WNEP-TV is the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

-affiliated television station

Television station

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 for northeastern Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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 licensed to Scranton

Scranton, Pennsylvania

Scranton is a city in the northeastern part of Pennsylvania, United States. It is the county seat of Lackawanna County and the largest principal city in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area. Scranton had a population of 76,089 in 2010, according to the U.S...

. It broadcasts a high definition

High-definition television

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 digital signal on UHF channel 50 from a transmitter on Penobscot Knob

Penobscot Knob

Penobscot Knob, also Penobscot Mountain, is a hill located near Mountain Top, Pennsylvania and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, that is best known as the site of many local television and radio station transmitters...

 in Mountain Top

Mountain Top, Pennsylvania

Mountain Top is a census-designated place in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the CDP population was 15,269....

. Owned by Local TV

Local TV

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, the station has studios on Montage Mountain Road in Moosic

Moosic, Pennsylvania

Moosic is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania six miles south of Scranton and northeast of Wilkes-Barre on the Lackawanna River....

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The station became a charter affiliate of Tribune Broadcasting

Tribune Broadcasting

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's new digital multicast channel Antenna TV

Antenna TV

Antenna TV is an American digital broadcast television network, primarily featuring classic television series from the 1950s to the 1990s, along with some feature films. It is owned by Tribune Broadcasting, a division of the Chicago-based Tribune Company...

 upon its launch on January 1, 2011, it's being carried on digital subchannel 16.2, replacing RTV programming on that subchannel.