13 Facts About WYOU

WYOU is a television station licensed to Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the CBS affiliate for Northeastern Pennsylvania.

WYOU's transmitter is located at the Penobscot Knob antenna farm near Mountain Top.

WYOU operates a digital replacement translator on UHF channel 25 that is licensed to Waymart with a transmitter in Forest City.

WYOU was purchased by Nexstar Broadcasting as its first station property in 1996.

WYOU remained a solid runner-up to WNEP through the early 1990s.

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WYOU generally did a traditional newscast whenever WBRE had programming that bumped its news back by a significant amount of time.

WYOU dropped its 5 p m show and aired two episodes of Judge Judy.

Nexstar announced on April 3,2009, that WYOU would shut down its news department effective the following day.

The secondary set at WBRE's facilities used to produce the newscasts on WYOU was eventually modified to broadcast an afternoon lifestyle show on WBRE called PA Live.

WYOU shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 22, on February 17,2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate .

WYOU serves one of the largest geographic markets in the country.

However, in March 2010, to reduce operating costs, all owned and operated translators were shut down after Nexstar determined that its new VHF digital signal for WYOU was adequate to reach the entire market without the legacy UHF translator locations.

Just across the Delaware River along the Pennsylvania–New York State border, WYOU is carried on Charter Spectrum in Port Jervis, New York, located in Orange County.