PBS Wisconsin

PBS Wisconsin (formerly Wisconsin Public Television or WPT) is a state network of non-commercial educational television stations operated primarily by the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It comprises all of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member stations in the state outside of Milwaukee (which has its own PBS stations.)

PBS Wisconsin
Channels
Programming
Affiliations.1: PBS (1970–present)
.2: Wisconsin Channel
.3: Create
.4: PBS Kids
Ownership
Owner
Wisconsin Public Radio
History
First air date
May 3, 1954 (1954-05-03)
Former call signs
Wisconsin Educational Television Network (1972–1986)
Wisconsin Public Television (1986–2019)
NET (1954–1970)
Call sign meaning
see table below
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility IDsee table below
ERPsee table below
HAATsee table below
Transmitter coordinatessee table below
Links
Public license information
Websitepbswisconsin.org

The state network is available via flagship station WHA-TV in Madison and five full-power satellite stations throughout most of Wisconsin. As of April 5, 2009, all stations have converted to digital-only transmissions. PBS Wisconsin is also available on most satellite and cable television outlets. WHA-TV, along with Chicago, Illinois-based public television station WTTW-TV, serve the Rockford, Illinois television market exclusively through cable television and satellite television, as Rockford is one of a few television markets in the United States that lacks a PBS station of its own.

Until the gradual move of instructional broadcasting to IPTV services, the network, as Wisconsin Public Television, was the main conduit of educational television, GED preparation and instructional television programming produced by the WECB, which aired through PBS, Annenberg Media, those stations serving portions of Wisconsin without a WPT station, and other educational television distributors. As of October 2014, the WECB now distributes this programming exclusively online, allowing the over-the-air network to carry PBS programming full-time.

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