Category:WFMZ-TV, Allentown, Pennsylvania

WFMZ-TV, Channel 69 in Allentown went on the air 26 November 1976. It was first organized in June 1976 by Richard Dean, president of the then WFMZ-FM radio station. WFMZ-FM had previously operated a television station with the same call signs on Channel 57 in the 1950s which had a short life. The station received approval from the FCC in April 1976, and construction was begun for a studio on East Rock Road, at the top of South Mountain in Salisbury Township. The station was to be an independent commercial station, and would not compete with the existing WLVT-TV, channel 39 which had been a public broadcasting station in Bethlehem since its beginnings in 1965.

Unlike the previous television venture by WFMZ, the station would be carried primarily on local cable systems that did not exist in the 1950s with the previous WFMZ-TV. Although on-air transmissions for Channel 69 was made possible by a 910-foot antenna transmitter built at the site on South Mountain, as well as a television studio also built at the site nest to the existing radio station.

The initial on-air personalities for Channel 69 were puppeteer Tom Lohrman, who was the host for all children's shows, news anchorman Jim Dougherty and David Noll, Jeff Werley on sports and Cathy Crane with the weather. The current news anchorman, Rob Vaughn, joined the station in 1987.