WYLN now airing LighthouseTV; application filed to move Berwick transmitter to Lebanon County
KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL - A LighthouseTV station identification airs on WYLN-TV 35 on Feb. 1, 2026.
HAZLETON – Hazleton’s television station began broadcasting as a LighthouseTV station over the weekend and its soon-to-be owners want to move the Berwick transmitter down south.
WYLN-TV 35 began airing Christian programs with a new logo two weeks after the Gans family signed a deal to sell the low-power television station and its two translators near Berwick and Williamsport.
On Wednesday, LighthouseTV filed an application to move WYLN’s translator at Berwick to the former WLYH-TV facility at Mount Gretna in Lebanon County, southwest of Lebanon. The application included a letter from the Gans family expressing consent for the application.
The deal included selling the station’s broadcast license and the three transmitters for $2 Million. A local programming and marketing agreement gave LighthouseTV control of the station’s programs while the FCC considers the application to transfer the license.
LighthouseTV owns WBPH-TV 60 Bethlehem and WLYH-TV 49 Red Lion and is headquartered in East Allentown.
The Gans family started WYLN in the late 1980’s as the Pioneer Community Television Network (PCTN), which gained traction airing local sports in the Hazleton and Berwick areas.
The station was briefly the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton/Hazleton media market’s first affiliate of the fledgling network The WB in the mid 1990’s, when the station became WYLN.
For many years, the station broadcasted the Shenandoah Valley homecoming football game, often wiring directly into the Shen-Heights Cable system to counteract signal degradation caused by the Locust Ridge Wind Farm and allowing locals to watch the game.
The station also maintained a respectable news department for much of the 2000’s and 2010’s, focusing on lower Luzerne County and the surrounding area.
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