display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 51. WTVE was one of the first stations in the U.S. to transmit using a distributed transmission system, having received special temporary authority from the FCC to operate WTVE-DT via eight (mostly low-powered) transmitters scattered across its coverage area rather than relying on a singular full-power signal. The station formerly transmitted with on-channel boosters from sites in or near: WTVE-DTS1 Reading, Pennsylvania (225m 0.76 kW DA) WTVE-DTS2 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (155m 2.8 kW DA) WTVE-DTS3 North East, Maryland (87m 0.11 kW DA) WTVE-DTS4 Quarryville, Pennsylvania (193m 1.0 kW DA) WTVE-DTS5 Myerstown, Pennsylvania (63m 1.15 kW DA) WTVE-DTS6 Lambertville, New Jersey (95m 0.6 kW DA) WTVE-DTS7 Philadelphia (378m 126 kW DA) WTVE-DTS8 Brockton, Pennsylvania (138m 4.25 kW DA) This pattern effectively created a tailored coverage area corresponding to one large main signal centered on Philadelphia, plus a series of boosters. In late 2009, all eight boosters were upgraded to the ATSC-M/H format to be capable of mobile DTV broadcast. The station's Mobile DTV signal, which will be a simulcast of subchannel 51.1, was expected to sign on sometime in 2011; however it has not yet begun operations as of November 2013. See also Media in the Lehigh Valley References External links TVE Television channels and stations established in 1980 1980 establishments in Pennsylvania