WPEN-LP
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WPEN-LP was a low-powered television station serving the Hampton Roads
television market broadcasting on Channel 68, later moved to channel 47 as W47CE.
The station also had two repeaters:
Former Cable Channel Positions:
Originally, WPEN carried General Entertainment TV Programming and later picked up MTV2
and, before that, The Box.
WPEN-LP and its Translators signed off in 2002—currently, their licenses have been deleted from the active FCC database, and no known channel or call letter has been reassigned to them.
It should be known that WPEN-LP is not related to the Philadelphia
radio station, WPEN (AM)
.
Hampton Roads
Hampton Roads is the name for both a body of water and the Norfolk–Virginia Beach metropolitan area which surrounds it in southeastern Virginia, United States...
television market broadcasting on Channel 68, later moved to channel 47 as W47CE.
The station also had two repeaters:
- W51BH, Gloucester, VirginiaGloucester County, VirginiaGloucester County is within the Commonwealth of Virginia in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area in the USA. Formed in 1651 in the Virginia Colony, the county was named for Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, third son of King Charles I of Great Britain. Located in the Middle Peninsula region, it...
- W62CN, Norfolk, VirginiaNorfolk, VirginiaNorfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. With a population of 242,803 as of the 2010 Census, it is Virginia's second-largest city behind neighboring Virginia Beach....
Former Cable Channel Positions:
- 62, Hampton Roads, Virginia (Cox Cable)
- 25, Chesapeake, VirginiaChesapeake, VirginiaAs of the census of 2000, there were 199,184 people, 69,900 households, and 54,172 families residing in the city. The population density was 584.6 people per square mile . There were 72,672 housing units at an average density of 213.3 per square mile...
(TCI/Cox Cable)
Originally, WPEN carried General Entertainment TV Programming and later picked up MTV2
MTV2
MTV2 is a cable network that is widely available in the United States on digital cable and satellite television, and is progressively being added to analogue cable lineups across the nation...
and, before that, The Box.
WPEN-LP and its Translators signed off in 2002—currently, their licenses have been deleted from the active FCC database, and no known channel or call letter has been reassigned to them.
It should be known that WPEN-LP is not related to the Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
radio station, WPEN (AM)
WPEN (AM)
WPEN is an AM radio station broadcast on 950 kHz. The station is licensed to Philadelphia and serves that market. WPEN is owned and operated by Greater Media and offers a Sports Talk format. The station is known as "950 ESPN"-The Early Years:...
.