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During the late 1950s, WILK-TV was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. It was followed by Scranton-licensed WARM-TV, broadcasting on channel 16 and owned by future Governor William Scranton along with WARM radio, in February 1954. WILK-TV, operating on channel 34 and owned by WILK radio took to the air from Wilkes-Barre on September 16, 1953.
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There were originally two ABC network affiliates in northeastern Pennsylvania. It exists because wind turbines run by NextEra Energy Resources at the Waymart Wind Farm interfere with the transmission of full-power television signals. WNEP-TV operates a digital replacement translator on UHF channel 22 that is licensed to Waymart with a transmitter in Forest City. Through a channel sharing agreement with PBS member WVIA-TV (channel 44), the two stations transmit using WNEP-TV's spectrum from an antenna at Penobscot Knob near Mountain Top. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station maintains studios on Montage Mountain Road in Moosic. Investigators tell us the two children are staying with family friends through child youth services.WNEP-TV (channel 16) is a television station licensed to Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for Northeastern Pennsylvania. Both were given $10,000 unsecured bail, so both walked free. Sciortino and Licciardello were both charged Monday with endangering the welfare of children. "I mean, at the end of the day, I couldn't even leave my dogs for three days by themselves, let alone children, especially small children. "That's insane to me," said Kaylia Riley. "Who's feeding them? Who's washing their clothes? Who's making sure their homework is done? That upsets me beyond it.
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I couldn't imagine leaving my kids for 10 minutes without an adult supervisor," said Tamra Murphy. WNEP-TV spoke with a few people who work in the area, who were floored to hear about the accusations.Īt the time of the investigation, police say one child had missed 16 days of school, while the other had missed 26 days since the start of the school year. Over the next three days, while their mother was in Florida, he would occasionally stop by to drop food off for the unsupervised children. She told investigators that the children's father, Vincent Licciardello, who lives elsewhere, was watching the kids.ĭuring the investigation, police found that on Monday, March 5, Licciardello dropped the kids off at their mother's house early in the morning. She first told them she wasn't far away, but later admitted to police that she was in Florida. Police were able to contact the mother of the two children, Nicole Sciortino. Police say the place was in deplorable condition, with food, boxes, pills, and other trash on the floor. When officers arrived, they found a 10 year old and an 11 year old home by themselves. Sciortino told police that she didn't realize it was against the law to leave her two children home alone unsupervised for an extended period of time and added that she, "didn't think it was really that bad."Īccording to court papers, on Wednesday, March 7, Dunmore police responded to the home on Monroe Avenue after receiving a report of children who had been left alone for weeks. Nicole Sciortino, 30, and Vincent Licciardello, 30, were both arraigned Monday morning on those neglect charges. Investigators say the two children were knowingly left alone in the town of Dunmore for nearly three days while the mother was in Florida. (WNEP/CNN) - A Pennsylvania mother and a father are charged with endangering the welfare of their two children in Lackawanna County.