WVIA-FM (89.9 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the NPR member station for Northeastern Pennsylvania. The station is owned by the Northeastern Pennsylvania Educational Television Association along with its sister television station, WVIA-TV, with studios in Jenkins Township, near Pittston and a secondary studio inside the Community Arts Center on West 4th Street in downtown Williamsport. It airs a mix of NPR news and talk shows, classical music in middays, jazz at night and the BBC World Service overnight.
WVIA-FM's transmitter tower is on Penobscot Knob near Mountain Top. WVIA-FM broadcasts using HD Radio technology. Its HD2 digital subchannel is "Arts Radio", airing classical music. The station owns Chiaroscuro Records and broadcasts "The Chiaroscuro Channel" on its HD3 subchannel with a jazz format.
History WVIA-FM signed on the air on April 23, 1973. It joined its television counterpart, WVIA-TV, which went on the air in 1966.
The building housing the transmitters for WVIA-FM and WVIA-TV was destroyed by fire on February 12, 2010. WVIA-FM resumed broadcasting at low power on February 17, 2010, and returned to full-power at Noon on August 3, 2010.
WVIA-FM has operated a translator at 89.3 FM in Williamsport since the late 1970s. In 2002, WVIA-FM's owners signed on WVYA, a full-power Class A station, to provide better coverage in that area. In 2010, a third full-power station, WTIO in Mainesburg, was brought online, taking over from a translator that had served the Tioga Valley.WVIA station history A fourth station joined the group in 2012, when WPAU signed on from Palmyra Township to serve the far northeastern corner of the state.Promo announcing WPAU's sign-on
Simulcasts and translators Four full-power stations are licensed to simulcast the programming of WVIA-FM full-time:
Call sign Frequency City of license Facility ID Class ERP(W) Height(m (ft)) Transmitter coordinates Service contour WVBU-FM 90.5 FM Lewisburg, Pennsylvania A 225 Covers Lewisburg, Pennsylvania WTIO 88.3 FM Mainesburg, Pennsylvania A 48 Covers Mansfield, Pennsylvania WPAU 91.5 FM Palmyra Township, Pennsylvania A 400 Covers Hawley and the Lake Wallenpaupack area WVYA 89.7 FM (HD) Williamsport, Pennsylvania A
WVIA-FM programming is broadcast on the following translators:
Call sign Frequency(MHz) City of license Facility ID Rebroadcasts W257AI 99.3 Allentown, Pennsylvania WVIA-FM W289AH 105.7 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania WVIA-FM W212AT 90.3 Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania WVIA-FM W261CA 100.1 Lewisburg, Pennsylvania WVIA-FM W235AD 94.9 Pottsville, Pennsylvania WVIA-FM W232AM 94.3 Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania WVIA-FM W289AI 105.7 Sunbury, Pennsylvania WVIA-FM W278AO 103.5 Wellsboro, Pennsylvania WTIO W207AA 89.3 Williamsport, Pennsylvania WVIA-FM
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