PAFootballnews.com and CWTAP announce partnership!

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Billy Splain | June 30, 2025

The owner of PAFootballnews.com, Billy Splain, and the owner of the television station CWTAP Alex Fydryszewski, have joined into a partnership. PFN will be the official football content provider for CWTAP.

Plans are already in place for programming covering high school and college football to be produced and provided to CWTAP by the staff at PFN. Several shows, including PFN’s popular weekly in-season show “The STATE of PA Football” (which will be aired live on CWTAP), will help the channel to highlight teams, games, players, coaches and football communities throughout the state of Pennsylvania.

Billy Splain shared “As the owner of PFN, I’m very excited to make this announcement with Alex. We’ve been friends for many years now, we worked together when he was in Pittsburgh and I look forward to continuing that relationship. PFN is heading exactly where I envisioned when I took over the site in 2018. With coverage waning at the local levels due to cutbacks and media companies folding, PFN gives those areas a chance for their teams/players to continue to be recognized on a national level“.

Alex Fydryszewski says “This is an exciting time for myself, the CWTAP family and our viewers and communities. We realize that football, especially high school football, brings in viewers due to the loyalty and enthusiasm fans have for their teams. PFN is the absolute Gold Standard when it comes to providing coverage of high school football. This partnership will be a great addition to our sports coverage. CWTAP plans to carry a live game each week in the Allentown area so having a site like PFN promote those games is awesome. We look forward to promoting PFN as well as having them promote our station”!

What is CWTAP?

CWTAP is a locally owned and operated cable television station with a nearly four decade lineage of success. The station was founded by the late Jeff Tapler, who was known across the region as “Uncle Jeffrey”.

In early 2025, the station was sold to its current ownership group, under the management of the Fydryszewski family. Alex Fydryszewski, the general manager, is a Lehigh Valley broadcasting veteran who served CWTAP in a sales and program management role under Uncle Jeffrey’s ownership.

Alex cut his teeth in broadcasting and eventually rose to the title of General Manager at WGPA Sunny1100 under the guidance of it’s owner, the late Jolly Joe Timmer. After Joe’s passing, Alex managed business development for CWTAP for several years and also brings experience from time spent as a news reporter at iconic KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh.Our studio and offices are located in Bangor, Pennsylvania.

What’s on CWTAP?

CWTAP provides a number of in-house productions which entertain, interpret and inform the community, including our daily news productions, Vibe Of The Valley, Main Street Matters and others.

What is the reach of CWTAP?

CWTAP has reached MILLIONS of viewers via their carriage on Service Electric and Blue Ridge Cable systems throughout the vast majority of Northeastern Pennsylvania and Northwestern New Jersey. Their footprint extends across 30+ counties in Pennsylvania, as well as border counties of Northwestern New Jersey along the Delaware River. PFN has a reach of well over 2 million viewers on their website and 10s of millions of impressions through their social media.

CWTAP has coverage and reach into the following TV markets…
New York(#1)
Philadelphia(#4)
Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York(#43)
Scranton-Wilkes Barre(#56)
…as well as the Northumberland county area

Viewership for CWTAP is historically strong and there have been a number of reporting periods in the past where the station has appeared on Philadelphia TV Market ratings sheets, driven by their popularity in Northampton, Lehigh, Bucks, Montgomery and Berks counties.

Why should you partner with CWTAP and PFN?

Their hyper local coverage means you’re reaching the Main Street viewing audience. Community coverage brought to the viewers by partners within the community. Your message and brand will be reaching an audience that seeks to support local businesses. The features accessible to their sponsors, from social media branding to interview segments on cwtap daily news broadcasts, Main Street Matters and Vibe Of The Valley, bring added visibility and awareness to your business.

From a partnership investment perspective, the CWTAP/PFN cost-per-impression is among the most business-friendly pricing models in the entire broadcasting field in PA.

Opportunities:

Both PFN and CWTAP have opportunities to be a part of this great team through internships. High school and college students have an opportunity to learn the ins and outs of production, video, photography, journalism and more.

More about those internships HERE

Visit CWTAP Online: http://www.cwtaptv.com

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