WXXI-TV

WXXI-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WXXI-TV
city =
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding = WXXI
analog = 21 (UHF)
digital = 16 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = PBS
network =
founded =
airdate = September 6, 1966
location = Rochester, New York
callsign_meaning = XXI = Roman numeral 21
former_callsigns = WXXI (1966-1984)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = WXXI Public Broadcasting Council
licensee =
sister_stations = WXXI (AM), WXXI-FM
former_affiliations = NET (1966-1970)
effective_radiated_power = 1230 kW (analog)
180 kW (digital)
HAAT = 152 m (analog)
130 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 57274
coordinates = coord|43|8|7.6|N|77|35|1.5|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.wxxi.org/ www.wxxi.org]

WXXI is a public television station which operates on Channel 21 in Rochester, New York, and is the PBS member station for that city and the surrounding metro area. The station is owned by the WXXI Public Broadcasting Council group, which also operates WXXI-AM (1370), WXXI-FM (91.5), and Reachout Radio, a service for those with visual impairments or blindness.

WXXI's national public television productions include "Warrior in Two Worlds", "Echoes from the Ancients", "Out of the Fire", ' and "Flight to Freedom". WXXI also produces ', a weekly current-events program for schools, which airs on approximately 100 public television stations nationwide, and is the nation's longest-running instructional television program.

Digital Television

WXXI entered the digital era in September 2003 when WXXI-DT signed on with Rochester’s first full-power digital television signal. The digital channel is subdivided into four digital subchannels, which include:

* WXXI-HD (21-1), the station's HDTV channel for PBS Digital content, varying between local presentations in the format and PBS-HD's national schedule (also on Time Warner Cable 1011).

* PBS World (21-2, also airs Classic Arts Showcase from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m.), features documentary, public affairs and news programming from public television’s award-winning signature series and acclaimed independent filmmakers. (also on Time Warner Cable 524).

* Create/ThinkBright (21-3), a digital channel that carries two program streams: Create, airing from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., showcases the best cooking, travel, fine living and how-to programming public television has to offer. ThinkBright, broadcasting from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., is a statewide, education-based channel that airs two hours of commercial-free children’s programming daily at 6 p.m., and hosts thematic programming each day beginning at 8 p.m. (also on Time Warner Cable 433). Theme nights are as follows:

**Sundays – Family & Educational Nights
**Mondays – Healthy for Life Nights
**Tuesdays – Arts & Performance Nights
**Wednesday – History & Biography Nights
**Thursdays – Heritage & Diversity Nights
**Fridays – Think Globally Nights
**Saturdays – Science & Nature Nights

* WXXI-TV (21-4), a digital standard definition simulcast of WXXI's analog signal.

External links

* [http://www.wxxi.org/ WXXI-AM-FM-TV Website]
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