WJAL

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WJAL

Hagerstown, Maryland/Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Branding	Family TV 68
Channels	68 (UHF) analog, 16 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	Independent
Owner	Entravision Communications
Founded	August 1, 1984
Former affiliations	WB
Transmitter Power	3890 kW/394 m(analogue) 6 kW/332 m (digital)
Website	www.wjal.com

WJAL is an independent television station serving Hagerstown, Maryland and south-central Pennsylvania. It is one of only six English-language stations owned by Entravision, a company better known for its ownership of Spanish-language stations across the United States.

Despite being licensed to Hagerstown, WJAL's offices are located in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and its transmitter located fifteen miles west of Chambersburg, near the town of McConnellsburg.

[edit] History

The station first broadcast on August 1, 1984, as the third television station in Hagerstown, the fourth independent station in the Washington, D.C. DMA, after WTTG, WDCA, and WCQR, and the first outside Washington. For a time in the late 1990s, WJAL became a WB affiliate. [1]

[edit] Programming

WJAL currently airs a mix of religious programming (especially on Sunday), African American and Hispanic public affairs programming, home shopping, syndicated shows, sitcom reruns, movies, and children's programs.

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Broadcast television in the Washington, D.C. market (Nielsen DMA #8)

Local Washington, DC television stations WRC 4 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2) - WTTG 5 (Fox) - WJLA 7 (ABC) - WUSA 9 (CBS) - WFDC 14 (UNI) - WDCA 20 (MNTV) - WDDN-LP 23 (DS) - WETA 26 (PBS) - WHUT 32 (PBS) - WMDO-CA 47 (TFR) - WWTD 49 (MTV Tr3́s) - WDCW 50 (The CW, The Tube on DT2) - WNVC 56 (Ind) - WIAV-LP 58 (AV/Ind) - WFPT 62 (PBS/MPT) - WZDC-LP 64 (TEL) - WPXW 66 (ION)
Local digital television channels WNVT 30 (Ind)
Local cable television channels CN8 - News Channel 8
Stations serving Hagerstown, Maryland and surrounding area WHAG 25 (NBC) - WWPB 31 (PBS/MPT) - WWPX 60 (ION) - WJAL 68 (Ind)
Stations serving Winchester, Virginia and surrounding area TV3 Winchester 3 (WHSV-DT3) (ABC) - WAZT-CA 10/WAZC-LP 16/WAZF-CA 28/WAZW-CA 48 (TBN) - W15AD 15/W17AL 17/W41AO 41/W48AA 48/W69AC 69 (PBS/WVPB) - WVPY 42 (PBS)