WMVS

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WMVS
station_
station_slogan = "There's nothing commercial about it."
"A viewer supported service of MATC."
station_branding = Milwaukee Public Television, Channel 10 or MPTV-10
analog = 10 (VHF)
digital = 8 (VHF)
affiliations = PBS
Wisconsin Public Television (sports/public affairs)
Wisconsin Educational Communications Board (instructional)
airdate = October 28, 1957
location = Milwaukee, Wisconsin
callsign_meaning = Milwaukee
Vocational
Schools
owner = Milwaukee Area Technical College
licensee = Milwaukee Area Technical College District Board
sister_stations = WMVT
former_affiliations = NET (1957-1970)
effective_radiated_power = 223 kW (analog)
25 kW (digital)
HAAT = 338.5 m (analog)
353.8 m (digital)
facility_id = 42663
coordinates = coord|43|5|45.7|N|87|54|15.3|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.mptv.org/ www.mptv.org]

WMVS (Channel 10) is a television station located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its signal covers most of southeastern Wisconsin, including the cities of Racine, Kenosha, Sheboygan, and Waukesha.

WMVS is a noncommercial public broadcasting station, and is a member of PBS. WMVS' owner, Milwaukee Area Technical College, also owns sister Milwaukee PBS affiliate WMVT. Both stations together refer to themselves collectively as "Milwaukee Public Television". The stations are separate from the Wisconsin Public Television network owned by the University of Wisconsin Extension which serves the rest of the state, although WMVT runs that network's instructional programming, and MATC/MPTV coordinate instructional television efforts for their broadcast area.

2007 marked the 50th anniversary of WMVS (and Milwaukee Public Television in general).

Digital television

:"For more on MPTV's digital television services, see Milwaukee Public Television#Digital programming.

WMVS's digital signal is on Channel 8 and carries a full 1080i signal. Formerly, WMVS-DT was carried on digital channel 35, the home of WMVT-DT, due to interference issues with Grand Rapids' WOOD-TV's channel 8 analog signal until a channel shuffle on September 1, 2008. The layout of Milwaukee Public Television's digital service is detailed further within that article.

Local productions

The station's annual fundraising auction in May (which started in 1969, and is one of the oldest station auction campaigns in existence) has been broadcast in HD since 2003, along with many of the station's weekly local programs, which include "Black Noveau", "¡Adelante!", "I Remember", "Outdoor Wisconsin", and "Interchange". "Tracks Ahead", which premiered in 1990, also is produced in HD, and is syndicated by MPTV to air on HDNet, Mark Cuban's HD-only cable channel.

The station also distributes their programs on Time Warner's video on demand service, "Wisconsin On Demand 1111" [http://www.mptv.org/insidemptv/news/detail.php?n=184] .

Trivia

*WMVS began broadcasting on October 28, 1957, as the 28th educational television station in the United States and the second in Wisconsin, after WHA-TV in Madison. Among the strongest and earliest backers of the creation of Milwaukee Public Television (over the opposition of at least some of the commercial stations) was Frank Zeidler, Milwaukee's mayor from 1948 to 1960.
*MPTV/WMVS/WMVT also has the unique distinction of having the channel numbers for both of their stations within their studio's address number, which is in Milwaukee's street numbering system (most television or radio stations with their channel number as an address use a vanity address/street not within a community's numbering system). The studios are in the Continuing Education Center of the MATC Downtown Campus, at 1036 North 8th Street.

References

ee also

*WMVT
*Milwaukee Public Television
*Milwaukee Area Technical College
*Public Broadcasting Service

External links

* [http://www.mptv.org/ Milwaukee Public Television's website]
* [http://www.mptv.org/listings/channels.php Current breakdown of WMVS-DT digital subchannels]
* [http://www.milwaukee-horror-hosts.com/MilwTV.html History of Milwaukee television]
*TVQ|WMVS
*BIA|WMVS|TV|TV