WCPA

WCPA, virtual and UHF digital channel 22, is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Gentry, Pennsylvania, United States and serving the Corinth and the Midlands region. The station is owned by Journal Media Group and is a sister station to ABC affiliate WBEB. WCPA's studios are located on Route 409 in eastern Corinth, and its transmitter is located in southern Ahearn County near Gentry.
Although identifying as a separate station in its own right, WCPA is considered a semi-satellite of sister station WBOU (channel 32) in Pine Valley. As such, it clears all network programming as provided through its parent, but airs a separate offering of syndicated programming and newscasts; there are also separate station ID's and local commercial inserts. WCPA's master control, as well as some internal operations, are housed at the studios of WBOU in Pine Valley.
== History ==
The station's origins can be traced back to the late 1970s, when Corinth residents complained about a lack of an independent station in the market, where it was dominated by 3 VHF stations in the area, which already made the Midlands a "VHF island". To shake up the Corinth TV scene, National Chemical Broadcasting, the broadcasting arm of National Starch and Chemical Company, signed the station on as a semi-satellite of Pine Valley's then-independent station WYEA (then on channel 58; currently on channel 29 and owned by Adelphia Communications) as a way to extend its signal into the Pennsylvania Midlands region on June 1, 1985.
However, the station's life as an independent station was short-lived as it became a charter affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company on October 6, 1986, a year later. In 1991, National Chemical Broadcasting sold the station to Cannell Communications. The sale made the station both a sister station and semi-satellite of fellow Pine Valley Fox affiliate WBOU (channel 32), which was acquired from Renaissance Broadcasting earlier in 1990. In 1994, the stations were sold to First Media Television.
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Category:Corinth, PA
Category:Gentry, PA
Category:Pennsylvania Midlands
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Category:Former Raycom Media stations
Category:Journal Media Group
Category:Semi-satellite stations
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1985