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== Media == Greensburg, the county seat of Westmoreland County, is located close (approximately 30 miles southeast) to the city of [[Pittsburgh]] in Allegheny County and receives radio and television stations that are based out of the larger city, Pittsburgh. Locally though, Greensburg and its surrounding area are served by several local radio stations licensed to various nearby Westmoreland County communities. *Most of the local Westmoreland County radio stations serving the Greensburg area are owned by Broadcast Communications, Inc. (BCI). BCI is locally owned and operated by Greensburg, PA residents, Robert and Ashley Stevens. These local BCI stations include 103.1 WKVE (album-oriented rock), 103.9 WKHB-FM (adult contemporary), 97.5 770 WKFB (oldies), and 92.3 620 WKHB (variety including talk, classic hits, ethnic, and ministry), which originally was WHJB commencing broadcasting on October 28 in 1934 as Westmoreland County's first radio station, broadcasting and actually transmitting (during its early years) with a roof-mounted antenna system from the Penn Albert Hotel in downtown Greensburg but modifying the call sign to WKHB circa 2000 when the station upgraded its facilities to cover a much broader regional southwestern Pennsylvania area. *Renda Broadcasting also serves the Greensburg area with 107.1 WHJB (classic hits). It was originally a sister station to 620 WKHB when 620 was WHJB. The 107.1 frequency has had various call signs and formats over the years, including WHJB-FM, WOKU, WSSZ (Z107), WPNT, WJJJ and WGSM (Sam FM). The station finally adopted the call sign WHJB circa 2010. *To a much lesser degree, the translator 98.7 W254CR, which rebroadcasts the programming of 910 WXJX-AM Apollo, Armstrong County, also provides radio service with an adult hits music format known as "Jack FM", which was launched on December 31, 2018. *Greensburg's major newspaper is the ''Tribune-Review'', owned by the Tribune-Review Publishing Company. In 1992, this company founded the ''[[Pittsburgh Tribune Review]]'', a competitor to the ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]''. This occurred immediately following the demise of the ''[[Pittsburgh Press]]''. The Tribune-Review Publishing Company was owned by a noted philanthropist and conservative figure [[Richard Mellon Scaife]]. Since starting the ''[[Pittsburgh Tribune Review]]'', the original ''Tribune-Review'' that circulates in and around Greensburg has upgraded its national and international news coverage but continues to maintain a robust local news section. The Pittsburgh edition closed in 2016. The Greensburg edition remains. *LCS Hockey, a newsletter turned internationally renowned website, was founded in Greensburg. *In 2004, Greensburg attorney P. Louis DeRose published the book, Greensburg through the Arcadia Publishing Images of America Series.<ref>{{cite book | isbn=0738536520 | title=Greensburg | last1=Louis Derose | first1=P. | year=2004 }}</ref> *In 2006, Greensburg resident Rachel E. Smith published the book, Greensburg through the Arcadia Publishing Postcard History Series.<ref>{{cite book | isbn=978-0738554808 | title=Greensburg | last1=Smith | first1=Rachel E. | year=2007 }}</ref> === Greensburg in fiction === *[[Mystery novel]] writer [[K. C. Constantine]] has used various elements of Greensburg as a basis for the [[fictional town]] of Rocksburg in his novels.
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