WDSE-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WDSE-TV / WRPT
city =
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding = PBS eight
analog =
WDSE: 8 (VHF)
digital =
WDSE: 38 (UHF)
WDSE (2009):8 (VHF)
WRPT: 31 (UHF)
affiliations = PBS
Wisconsin Public Television
Minnesota Public Television
airdate = WDSE: September 1, 1964
WRPT: not yet on air
location = WDSE: Duluth, Minnesota
WRPT: Hibbing, Minnesota
callsign_meaning = WDSE:Duluth-Superior Educational
WRPT: Iron Range Public Television
owner = Duluth-Superior Area Educational Television Corporation
former_affiliations = NET (1964-1970)
effective_radiated_power = WDSE:
316 kW (analog)
650 kW (digital)
WRPT:
250 kW (digital)
HAAT = WDSE:
295 m (analog)
278 m (digital)
WRPT:
167 m (digital)
facility_id = WDSE: 17726
WRPT: 159007
coordinates = WDSE:
coord|46|47|30|N|92|7|21|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
WRPT:
coord|47|22|53.1|N|92|57|15.7|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=WRPT
homepage = [http://www.wdse.org/ www.wdse.org]

WDSE-TV is an educational television station in Duluth, Minnesota, serving portions of Minnesota and Wisconsin as a PBS member station on channel 8, with studios located on campus at the University of Minnesota Duluth. WDSE is a "border station" serving residents of both Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Along with programming from PBS, Minnesota Public Television, and Wisconsin Public Television, locally produced programs such as "Minnesota Legislative Report", "WDSE Cooks", "Almanac North", "Venture North", "Native Report", "Great Gardening", "Lawyers on the Line", and "Doctors on Call" are area favorites included in the broadcast schedule. WDSE produces, broadcasts, and supplies to the networks an intensive schedule of local and regional programming.

In addition to regular television programming, WDSE broadcasts computer data on a full time basis; a service called "datacasting." The stream consists of [http://www.datacastwisconsin.org/ Datacast Wisconsin] , a service of Wisconsin Public Television. One Mbs of WDSE's 19.3 Mbs digital stream is devoted to Datacast Wisconsin.

During the school year WDSE airs educational/instructional programming from Wisconsin Public TV from 9AM to 11:30AM and 1PM to 2:00PM during daytime hours, and the overnight "block feed" for pre-recording purposes from 1AM to 3AM.

WDSE holds a construction permit to construct digital facilities on channel 8 to replace the current digital facility on channel 38 in 2009.

WRPT

WDSE holds a construction permit to construct WRPT, a new digital station in Hibbing, Minnesota to serve the Minnesota Iron Range communities.

According to an FCC filing by the station, WRPT is expected to go on the air by October 30, 2008 on channel 31, with a temporary 35.2 KW facility, with a full-power operation expected by May, 2009. [http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=664185]

History

WDSE first went on the air on September 1, 1964. Its digital signal on channel 38 first went on the air on April 28, 2003.

Digital television

The digital signals of WDSE are multiplexed:

"Channel Column Note:"
(aa/bb/cc)
* aa = Virtual
* bb = WDSE actual
* cc = WRPT actual "(not yet on-air)"

Translator stations

*Grand Marais, Minnesota - K67CT
*Orr, Minnesota - K53BH

External links

* [http://www.wdse.org/ Official site]
*TVQ|WDSE
**TVQ|K67CT
**TVQ|K53BH
*TVQ|WRPT
*BIA|WDSE|TV|TV