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{{short description|PBS member station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania}}
{{Infobox broadcast
| call_letters = WITF-TV
| city = Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
| station_logo = WITF.png
| logo_size = 225px
| station_branding = WITF
| station_slogan = ''Live inspired''
| digital = 36 ([[ultra high frequency|UHF]])<br>{{small|(shared with [[WPMT]])}}
| virtual = 33 ([[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]])
| subchannels = {{ubl|33.1: [[1080i]] [[16:9]] WITF-HD|33.2: [[480i]] 16:9 KIDS<ref name=rei/>}}
| other_chs = {{small|W34FM-D 34 [[Chambersburg, Pennsylvania|Chambersburg]]}}
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''33.1:''' [[PBS]]|'''33.2:''' [[PBS Kids]]<ref name=rei>{{cite web|title=Digital TV Market Listing for WITF|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WITF#station|website=RabbitEars.Info|accessdate=February 14, 2017|language=en}}</ref>}}
| owner = WITF, Inc.
| licensee =
| location = [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania|Harrisburg]]/[[Lancaster, Pennsylvania|Lancaster]]/[[Lebanon, Pennsylvania|Lebanon]]/<br>[[York, Pennsylvania]]
| country = [[United States]]
| airdate = {{start date and age|1964|11|22|p=y}}
| enddate =
| callsign_meaning = '''W'''here '''I'''t's '''T'''op '''F'''light
| sister_stations = [[WITF-FM]]
| former_callsigns =
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:'''|33 (UHF, 1964–2009)}}
| former_affiliations = [[National Educational Television|NET]] (1964–1970)
| effective_radiated_power = 50 [[kilowatt|kW]]<br>84 kW (application)
| HAAT = {{convert|411|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}<br>{{convert|431|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} (application)
| facility_id = 73083
| coordinates = {{nowrap|{{coord|40|20|43.6|N|76|52|7.6|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}}}
| licensing_authority = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
| homepage = {{URL|http://www.witf.org/}}
}}
 
'''WITF-TV''', [[virtual channel]] 33 ([[Ultra high frequency|UHF]] [[digital terrestrial television|digital]] channel 36), is a Public Broadcasting Service ([[PBS]]) [[Network affiliate#Member stations|member]] [[television station]] [[city of license|licensed]] to [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania|Harrisburg]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[United States]] and serving the [[Susquehanna Valley]] region (Harrisburg–[[Lancaster, Pennsylvania|Lancaster]]–[[Lebanon, Pennsylvania|Lebanon]]–[[York, Pennsylvania|York]]). Owned by WITF, Inc., it is a [[sister station]] to the area's National Public Radio ([[NPR]]) member, [[WITF-FM]] (89.5). The two stations share studios at the WITF Public Media Center in [[Swatara Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania|Swatara Township]] (though with a Harrisburg [[United States Postal Service|mailing]] address); WITF-TV's transmitter is located in [[Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania|Susquehanna Township]], next to the transmitter of [[CBS]] affiliate [[WHP-TV]] (channel 21).
 
On [[cable television]], the station is available on [[Xfinity|Comcast Xfinity]] channel 6 and in [[high-definition television|high definition]] on [[digital cable|digital]] channel 803. WITF's programming is relayed on a [[Low-power broadcasting#Television|low-powered]] digital [[Broadcast relay station#Broadcast translators|translator station]]: '''W34FM-D''' (channel 34) in [[Chambersburg, Pennsylvania|Chambersburg]].
 
==History==
The UHF channel 33 allocation in [[Central Pennsylvania]] was previously occupied by WEEU-TV, a commercial television station licensed to [[Reading, Pennsylvania|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 [[Hershey, Pennsylvania|Hershey]], a suburb of 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 near the [[Hershey Theatre]]. In 1982, the station moved its operations to studio facilities on Locust Lane in northeast Harrisburg. Around this time, it also changed its city of license to Harrisburg. In 2007, it moved to a purpose-built facility in [[Swatara Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania|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 television|analog]] to digital broadcasts, WITF became one of the first in the nation to meet the technological, financial and educational challenges.
 
==Digital television==
 
===Digital channels===
The station's digital channel is [[multiplexing|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! [[Display resolution|Video]]
! [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! [[Program and System Information Protocol#What PSIP does|PSIP Short Name]]
! Programming<ref name=rei/>
|-
| 33.1 || [[720p]] || rowspan=2| [[16:9]] || WITF || Main WITF-TV programming / PBS
|-
| 33.2 || [[480i]] || WITFK || [[PBS Kids]]
|}
 
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
WITF-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal over [[Ultra high frequency|UHF]] channel 33 on February 17, 2009, to conclude the [[Digital television transition in the United States|federally mandated transition from analog to digital television]].<ref name="Analog to Digital">[https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf List of Digital Full-Power Stations]</ref> The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 36, using [[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]] to display WITF-TV's [[virtual channel]] as 33 on digital television receivers.
 
WITF agreed to share its spectrum with [[Tribune Broadcasting]]-owned [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate [[WPMT]] (channel 43) following the [[Spectrum reallocation#Broadcast incentive auction|2016-2017 FCC incentive auction]] for $25 million on February 10, 2017. The proceeds were slate for the endowments with interest to be used for Central Pennsylvania media literacy program. A state wide news organization is another possibility.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sefton|first1=Dru|title=Spectrum auction nets nearly $35M for two Pennsylvania stations|url=http://current.org/2017/02/spectrum-auction-nets-nearly-35m-for-two-pennsylvania-stations/|accessdate=February 14, 2017|work=Current|date=February 10, 2017}}</ref>
 
==Programming==
===Locally produced programming===
* Various original productions[https://video.witf.org/show/witf/%5DOriginal%20Productions ]
 
 
* ''[[Various[https://video.witf.org/show/witf/]Original Productions]]''
 
* ''[[Smart[https://www.witf.org/programs/smart-talk/ witf.org/programs/smart-talk/] Talk]]''
* ''[[Transforming [https://video.witf.org/show/transforming-health/] Health''
* ''Health Smart''
 
==References==
{{reflist}}
 
==External links==
*{{Official website|http://www.witf.org}}
*{{TVQ|WITF-TV}}
*{{FCC letter|letterid=84189|hcards=yes|callsign=WITF-TV}}
*{{TVQ|W33CR-D}}
*{{BIA|WITF|TV|TV}}
 
{{Harrisburg/Lancaster/York TV}}
{{Baltimore TV}}
{{PPTN}}
{{PBS Pennsylvania}}
 
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[[Category:PBS member stations]]
[[Category:Television stations in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania|ITF-TV]]
[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 1964]]
[[Category:1964 establishments in Pennsylvania]]
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