WLVT-TV (channel 39) is a PBS member television station in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States. Owned by the Lehigh Valley Public Telecommunications Corporation, doing business as Lehigh Valley Public Media, it is a sister station to Philadelphia-licensed PBS member WPPT (channel 35) and WLVR-FM (91.3 MHz, owned by Lehigh University and co-managed by Lehigh Valley Public Media). WLVT-TV and WLVR-FM share studios at the Univest Public Media Center on the SteelStacks Campus on Sesame Street in the south side of Bethlehem; WLVT-TV's transmitter is located south of nearby Allentown atop South Mountain.
History
20th century
The station first signed on the air on September 7, 1965,[3] as a member station of National Educational Television (NET), and eventually joined PBS upon its 1970 founding. WLVT-TV is commonly known as "PBS39", a reference to the main virtual channel, 39.1.