Claim: WVPT, a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station owned by VPM Media Corporation, first aired on August 22, 1996 (24 years ago).
Evidence: September 9, 1968 (52 years ago) (1968-09-09) WVPT 
WVPT signed on for the first time on September 9, 1968, under the ownership of the Shenandoah Valley Educational Television Corporation.