On March 22 , 1971 , Jonel Construction Company bought WARD-AM-FM-TV and changed their calls to '' ' WJNL-AM-FM-TV ' '' the following year , doing business as Cover Broadcasting , Inc . Having been issued a construction permit to do so in 1969 , the television station then moved to the stronger UHF channel 19 and dropped ABC programming . The channel move also brought a transmitter power increase to 215,000 watts visual , and 21,500 watts aural . Jonel also left the Franklin Street studio for a new facility located on Benshoff Hill , not too far from the transmitter atop Cover Hill in suburban Johnstown . The radio stations moved to the Benshoff Hill location in 1977 , after the Franklin Street studios were destroyed in a massive flood
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Johnstown flood of 1977
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