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Full-power digital · channel 21 · SCRANTON, PA
| Facility ID | 73318 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | TEGNA BROADCAST HOLDINGS, LLC |
| Community of licence | SCRANTON, 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 | 41.18211, -75.87083 |
| Effective radiated power | 760 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 890.3 m above average terrain · 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.
| Website | https://www.wnep.com/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | none |
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | none found |
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| WYOU | 12 | DTV | MISSION BROADCASTING, INC. |
| WVIA-TV | 17 | DRT | NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TE |
| W28FN-D | 28 | LPD | |
| WSRG-LD | 32 | LPD | DIGITAL NETWORKS-NORTHEAST, LLC |
| WQPX-TV | 33 | DTV | ION TELEVISION LICENSE, LLC |
| WSWB | 34 | DTV | WQMY LICENSEE, LLC |
| facility 795492 | 35 | LPD |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WNEP-TV | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WNEP-TV | 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.