Overview
Prior to the debut of channel 69, an earlier television station that held the WFMZ callsign, which was also based in Allentown, operated on UHF channel 67 from December 1954 to April 1955. The present-day WFMZ on UHF channel 69 first signed on the air on November 25, 1976, with its initial programming featuring a mix of religious and general interest programming, as well as two daily local newscasts.
WFMZ mainly serves the Lehigh Valley region and Berks County, though it has significant cable coverage in much of the Philadelphia market. The station's over-the-air signal is moderately receiveable in some counties in northwestern New Jersey that are part of the New York City market. WFMZ also provides local news coverage to and has cable carriage in Carbon, Monroe and southeastern Schuylkill Counties within the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton television market.
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