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WNEP-TV, channel 16, is the ABC affiliate serving northeastern Pennsylvania from Scranton and Wilkes-Barre - one of the most consistently successful local stations in the United States. Owned by Tegna, the station group taken over by Nexstar Media Group in 2026, it has led the ratings in its market for most of the last four decades, and its live signal streams online.

From Two Rivals to One Dominant Station

Channel 16's history began as two competing ABC affiliates: WILK-TV in Wilkes-Barre, on the air from 1953, and WARM-TV in Scranton from 1954, both losing money in a market split by the two cities' rivalry. They merged in October 1957 into a single station, WNEP-TV, keeping the wider-reaching channel 16 signal. After an employee-led group bought the station in 1973, its news director rebranded it as the station for "Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania", added the market's first news helicopter and extended coverage into remote counties - a strategy that carried WNEP to first place by the late 1970s, a position it has held almost continuously ever since. Ownership passed through Taft Broadcasting, The New York Times Company and Tribune before Tegna acquired the station in 2019.

Newswatch 16, Talkback 16 and Weekend Programs

The station's newscasts, branded Newswatch 16, are among the highest-rated in the United States - by Nielsen measurements WNEP attracts more viewers than the market's other stations combined, with 41 hours of locally produced news each week from early morning to the 11 p.m. edition. The long-running viewer-response segment Talkback 16 and live Pennsylvania Lottery drawings are recurring fixtures. Two in-house programmes fill the weekend grid: Pennsylvania Outdoor Life, devoted to hunting and fishing across the state, and Home & Backyard, covering do-it-yourself projects, cooking and gardening. WNEP serves one of the largest coverage areas of any station east of the Mississippi - roughly fifteen mountainous counties - through a channel-sharing arrangement with PBS member WVIA-TV and a network of translators, while its second digital subchannel, WNEP 2, carries the Antenna TV classic-comedy network.

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