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WFMZ-TV broadcasts on channel 69 and is based in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Its studios and transmitter are located on East Rock Road on South Mountain in Allentown, and it also maintains a studio inside the PPL Center sports arena and a newsroom on Court Street in Reading.
WFMZ-TV is owned by Maranatha Broadcasting Company, a locally based Allentown firm. Maranatha also owns WDPN-TV, a MeTV affiliate licensed in Wilmington, Delaware.
WFMZ-TV made its debut on the 25th of November 1976. An earlier station using the same call letters operated briefly on UHF channel 67 from December 1954 to April 1955, but channel 69 launched more than two decades later.
The 69 News Weather Channel is a continuous-loop subchannel offering regional weather, traffic cameras, and news headlines. It launched on the 5th of February 2001 and is recognized as the first all-local multicast weather service of its kind in the United States.
WFMZ produces several original local programs, including The American Law Journal (a legal call-in show debuting in 1990), The Big Ticket (high school football highlights since 1995), The Freddy Awards (a live ceremony honoring high school musicals since 2003), and Lehigh Sports Magazine (covering Lehigh University athletics since 1994). The station also produces documentaries in partnership with Julian Farris Films.
WFMZ-TV sold its standalone digital signal in the 2016 broadcast incentive auction and entered a channel-sharing agreement with WBPH-TV. Using proceeds from that sale, Maranatha Broadcasting purchased KJWP, now licensed as WDPN-TV, to carry some of the subchannels displaced by the sharing arrangement.