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Low-power digital · channel 23 · WILKES-BARRE, PA
| Facility ID | 187451 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | ZEBRA MEDIA, LLC |
| Community of licence | WILKES-BARRE, PA
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 41.18361, -75.86694 |
| Effective radiated power | 14.5 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 870.6 m above average terrain · non-directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
No website is on file for this station, so there is nothing to check. Websites come from Wikidata; a station missing there is absent from this section rather than scored zero.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| facility 795858 | 2 | LPD | |
| facility 795859 | 3 | LPD | |
| facility 795860 | 4 | LPD | |
| facility 796309 | 5 | LPD | |
| facility 796310 | 6 | LPD | |
| WBRE-TV | 11 | DTV | NEXSTAR MEDIA INC. |
| W16EV-D | 16 | LPD | |
| W27FB-D | 27 | LPD | |
| facility 797240 | 30 | LPD | |
| facility 794931 | 35 | LPD |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WBZM-LD | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WBZM-LD | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.