLBR license. The station signed-on with increased power in August 1957. Under Triangle ownership, the station became a part-time ABC
affiliate and received other programs from then sister station WFIL-TV (now WPVI-TV
) in Philadelphia. On January 1, 1959, the call letters were changed to WLYH indicating service to Lebanon, York
, and Harrisburg. In 1961, it became a CBS affiliate as part of the Keystone Network comprising of WLYH, WHP in Harrisburg, and WSBA-TV (now WPMT
) in York.
This created a strong combined signal with 55 percent overlap. At this point in time, WLYH began simulcasting WSBA for nearly the entire broadcast day while WHP was programmed and operated separately. All three outlets ran prime time CBS programing, most of the daytime shows, and most of the weekend offerings. All three stations preempted CBS programming in moderation. However, any shows WSBA and WLYH preempted aired on WHP and vice versa allowing most of the market
to get the entire CBS schedule.
Triangle was forced out of broadcasting in 1970 after then-Governor Milton J. Shapp claimed the company had used its three Pennsylvania television stations (WLYH, WFIL, and WFBG-TV in Altoona
) in a smear campaign against him. WLYH was among the last to be sold going to Gateway Communications as part of a package with WFBG (now WTAJ-TV
) and WNBF-TV (now WBNG-TV
) in Binghamton, New York
in 1971. WLYH would eventually add the -TV suffix to its calls on April 5, 1979. In the 1980s, Gateway moved the station's city of license
to Lancaster. WSBA left the Keystone group in 1983 to become an Independent outlet leaving WLYH and WHP as the area's CBS affiliates. Both stations continued to air separate non-network programming and maintained the arrangement for programs preempted on one station to air on the other. WLYH also added a secondary affiliation with UPN
upon the new network's launch on January 16, 1995.
The unusual situation, with two separately owned and programmed CBS affiliates (which by then had about 75 percent signal overlap) in one market and airing most of the same network programming, would continue until Fall 1995 when Clear Channel Communications
(which had just bought WHP) entered into a twenty year local marketing agreement with Gateway. Under this operation agreement, WLYH was merged with WHP in Harrisburg. WLYH then became a primary UPN affiliate for the area while WHP became a sole CBS affiliate. This change took effect on December 16, 1995 ending WLYH's 34 year CBS affiliation. In 2000, Gateway sold all of its stations to SJL Broadcasting.
On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN
announced the two networks would end broadcasting and merge. The new combined service would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of corporate parents "C"BS (the parent company of UPN) and the "W"arner Bros.
unit of Time Warner
. On February 22, News Corporation
announced it would start up another new network called MyNetworkTV. This new service, which would be a sister network to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created in order to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming Independent. It was also created to compete against The CW. Since there was no WB affiliate in Harrisburg, WPHL-TV
in Philadelphia served as the market's default outlet on cable television
.
It was made public on May 18 that WLYH would become the area's CW affiliate upon its launch on September 18. Meanwhile, WHP created a new second digital subchannel
to be part of MyNetworkTV. Nexstar purchased the licenses of WLYH and WTAJ from SJL in late-2006. On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group (including WHP and the LMA with WLYH) to the private equity firm Providence Equity Partners
. The station's analog signal was shut down on February 17, 2009. Digital broadcasts remained on channel 23 using PSIP
to display its virtual channel
as 15. In addition to WLYH, Comcast systems offer WPSG
from Philadelphia in standard and high definition.
in Downtown Lancaster in addition to its main studios in South Londonderry Township.
In the early-1970s, an entirely new base of operations for color television
and updated news film processing were constructed as part of the new Park City Center
in that city. WSBA simulcasted WLYH's newscasts until the arrangement ended in 1983 with the former severing ties after becoming WPMT. After WHP took over operations of WLYH in Fall 1995, the former shut down this station's separate news department. The next year in 1996, a news share agreement was established between WLYH and WHP. This resulted in a prime time newscast at 10 to debut on this station.
The effort competed with WPMT which also aired a prime time broadcast in the 10 o'clock slot. Due to low ratings
and inconsistent viewership, WHP cancelled WLYH's original show and terminated the news share arrangement. In January 2009, WHP launched a prime time show on this station for a second time. This incarnation of WLYH's newscast initially only aired on weeknights but the production was expanded to a seven night operation at some point in time. Like the previous effort, WHP's broadcast at 10 competes with WPMT. However, WLYH's nightly newscast is thirty minutes long as opposed to an hour show on WPMT. In addition to its main studios in Harrisburg, WHP also operates bureaus in Lancaster and York.
Reporters
Television station
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for South Central Pennsylvania
South Central Pennsylvania
South Central Pennsylvania is a region of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania that includes the fourteen counties of Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Huntingdon, Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Mifflin, Northumberland, Perry, Schuylkill, Snyder, and York....
licensed to Lancaster
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Lancaster is a city in the south-central part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the county seat of Lancaster County and one of the older inland cities in the United States, . With a population of 59,322, it ranks eighth in population among Pennsylvania's cities...
. It broadcasts a high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
digital signal on UHF channel 23 (or virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....
15.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Butler Road in South Londonderry Township's Timber Hills
Timber Hills, Pennsylvania
Timber Hills is a census-designated place in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 329 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Timber Hills is located at ....
section. The station can also be seen on Comcast
Comcast
Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...
channel 2 and Verizon FiOS
Verizon FiOS
Verizon FiOS is a bundled Internet access, telephone, and television service which operates over a fiber-optic communications network. It is offered in some areas of the United States by Verizon Communications. Verizon was one of the first major U.S...
channel 15. There is a high definition feed offered on Verizon FiOS digital channel 515 and Comcast digital channel 805.
Owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group
Nexstar Broadcasting Group
Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc., is an entity of broadcast television stations headquartered in Irving, Texas. The company consists of 50 television stations across the U.S., ranging from market sizes 9 to 201 . 43 of the stations are broadcasting at full power, with the other 4 broadcasting at...
, WLYH is operated through a local marketing agreement
Local marketing agreement
In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee...
(LMA) by Newport Television
Newport Television
Newport Television, LLC is a television station holding company founded by Providence Equity Partners and Sandy DiPasquale in 2007 to acquire the television stations owned by Clear Channel Communications. In September 2007, Newport agreed to sell KFTY and KVOS-TV to LK Station Group LLC for $26.6...
. This makes it sister to 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...
/MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
affiliate WHP-TV
WHP-TV
WHP-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for South Central Pennsylvania licensed to Harrisburg. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 21. Its transmitter on a ridge north of Linglestown Road in Susquehanna Township...
and the two outlets share studios on North 6th Street in Harrisburg
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Harrisburg is the capital of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 49,528, making it the ninth largest city in Pennsylvania...
's Uptown
Uptown (Harrisburg)
Uptown is the only neighborhood in Harrisburg completely developed in the 20th century. Bordered by the Susquehanna River to the West, Maclay Street to the South, North 7th Street to the East and Susquehanna Township to the north, the neighborhood is home to many beautiful mansions along Front...
section. Syndicated
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
programming on the station includes How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting...
, The Office, My Name Is Earl
My Name Is Earl
My Name Is Earl is an American television comedy series created by Greg Garcia that was originally broadcast on the NBC television network from September 20, 2005, to May 14, 2009, in the United States...
, and Don't Forget the Lyrics!
Don't Forget the Lyrics!
Don't Forget the Lyrics! is a game show that originally aired on Fox from July 11, 2007 to June 19, 2009, hosted by Wayne Brady and produced by RDF USA, part of RDF Media. The launch of this show prompted NBC to move up the launch of their similar game show The Singing Bee...
among others. On early Sunday mornings, it airs paid programming
Infomercial
Infomercials are direct response television commercials which generally include a phone number or website. There are long-form infomercials, which are typically between 15 and 30 minutes in length, and short-form infomercials, which are typically 30 seconds to 120 seconds in length. Infomercials...
from Jewelry Television
Jewelry Television
Jewelry Television is an American television network, similar to the Home Shopping Network. It was formerly called "America's Collectibles Network" . The privately-held company was founded in 1993 and broadcasts high definition programming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to over 80 million unique...
. WLYH's logo is identical to fellow CW affiliate WCWN
WCWN
WCWN is the CW-affiliated television station for New York State's Capital District and Western New England. Licensed to Schenectady, New York, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 43 from a transmitter southwest of New Scotland's Voorheesville section...
in Albany, New York
Albany, New York
Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York's Capital District. Roughly north of New York City, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River...
.
Digital programming
On WLYH-DT2 and Verizon FiOS digital channel 480 is TheCoolTVTheCoolTV
THECOOLTV is a United States over-the-air digital subchannel launched in March 2009. The network's current program schedule consists of an all-music video lineup that can be customized to meet an affiliate's preference, along with the three hours per week of E/I programming as required by the...
.
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Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.1/23.1 | WLYH-HD | 1080i 1080i 1080i is the shorthand name for a high-definition television mode. The i means interlaced video; 1080i differs from 1080p, in which the p stands for progressive scan. The term 1080i assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a frame size of 1920×1080 pixels... |
16:9 16:9 16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ... |
main WLYH programming/The CW (HD) |
| 15.2/23.2 | WLYH-DT2 | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
4:3 | TheCoolTV (SD) |
History
1953 in television
The year 1953 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1953.-Events:*January 19 – 68% of all US television sets were tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth to little Ricky....
as an Independent with the call sign WLBR-TV. Licensed to Lebanon
Lebanon, Pennsylvania
Lebanon, formerly known as Steitztown, is a city in and the county seat of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 25,477 at the 2010 census, a 4.2% increase from the 2000 count of 24,461...
, it aired an analog signal on UHF channel 15 from a one kW transmitter and 572 foot tower just north of Mount Gretna
Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania
Mount Gretna is a borough in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Lebanon, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 242 at the 2000 census...
. The station was originally owned by the Lebanon Television Corporation formed by the Lebanon Broadcasting Company (WLBR radio
WLBR
WLBR is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA, the station is currently owned by Lebanon Broadcasting Co...
) and the Lebanon News Publishing Company (Lebanon Daily News
Lebanon Daily News
Lebanon Daily News is a local daily newspaper based in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. The main office is located on 718 Poplar Street. It publishes as an afternoon paper Monday through Friday and as a morning paper on Saturday and Sunday.-Prices and Circulation:...
). In October 1954 after a power failure caused by Hurricane Hazel
Hurricane Hazel
Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest and costliest hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm killed as many as 1,000 people in Haiti before striking the United States near the border between North and South Carolina, as a Category 4 hurricane...
, the station went dark
Dark (broadcasting)
In the broadcasting industry, dark is a term used to describe a radio station or television station that has gone off-the-air for an indefinite period of time, or as defined by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission , a "silent" station...
.
In 1957, Triangle Publications
Triangle Publications
Triangle Publications, Inc. was an American media group first based at 400 North Broad Street , Philadelphia, and later at its TV Guide headquarters in Radnor, Pennsylvania. Triangle Publications was a privately-held corporation with the majority of stock owned by Walter Annenberg and his sisters...
bought the dormant WLBR license. The station signed-on with increased power in August 1957. Under Triangle ownership, the station became a part-time ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
affiliate and received other programs from then sister station WFIL-TV (now WPVI-TV
WPVI-TV
WPVI-TV, channel 6, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. WPVI has its studios located on the border between Philadelphia and Bala Cynwyd, and its transmitter is located in the...
) in Philadelphia. On January 1, 1959, the call letters were changed to WLYH indicating service to Lebanon, York
York, Pennsylvania
York, known as the White Rose City , is a city located in York County, Pennsylvania, United States which is in the South Central region of the state. The population within the city limits was 43,718 at the 2010 census, which was a 7.0% increase from the 2000 count of 40,862...
, and Harrisburg. In 1961, it became a CBS affiliate as part of the Keystone Network comprising of WLYH, WHP in Harrisburg, and WSBA-TV (now WPMT
WPMT
WPMT, also known as channel 43 or Fox 43, is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to York, Pennsylvania. Owned by the Tribune Company, the station has studios in Spring Garden, Pennsylvania , and its transmitter is located in Hallam, Pennsylvania...
) in York.
This created a strong combined signal with 55 percent overlap. At this point in time, WLYH began simulcasting WSBA for nearly the entire broadcast day while WHP was programmed and operated separately. All three outlets ran prime time CBS programing, most of the daytime shows, and most of the weekend offerings. All three stations preempted CBS programming in moderation. However, any shows WSBA and WLYH preempted aired on WHP and vice versa allowing most of the market
Media market
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area , or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content...
to get the entire CBS schedule.
Triangle was forced out of broadcasting in 1970 after then-Governor Milton J. Shapp claimed the company had used its three Pennsylvania television stations (WLYH, WFIL, and WFBG-TV in Altoona
Altoona, Pennsylvania
-History:A major railroad town, Altoona was founded by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1849 as the site for a shop complex. Altoona was incorporated as a borough on February 6, 1854, and as a city under legislation approved on April 3, 1867, and February 8, 1868...
) in a smear campaign against him. WLYH was among the last to be sold going to Gateway Communications as part of a package with WFBG (now WTAJ-TV
WTAJ-TV
WTAJ-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Allegheny area of Pennsylvania that is licensed to Altoona, Pennsylvania. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 32. It is owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group...
) and WNBF-TV (now WBNG-TV
WBNG-TV
WBNG-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for Upstate New York's Eastern Southern Tier licensed to Binghamton. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 from a transmitter on Ingraham Hill Road southwest of downtown. The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable...
) in Binghamton, New York
Binghamton, New York
Binghamton is a city in the Southern Tier of New York in the United States. It is near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers...
in 1971. WLYH would eventually add the -TV suffix to its calls on April 5, 1979. In the 1980s, Gateway moved the station's city of license
City of license
A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator....
to Lancaster. WSBA left the Keystone group in 1983 to become an Independent outlet leaving WLYH and WHP as the area's CBS affiliates. Both stations continued to air separate non-network programming and maintained the arrangement for programs preempted on one station to air on the other. WLYH also added a secondary affiliation with UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
upon the new network's launch on January 16, 1995.
The unusual situation, with two separately owned and programmed CBS affiliates (which by then had about 75 percent signal overlap) in one market and airing most of the same network programming, would continue until Fall 1995 when Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications, Inc. is an American media conglomerate company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, and was taken private by Bain Capital LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP in a leveraged buyout in 2008...
(which had just bought WHP) entered into a twenty year local marketing agreement with Gateway. Under this operation agreement, WLYH was merged with WHP in Harrisburg. WLYH then became a primary UPN affiliate for the area while WHP became a sole CBS affiliate. This change took effect on December 16, 1995 ending WLYH's 34 year CBS affiliation. In 2000, Gateway sold all of its stations to SJL Broadcasting.
On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
announced the two networks would end broadcasting and merge. The new combined service would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of corporate parents "C"BS (the parent company of UPN) and the "W"arner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
unit of Time Warner
Time Warner
Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...
. On February 22, News Corporation
News Corporation
News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...
announced it would start up another new network called MyNetworkTV. This new service, which would be a sister network to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created in order to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming Independent. It was also created to compete against The CW. Since there was no WB affiliate in Harrisburg, WPHL-TV
WPHL-TV
WPHL-TV, channel 17, is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, owned by the Tribune Company and currently affiliated with the News Corporation-owned MyNetworkTV television network. This makes it the largest non-O&O station of the network...
in Philadelphia served as the market's default outlet on cable television
Cable television
Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...
.
It was made public on May 18 that WLYH would become the area's CW affiliate upon its launch on September 18. Meanwhile, WHP created a new second digital subchannel
Digital subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same digital radio or digital television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual...
to be part of MyNetworkTV. Nexstar purchased the licenses of WLYH and WTAJ from SJL in late-2006. On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group (including WHP and the LMA with WLYH) to the private equity firm Providence Equity Partners
Providence Equity Partners
Providence Equity Partners is a global private equity investment firm focused on media, entertainment, communications and information investments...
. The station's analog signal was shut down on February 17, 2009. Digital broadcasts remained on channel 23 using PSIP
Program and System Information Protocol
The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch...
to display its virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....
as 15. In addition to WLYH, Comcast systems offer WPSG
WPSG
WPSG, channel 57, is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. WPSG is owned by the CBS Corporation and is the east coast flagship station for the CW Television Network, which is owned jointly by CBS and Time Warner...
from Philadelphia in standard and high definition.
News operation
WLYH established a full news operation in the early-1960s that focused on the eastern side (Lebanon and Lancaster) of its large viewing area. Since its aired a UHF signal during the analog era, the station's coverage area was limited due to the nature of such signals. UHF transmissions usually do not enjoy as much of a broadcasting radius in mountainous areas as do stations operating on VHF. During the 1960s, WLYH operated a bureau in the W. W. Griest BuildingW. W. Griest Building
The W.W. Griest Building is a historic skyscraper located in the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Built in 1925 by C. Emlen Urban, the W.W. Griest Building is also the second tallest building in the city of Lancaster. It has been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places since June...
in Downtown Lancaster in addition to its main studios in South Londonderry Township.
In the early-1970s, an entirely new base of operations for color television
Color television
Color television is part of the history of television, the technology of television and practices associated with television's transmission of moving images in color video....
and updated news film processing were constructed as part of the new Park City Center
Park City Center
Park City Center is a large shopping mall located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and is the largest enclosed shopping center in South Central Pennsylvania. It is situated at the intersection of U.S. Route 30 and Harrisburg Pike. The shape of the mall resembles a snowflake, with its stores occupying...
in that city. WSBA simulcasted WLYH's newscasts until the arrangement ended in 1983 with the former severing ties after becoming WPMT. After WHP took over operations of WLYH in Fall 1995, the former shut down this station's separate news department. The next year in 1996, a news share agreement was established between WLYH and WHP. This resulted in a prime time newscast at 10 to debut on this station.
The effort competed with WPMT which also aired a prime time broadcast in the 10 o'clock slot. Due to low ratings
Nielsen Ratings
Nielsen ratings are the audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research, in an effort to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States...
and inconsistent viewership, WHP cancelled WLYH's original show and terminated the news share arrangement. In January 2009, WHP launched a prime time show on this station for a second time. This incarnation of WLYH's newscast initially only aired on weeknights but the production was expanded to a seven night operation at some point in time. Like the previous effort, WHP's broadcast at 10 competes with WPMT. However, WLYH's nightly newscast is thirty minutes long as opposed to an hour show on WPMT. In addition to its main studios in Harrisburg, WHP also operates bureaus in Lancaster and York.
Newscast titles
- Action NewsAction NewsAction News is a local television newscast format in the United States. It was conceived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at WFIL-TV by then-news director Mel Kampmann in 1970 as a response to the "Eyewitness News" format used on rival station KYW-TV...
(early 1960s-1986) - Channel 15 Action News (1986-1988)
- Action News 15 (1988-1991)
- News 15 (1991-1995, end of news department)
- Eyewitness NewsEyewitness NewsEyewitness News is a style of news broadcasting used by local television stations in different markets across the United States. It refers to a particular style of television newscast with an emphasis on visual elements and action video...
21 at 10 on UPN 15 (1996-1999, start of news share agreement) - UPN 15 News at 10 (1999-2001)
- UPN 15 Eyewitness News at 10 (2001-2003)
- CBS 21 News at 10 on CW 15 (second incarnation, 2009-present)
News team
Anchors- Tanya Foster - weeknight news
- Robb HanrahanRobb HanrahanRobb Hanrahan is a television newscaster currently employed by CBS affiliate WHP-TV in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Prior to joining WHP he had spent time at WFOR-TV, the CBS owned-and-operated station in Miami, Florida, where he co-anchored newscasts alongside Maggie Rodriguez for four years.He is...
- weeknight news - Annie McCormick - weekend news
- Tom Russell (AMSAmerican Meteorological SocietyThe American Meteorological Society promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences and the advancement of their professional applications. Founded in 1919, the American Meteorological Society has a membership...
and NWANational Weather AssociationThe National Weather Association is an American professional association with a mission to support and promote excellence in operational meteorology and related activities...
Seals of Approval) - Chief Meteorologist seen weeknights - Kirk Clyatt (AMS and NWA Seals of Approval) - weekend meteorologist and news reporter
- Jason Bristol - Sports DirectorSports DirectorA sports director is an individual at a television or radio station who is in charge of the sports department. In local news, the sports director is typically the station's primary sportscaster, and often anchors the primetime newscasts on weekdays. They are in charge of sports programming and...
seen weeknights - Chris Fischer - weekend sports and sports reporter
Reporters
- Jenni Joyce - Lancaster Bureau
- Christina Butler - York CountyYork County, PennsylvaniaYork County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of 2010, the population was 434,972. It is in the Susquehanna Valley, a large fertile agricultural region in South Central Pennsylvania....
- Jaime Meyers - producer
- Ewa Roman - producer
- Erica Moffitt - producer
- Donna Kirker-Morgan
- Ben Russell
- Chris Papst