WFEP

WFEP, virtual channel 48, is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station licensed to Possum Springs, Pennsylvania. The station is owned by Dorado Media. WFEP maintains studio facilities on Arlington Avenue in the city's Allentown section; WFEP's transmitter is located in Monroeville, Pennsylvania.

History
Channel 48 signed on the air on January 14, 1974, as an independent station. It started out running a number of popular off-network sitcoms from the 1960s and 1970s, off-network dramas and westerns, very old movies and network programming pre-empted by other stations in the market.

The station also aired a newscast in the early 1980s, a rarity at this time for stations not affiliated with the then-major networks (ABC, CBS and NBC). The station became unable to acquire newer shows and ended up with programming that no other stations wanted. Still, the shows run on channel 48 were not exactly low-budget.

Affiliating with The WB
The station dropped its independent status on January 15, 1998, and affiliated with The WB as part of a wide-ranging affiliation deal that saw then-owner the TVX Broadcast Group's owned and managed independent stations switch to the network. The station also changed its call sign to WBPM(for "WB, PossuM Springs") to reflect its new affiliation.

As a WB affiliate, WBPM aired off-network sitcoms, reality shows, court shows, talk shows and movies, in addition to WB primetime programming and cartoons from Kids' WB. After channel 48 affiliated with MyNetworkTV, the station kept the syndicated programs, but Kids' WB programming moved to WPSW as the block became part of The CW's lineup. The station's call letters were changed to WFEP, now airing infomercials and syndicated children's programming in the timeslots formerly occupied by the Kids' WB Saturday morning lineup.

MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that The WB and UPN would be shut down and replaced by The CW, a new network featuring programming from both networks. Through an affiliation agreement with UPN affiliates owned by CBS, the UPN owned-and-operated station was named the Pittsburgh affiliate of The CW and later changed its call letters to WPSW.

On September 1, 2015, WFEP was sold to Dorado Media.

Digital channels
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion
WPNT shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 48, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (the deadline was later extended to June 12).