West Virginia Public Broadcasting

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call_letters = West Virginia Public Broadcasting
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analog = see table below
digital = see table below
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affiliations = PBS
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airdate = 1969
location = statewide West Virginia
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owner = West Virginia Educational Broadcasting Authority
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former_affiliations = NET (1969-1970)
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homepage = [http://www.wvpubcast.org/ www.wvpubcast.org]

West Virginia Public Broadcasting is the statewide PBS network of television stations in West Virginia, whose flagship station is WPBY, based in Huntington, West Virginia. Its studios are located at the Marshall University main campus. The network carries a basic PBS schedule, along with several programs of local production.

The origins of WVPB date back to WMUL on July 14, 1969, copying the call letters of Marshall's student radio station, although the television station has never been a student-run operation. It began broadcasting in 1967.

In 1980 WMUL and the public station at West Virginia University, "WWVU" (now WNPB) received new call letters to underline that the operations were managed by the state educational broadcasting authority, and not the university system.

In 1992 the state completed a microwave link that permitted it to convert WNPB and the state's third PBS station, WSWP in Beckley, West Virginia to become de facto repeaters of WPBY. WNPB broadcasts on Channel 24 and WSWP on Channel 9.

The network has low power repeaters on Channel 15 in Wardensville, Channel 17 in Mathaias, Channel 48 in Keyser, Channel 41 in rural Hampshire County and Channel 69 in Romney. Because all of these locations are in the Washington, DC television market, the station's shows are the only real source of West Virginia program content in those areas. In the past the channel showed some Marshall University and West Virginia University sports content for this reason, but has abandoned this practice due to Conference USA/Big East exclusivity agreements with commercial and cable outlets. The station is also repeated on Channel 41 in Wheeling and Channel 57 in Parkersburg, making it receivable in almost all of the state.

The current local content consists of a daily recap of the state legislative session, half hour weekly shows produced by the State Bar and by the West Virginia University medical school, and student produced news from campus weekly products from Marshall University and West Virginia State University.

tations

The network is also relayed on the following translators:
*W15AD Wardensville
*W17AL Mathias
*W41AA Wheeling
*W41AO Hampshire County
*W48AA Keyser
*W57AG Parkersburg
*W69AC Romney

Digital television

The networks digital signals are multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf]
* WSWP-TV will use channel 10 for its digital broadcasts; [http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101256758&formid=387&fac_num=71680 CDBS Print ] ]
* WNPB and WPBY-TV will remain on their respective, pre-transition channel numbers (33 and 34). [http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101256763&formid=387&fac_num=71676 CDBS Print ] ] [http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101232988&formid=387&fac_num=71657 CDBS Print ] ]

Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display virtual channels for each WVPBS station corresponding to their present analog channel numbers.

References

External links

* [http://www.wvpubcast.org/ West Virginia Public Broadcasting]
*TVQ|WPBY
*TVQ|WSWP
*TVQ|WNPB
*TVQ|W15AD
*TVQ|W17AL
*TVQ|W41AA
*TVQ|W41AO
*TVQ|W48AA
*TVQ|W57AG
*TVQ|W69AC
*BIA|WPBY|TV|TV
*BIA|WSWP|TV|TV
*BIA|WNPB|TV|TV