pennsylvania united states branding witf slogan live inspired channels digital 36 uhf virtual 33 psip translators w33cr d 33 chambersburg w24cs 24 reading affiliations .1 pbs owner witf inc. first air date november 22 1964 ; 51 years ago 1964 11 22 call letters meaning where it s top flight sister station s witf fm former channel number s analog 33 uhf 1964 2009 former affiliations net 1964 1970 transmitter power 50 kw height 411 m facility id 73083 transmitter coordinates 40 20 43.5 n 76 52 7.5 w 40.345417 n 76.868750 w 40.345417 ; 76.868750 licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website www.witf.org 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 . contents 1 history 2 digital television 2.1 digital channel 2.2 analog to digital conversion 3 programming 3.1 locally produced programming 4 references 5 external links history edit 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 . the channel 33 allocation was reassigned to harrisburg for non commercial educational use . the south central educational broadcasting council was formed in 1963 and it quickly filed for the channel 33 license . witf tv first signed on the air on november 22 1964 from a temporary studio facility located in hershey near the hershey theatre . in 1982 the station moved its operations to studio facilities in northeast harrisburg . in 2007 it moved to a purpose built facility in swatara township . in 1998 witf tv made history in pennsylvania by becoming the commonwealth s first television station to operate a digital signal . as broadcasters across the country began the gradual federally mandated conversion from analog to digital broadcasts witf became one of the first in the nation to meet the technological financial and educational challenges . digital television edit digital channel edit channel video aspect psip short name programming 1 33.1 1080i 16 9 witf hd main witf tv programming pbs witf formerly carried pbs hd on digital subchannel 33.3 ; however that channel no longer exists . analog to digital conversion edit witf tv discontinued regular programming on its analog signal over uhf channel 33 on february 17 2009 as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television which congress had moved the previous month to june 12 . 2 the station s digital signal remained on its pre transition uhf channel 36 using psip to display witf tv s virtual channel as 33 on digital television receivers . programming edit locally produced programming edit our town explore pa virtual field trips smart talk life styles health smart references edit rabbitears tv query for witf list of digital full power stations permanent dead link external links edit official website query the fcc s tv station database for witf tv query the fcc s tv station database for w33cr d query the fcc s tv station database for w24cs biafn s media web database information on witf tv v t e broadcast television in the susquehanna valley including harrisburg lancaster and york reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television local stations wgal 8.1 nbc 8.2 metv wxbu 15.1 grit 15.2 comet tv whp tv 21.1 cbs 21.2 mynetworktv 21.3 the cw whtm tv 27.1 abc 27.2 ion 27.3 gettv w07dp d 35.1 cor witf tv 33.1 pbs wpmt 43.1 fox 43.2 antenna tv 43.3 this tv wgcb tv 49.1 ind 49.2 cozi tv 49.3 the works outlying areas wjal 68.1 ind adjacent locals philadelphia pa kyw tv 3.1 cbs 3.2 decades wpvi tv 6.1 abc 6.2 lwn hd 6.3 laff wphl tv 17.1 mynetworktv 17.2 antenna tv 17.3 this 17.4 tango traffic baltimore md wmar tv 2.1 abc 2.2 laff wbal tv 11.1 nbc 11.2 metv wjz tv 13.1 cbs cable channels harrisburg broadcast network pennsylvania cable network the comcast network pennsylvania broadcast television binghamton new york buffalo new york elmira new york erie johnstown altoona state college new york city philadelphia pittsburgh scranton wilkes barre susquehanna valley harrisburg washington dc youngstown ohio see also baltimore tv v t e pennsylvania public television network stations whyy tv witf tv wlvt tv wpsu tv wqed wqln wvia tv wybe v t e pbs member stations in the state of pennsylvania wpsu 3 clearfield wqed 13 pittsburgh witf 33 harrisburg wlvt 39 allentown wvia 44 scranton wqln 54 erie whyy 12 philadelphia other wnjs 23 camden nj see also abc cbs cw fox ion mynetworktv nbc pbs other stations in pennsylvania retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title witf tv & oldid 740690502 categories pbs member stationstelevision stations in harrisburg pennsylvaniamedia in lancaster pennsylvaniatelevision stations in pennsylvaniatelevision channels and stations established in 1964hidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from july 2016articles with permanently dead external links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 22 september 2016 at 17 22 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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