WJAL

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WJAL
Hagerstown, Maryland/Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
Branding Anime 68
Analog channel 68 (PSIP)
Digital channel 16 (UHF)
Affiliations 68.1 Anime National/The Baptist Channel/ShopNBC/Shinnomundo
68.2 Animovie
68.3 JTN (via WIAV-LP)
68.3 FUNi+
68.4 Coast to Coast TV
68.6 Anivision
68.7 ON-ANIME
68.8 Weather Tube
68.9 Anime Music Television
68.10 Asahi America
Affiliations Anime National
The Baptist Channel
ShopNBC
Shinnomundo
Owner Entravision Communications (Under LMA w/Taylor Media Stations Group)
Founded August 1, 1984
Call letters meaning
Former affiliations The WB, Independent, Daystar


WJAL is an Anime National Affiliate serving Hagerstown, Maryland and south-central Pennsylvania. It is one of only six English-language stations owned by Entravision (with a local marketing agreement with Taylor Media Stations Group), 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] In 2007, Entravision Communications made a agreement with Taylor Media Stations Group and affiliated with Anime Tube.


[edit] Programming

WJAL currently airs a mix of religious programming from The Baptist Channel (especially on Sunday), Hispanic programming from Shinnomundo, home shopping from ShopNBC, Anime National prime-time, sitcom reruns, movies, and children's programs.

[edit] Repeaters

  • WMDE (Semi-Satellite station in Annapolis, MD)
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