WHYY-TV

WHYY-TV

"For the former channel 12 in Wilmington, see WVUE (Delaware)."Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WHYY-TV / WDPB
city =
station_
station_slogan = nowrap|Wider Horizons Know WHYY
station_branding = WHYY TV12
analog =
WHYY: 12 (VHF)
WDPB: 64 (UHF)
digital =
WHYY: 50 (UHF)
WDPB: 44 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = PBS
network =
founded =
airdate = WHYY: September 2, 1957
WDPB: December 4, 1981
location = WHYY: Wilmington, Delaware/
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
WDPB: Seaford, Delaware
callsign_meaning = WHYY:
Wider
Horizons for
You and
Yours
WDPB:
Delaware
Public
Broadcasting
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers = WHYY: 35 (1957-1963)
WDPB: none
owner = WHYY, Inc.
licensee =
sister_stations = WHYY-FM
former_affiliations = NET (1957-1970)
effective_radiated_power = WHYY:
309 kW (analog)
337 kW (digital)
WDPB:
186 kW (analog)
98 kW (digital)
HAAT = WHYY:
294 m (analog)
259 m (digital)
WDPB:
195 m (analog)
196 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = WHYY: 72338
WDPB: 72335
coordinates = WHYY:
coord|40|2|30.9|N|75|14|21.9|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
WDPB:
coord|38|39|16.1|N|75|36|39.1|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=WDPB
homepage = [http://www.whyy.org/ www.whyy.org]

WHYY-TV, channel 12, is a non-commercial, PBS member station licensed to Wilmington, Delaware, and serving the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania television market. WHYY-TV's main studio and office facility is co-located with sister station WHYY-FM (90.9 MHz.) in Center City Philadelphia, and the television station maintains a secondary studio in downtown Wilmington. Both stations share a transmitter, which is located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.

WHYY-TV also operates WDPB (channel 64) in Seaford, Delaware, a full-time satellite which serves the Delmarva Peninsula.

History

A predecessor "Wilmington-based" TV station in Delaware was WDEL-TV, Channel 12 (in 1951), a Steinman station with studios and the transmitter at Shipley Road. An early cameraman and producer there was the late Donald Springer Walker who lated removed to Los Angeles, CA.WHYY-TV signed on for the first time on September 2, 1957, on channel 35. It was the 23rd educational station in the country, and the second in Pennsylvania (WQED-TV in Pittsburgh had signed on three years earlier). It was owned by Metropolitan Philadelphia Educational Radio and Television Corporation. It broadcast from a studio on Chestnut Street in Center City, which had previously been home to WCAU-TV (channel 10).

The station found the going difficult at first, in part because television sets were not required to have UHF tuning capability. Then, in 1958, WVUE, channel 12 in Wilmington, went off the air. WHYY's owners applied for the vacant channel 12 allocation in Wilmington, which was the nearest available VHF allocation to Philadelphia. The FCC granted WHYY's request to move the station to channel 12 in 1963, and WHYY signed on channel 12 for the first time on September 12. It operated from WVUE's old tower in Glassboro, New Jersey.

As part of an agreement with Delaware officials and the FCC, WHYY-TV also opened a studio in Wilmington, and began producing a newscast focused on Delaware issues, "Delaware Tonight." Although it is licensed in Wilmington, WHYY is still a Philadelphia station for all intents and purposes; to this day it identifies as "Wilmington/Philadelphia" on-air. A similar situation exists in New York City; its flagship PBS station, WNET, is licensed to Newark, New Jersey.

Later in 1963, WHYY moved its main studio in Philadelphia to the former home of WFIL-TV (channel 6, now WPVI-TV) on 46th and Market streets. In 1979, channel 12 moved to its current home on Independence Mall, first in the old Living History Center museum and theatre (which was also used for Nickelodeon game shows such as "Double Dare" and the Bill Cosby revival of "You Bet Your Life") before it was transformed into their current building in 1999 as part of the redevlopment of the Independence Mall area.

In the late 1970s, WHYY-TV moved its transmitter to the Roxborough tower farm, home to most of Philadelphia's television stations. The new tower provides at least grade B coverage as far west as Lancaster; as far south as Dover, Delaware and as far north as New Brunswick, New Jersey.

In 1984, WHYY bought WDPB and turned it into a full-time satellite of channel 12. WDPB had signed on in 1981.

Controversy erupted in the Summer of 2007 when station CEO Bill Marrazzo was cited by the watchdog group Charity Navigator as the highest paid CEO in all of public broadcasting.

eries produced

WHYY-TV presents four regular TV series for PBS stations: PBS's "Hometime", and the syndicated "Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen", "Christina Cooks" and "Flavors of America with Chef Jim Coleman" with "MoneyTrack" beginning in April 2005. These shows are produced by independent companies for WHYY. The station has also developed several TV specials, such as "The Great Comet Crash" and "Trading Women".

Currently, WHYY-TV produces four original programs: the local nightly news show "Delaware Tonight", with anchor Rob Stewart broadcasting from WHYY Wilmington studios; "Radio Times on TV", a weekly version of its daily talk show with host Marty Moss-Coane; "Experience" shorts, about Philadelphia's cultural community; and "Flicks", a three-minute movie review by film critic Patrick Stoner. The shorter version of "Flicks", "Quick Pics", is also shown on many PBS stations around the country. WHYY was also one of the first PBS affiliates to air Doctor Who.

Digital television

The station's digital channel, UHF 50, is multiplexed:

In 2009, WHYY-TV will remain on channel 12 when the analog to digital conversion is complete.http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf]

References

ee also

WHYY-FM

External links

* [http://www.whyy.org/ WHYY website]
*TVQ|WHYY
*TVQ|WDPB
*BIA|WHYY|TV|TV
*BIA|WDPB|TV|TV


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • WHYY — may refer to:* WHYY TV, a television station (channel 12) licensed to Wilmington, Delaware, United States * WHYY FM, a radio station (90.9 FM) licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States * WHYY (AM), former callsign for an AM radio… …   Wikipedia

  • WHYY-FM — Infobox Radio Station name = WHYY FM city = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area = Delaware Valley branding = WHYY 91 FM or 91 FM slogan = Radio That s Worth Your Time airdate = December 14, 1954 frequency = 90.9 (MHz) HD Radio 90.9 HD 2 for Arts Info …   Wikipedia

  • WHYY — TV 12, PBS, Wilmington, Delaware (Community » TV Stations) …   Abbreviations dictionary

  • Terry Gross — Infobox Radio Presenter name = Terry Gross imagesize = 200px caption = Terry Gross at the Georgia Tech FERST Center for the Arts, in Atlanta, November 2006. birthname = birthdate = 1951 birthplace = deathdate = deathplace = show = Fresh Air… …   Wikipedia

  • New Jersey Network — statewide New Jersey Branding NJN Slogan New Jersey Public Television and Radio Channels Digital …   Wikipedia

  • Chicxulub crater — Imaging from NASA s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission STS 99 reveals part of the 180 kilometer (112 mi) diameter ring of the crater; clustered around the crater s trough are numerous sinkholes, suggesting a prehistoric oceanic basin in… …   Wikipedia

  • Cráter de Chicxulub — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda 21°24′N 89°31′O / 21.4, 89.517 …   Wikipedia Español

  • Fresh Air — Infobox Radio Show show name = Fresh Air imagesize = 200px caption = other names = Fresh Air Weekend format = Talk radio runtime = ca. 50 min. country = United States language = English home station = WHYY FM syndicates = NPR presenter = Terry… …   Wikipedia

  • WYBE — This article is for the television station in Philadelphia. For the television station in Pinehurst, North Carolina, see WYBE CA. WYBE Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Branding MiND: Media Independence Channels Digital: 35 (UHF) …   Wikipedia

  • Media in Philadelphia — Philadelphia portal This is a list of media based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Contents …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”