WFWA

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WFWA
city =
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding = PBS 39
analog = 39 (UHF)
digital = 40 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = PBS
network =
founded =
airdate = December 5, 1986
location = Fort Wayne, Indiana
callsign_meaning = Fort Wayne
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Fort Wayne Public Television, Inc.
licensee =
sister_stations =
former_affiliations =
effective_radiated_power = 1125 kW (analog)
90 kW (digital)
HAAT = 223 m (analog)
221 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 22108
coordinates = coord|41|6|13.4|N|85|11|26.9|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.wfwa.org/ www.wfwa.org]

WFWA is a public television station in Fort Wayne, Indiana, broadcasting locally on channel 39 as a PBS member station. Bruce Haines, former president and general manager of Northeast Indiana Public Radio, is the current president and general manager of WFWA. [ [http://www.wfwa.org/staff_and_board_page/staff_and_board.html WFWA - Public Broadcasting for Northeast Indiana ] ]

History

In 1974, W39AA, a translator of WBGU-TV in Bowling Green, Ohio, signed on on channel 39. By the early 1980s, the station became a translator of Indianapolis PBS station WFYI. This low-powered repeater station was merely a placeholder, as channel 39 was allocated as a full-powered educational channel in Fort Wayne.

On March 12, 1985, a local public television group was granted the channel 39 slot from the FCC, and was granted the call letters WFWA; on December 5, 1986, WFWA signed on and started originating its own programming out of Fort Wayne.

The station currently operates from the Dr. Rudy and Rhonda Kachmann Teleplex at the corner of Coliseum Boulevard and Crescent Avenue on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. Their former studio on Butler Road continues to serve as the station's transmitter site.

Digital Television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

^* Formerly, WFWA had shown PBS Kids on channel 39.2. When the service ended in October 2005, WFWA replaced it with its own service for children.

^~ WFWA aired the Annenberg/CPB Channel on 39.4 until October 1, 2008. The satellite feed for Annenberg was discontinued at that time. [ [http://wfwa.org/ProgramUpdates/39-4youPremieres.html 39-4you information ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.wfwa.org/ Official WFWA Website]
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