What city does the channel wtae service and who are they affiliated with?”
WTAE-TV (Digital channel 51, displayed as PSIP virtual channel 4) is the ABC affiliate serving the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and serving as a secondary ABC affiliate for the Wheeling/Steubenville and Clarksburg/Weston, West Virginia market areas. Its transmitter is located in Buena Vista, Pennsylvania and its studios are located in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. Channel 4, originally allocated to Irwin, Pennsylvania (in Westmoreland County), was moved to Pittsburgh in the mid 1950s. This came about because Pittsburgh mayor David L. Lawrence had petitioned the FCC relentlessly for a fourth VHF channel in the area. It is short-spaced to other channel 4 stations in Columbus, Ohio (WCMH-TV, which is NBC), Buffalo, New York (WIVB-TV, which is CBS), and Washington, D.C. (WRC-TV, an NBC O&O), with the tower located southeast of the city as a result. WTAE-TV signed on the air on September 14, 1958 as Pittsburgh’s ABC affiliate. From the beginning, it has been owned by the
