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This article is about the TV station serving New Jersey. Newark is the largest city in New Jersey, United States and the County seat of Essex County. For the former WNET now operated by LIN TV, see WNAC-TV. WNAC-TV, channel 64 is the primary Fox and secondary MyNetworkTV -affiliated Television station for the state of Rhode Island and Bristol
WNET
Newark, New Jersey -
New York, New York
Branding Thirteen/WNET
Channels Analog: 13 (VHF)

Digital: 61 (UHF)
Subchannels (see article)
Affiliations PBS
Owner Educational Broadcasting Corporation
Founded May 15, 1948
Call letters’ meaning National Educational Television
(forerunner to PBS)
Sister station(s) WLIW
Former callsigns WATV (1948-1958)
WNTA-TV (1958-1962)
WNDT (1962-1970)
Former affiliations Independent (1948-1962)
NET (1962-1970)
Transmitter Power 123 kW (analog)
12. Newark is the largest city in New Jersey, United States and the County seat of Essex County. The City of New York A brand is a collection of Images and ideas representing an economic producer more specifically it refers to the descriptive verbal attributes and concrete symbols such as a In Broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies (or equivalently Wavelengths assigned by a government for the operation of a particular Television Analog (or analogue) television encodes Television picture and sound information and transmits it as an Analog signal: one in which the Very high frequency (VHF is the Radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Digital Terrestrial Television ( DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and Very high frequency (VHF is the Radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. In broadcasting digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same Digital radio or Digital television station WNET, channel 13 is a television station licensed to Newark New Jersey. The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over Property, which may be an object, land/real estate, Intellectual property Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In Broadcasting and Radio communications a call sign (also known as a callsign or call letters, or abbreviated as a call, or otherwise In Broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels (or "sibling stations" in gender-neutral form are radio and/or Television stations WLIW, channel 21 is a noncommercial television station licensed to Garden City New York which serves as a secondary PBS member station for the New York City In Broadcasting and Radio communications a call sign (also known as a callsign or call letters, or abbreviated as a call, or otherwise An independent station is Television terminology used to describe a Television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not National Educational Television was an educational Television network in the USA from 1952 to 1970 In radio Telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power (ERP is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency (RF The watt (symbol W) is the SI derived unit of power, equal to one Joule of energy per Second. 4 kW (digital STA)
Height 405 m (analog)
397 m (digital)
Facility ID 18795
Transmitter Coordinates 40°44′54.4″N, 73°59′8.4″W
Website www.thirteen.org

WNET, channel 13, is a non-commercial television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey. Height above average terrain ( HAAT) (or less popularly EHAAT, Effective Height Above Average Terrain is used extensively in FM Radio and The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International The facility ID number or FIN is a unique positive integer assigned by the United States Federal Communications Commission to each domestic and international A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages A non-commercial enterprise is work that values other considerations above and beyond that of making a profit Newark is the largest city in New Jersey, United States and the County seat of Essex County. With its signal covering the three-state New York metropolitan area, WNET is a flagship station of the Public Broadcasting Service, and a primary provider of PBS programming. The New York metropolitan area, often referred to as the Tri-State Area, is the most populous Metropolitan area in the United States and is also one The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the WNET's studios and offices are located in Midtown Manhattan, and its transmitter is on the Empire State Building. See also Manhattan Midtown Manhattan, or simply Midtown, is an area of Manhattan, New York City home to world-famous commercial The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco Skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street

The license-holder is the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, which is also the parent of Long Island-based PBS station WLIW (channel 21). Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, USA, its western shores directly across from Manhattan, from which the island stretches WLIW, channel 21 is a noncommercial television station licensed to Garden City New York which serves as a secondary PBS member station for the New York City The current president and Chief Executive Officer is Neal Shapiro, the former president of NBC News. A chief executive officer ( CEO) or chief executive is typically the highest-ranking corporate officer ( executive) or administrator Neal Shapiro was installed as president of PBS station Thirteen/ WNET New York City in February 2007 NBC News is the news division of American Television network NBC, a part of NBC Universal, which is majority-owned by General Electric WNET is the most watched PBS station in the country; its sister station WLIW is the third most-watched. [1]

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History

Independent station

WNET commenced broadcasting on May 15, 1948 as WATV, a commercial television station owned by Atlantic Television, a subsidiary of Bremer Broadcasting Corporation. Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Bremer also owned two northern New Jersey radio stations, WAAT (970 AM, now WWDJ) and WAAT-FM (94. New Jersey ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. WWDJ is an AM Radio station in Boston Massachusetts on 1150 kHz 7 MHz. , now WFME). WATV was the first of three new stations in the New York market to start up during 1948, and was also the city's first independent station. An independent station is Television terminology used to describe a Television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not One unusual daytime program, Daywatch, consisted of a camera focused on a teletypewriter printing wire service news stories, interspersed with cut-aways to mechanical toys against a light music soundtrack. A teleprinter ( News agency (alternative A news agency is an organization of Journalists established to supply News reports to organizations in the News trade

On October 6, 1957, Bremer Broadcasting announced it had sold its stations for $4. Events 105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) 5 million to National Telefilm Associates, an early distributor of motion pictures for television. National Telefilm Associates (otherwise known by its initials NTA was an independent distribution company that handled reissues of American film libraries including On May 7, 1958, channel 13's callsign was changed to WNTA-TV to reflect the new ownership; the radio stations adopted these call letters as well. Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. NTA's cash resources enabled WNTA-TV to produce a schedule of programming with greater emphasis on the people and events of New Jersey, in comparison to the other commercial television stations. NTA also sought to make channel 13 a center of nationally syndicated programming and produced several such entries, notably the anthology drama series The Play of the Week; the talk show Open End, hosted by David Susskind; children's show The Magic Clown (which had previously run on New York's WABD and on the NBC network); and a popular dance program emceed by Clay Cole. David Susskind ( December 19, 1920 – February 22, 1987) was a producer of TV movies and stage plays and also a pioneer TV talk show host "The Magic Clown" was a NBC TV series which ran from 1949 to 1954 The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Clay Cole is a former host and disk jockey best known for his eponymous television dance program The Clay Cole Show, which aired in New York City on But WNTA-TV continued to lag behind New York's other independent stations -- WNEW-TV (now WNYW), WOR-TV (now WWOR-TV), and WPIX -- in terms of audience size, and NTA incurred a large debtload. WWOR-TV, channel 9 is a MyNetworkTV -affiliated television station licensed to Secaucus New Jersey, and serving the New York City metropolitan area WPIX, channel 11 is a television station in New York City. It has been owned by the Tribune Company since its inception and is currently an affiliate of the National Telefilm Associates put the WNTA stations up for sale in February 1961.

Transition

At least three prospective purchasers expressed interest in WNTA-TV. The most prominent was the New York City-based group Educational Television for the Metropolitan Area (ETMA). Comprised of local businesspeople, cultural leaders, and educators, ETMA was focused on creating an educational television outlet for New York, and believed that the non-commercial frequency the Federal Communications Commission allocated to the city, UHF channel 25, would not be sufficient. WNYE-TV, channel 25 is an independent non-commercial television station located in New York City. Prior to 1964, most viewers could not view UHF stations except with an expensive converter; only a few manufacturers made sets with built-in UHF tuning. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. With assistance from the New York State Board of Regents and New Jersey officials, ETMA had attempted to purchase channel 13 and convert it to a non-commercial station in 1957, when Bremer Broadcasting first put the station on the block; this bid was later withdrawn. History The Board of Regents of the USNY was established by statute in 1784 to provide oversight to King's College (today known as Columbia University) a private institution This time, ETMA was competing with Ely Landau, founding president of National Telefilm Associates, who had resigned from the company in order to head his own venture for this; and by David Susskind, who received financial backing from Paramount Pictures. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California.

ETMA's initial bid of $4 million was rejected by NTA, but the citizens' group remained persistent. With the support and guidance of National Educational Television already in their pocket, ETMA later received an endorsement from newly appointed FCC Chairman Newton Minow, who established public hearings to discuss the fate of channel 13. National Educational Television was an educational Television network in the USA from 1952 to 1970 Newton Norman Minow (born January 17, 1926) is an American Attorney and former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. The pendulum quickly shifted in favor of channel 13 going non-commercial, and the private firms withdrew their interest.

On June 29, 1961, ETMA agreed to purchase WNTA-TV for $6. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 2 million, and the FCC converted channel 13's commercial license to non-commercial. About $2 million of that amount came from the five of the six remaining commercial VHF stations (WPIX was the lone holdout). Very high frequency (VHF is the Radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. In addition, CBS donated a facility (TV Studio 58 at Ninth Avenue and 55th Street in Manhattan) to WNDT and NET for production uses. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network.

Outgoing New Jersey governor Robert B. Meyner, addressing state lawmakers' concerns over continued programming specific to New Jersey, and fearing the FCC would move the channel 13 allocation to New York City, petitioned the United States Court of Appeals on September 6, 1961 to block the sale of WNTA-TV. Robert Baumle Meyner ( July 3, 1908 - May 27, 1990) of Phillipsburg New Jersey was an American Democratic Party The United States courts of appeals (or circuit courts) are the intermediate appellate courts Events 3114 BC - According to the Proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The court ruled in the state's favor two months later. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Edward R. Murrow on the first broadcast of WNDT in 1962.
Edward R. Murrow on the first broadcast of WNDT in 1962.

The unsettled deal almost caused National Telefilm Associates to reconsider its decision to sell the station altogether, and NTA made plans to go forward: WNTA-TV made a play to acquire broadcast rights for the New York Mets baseball team for its inaugural 1962 season. "Mets" redirects here For the medical term see Metastasis. But faced with either consummating the transaction or seeing it cancelled, ETMA settled their differences with New Jersey officials on December 4, 1961. "December 4th" redirects here For the song by Jay-Z, see December 4th (song. Almost simultaneously, the state withdrew its block petition, and the FCC gave final approval of the transfer of channel 13. After a few last-minute issues arose to cause further delays, the transfer became final on December 22. Events 1790 - The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies Later that evening, WNTA-TV signed-off for the final time. ETMA and NET then went to work in coverting the station, which they said would return with its new format within three months.

Ten months later, channel 13 was ready to be reborn. With legendary reporter Edward R. Murrow at the helm on the maiden broadcast, ETMA -- now the non-profit Educational Broadcasting Corporation -- flipped the switch to WNDT (for "New Dimensions in Television") on September 16, 1962. Edward R Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25 1908 &ndash April 27 1965) was an American journalist A non-profit organization ( abbreviated "NPO" also "not-for-profit" is a legally constituted Organization whose objective is to support or engage Events 1400 - Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. ([1]) This move gave the New York City market its first educational station, and with a dial position on the coveted VHF band. (In many other cities, including large ones, educational stations had to make do with UHF frequencies. ) New York's non-commercial UHF channel, on the other hand, would not make it to the air for another five years. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar.

Educational station

During the transition, and after the inaugural broadcast, WNDT faced an immediate crisis. The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists was concerned about the use of teachers -- some of whom were AFTRA-certified performers -- on non-commercial television, and how they would be compensated should their work be distributed nationally. The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA is a performers' union that represents a wide variety of talent including actors in radio and television as well as radio

AFTRA called a strike the morning of WNDT's debut. Engineers and technicians who were members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers refused to cross the AFTRA picket line, leaving the station's management and other non-union employees to produce the three-hour inaugural broadcast. Template talkInfobox Union for usage -->The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW is a labor union Immediately afterwards, channel 13 went off the air again, as the strike continued for nearly two weeks. The striking workers returned WNDT to the air after ten days, and on September 28 the labor dispute was settled. Events 48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. But the station's financial resources were drained, requiring an infusion of cash from NET to help keep the station running.

NET originally wanted to merge its operations with WNDT, which would have given WNDT a direct line of funding as well as make channel 13 NET's flagship station. However, the Ford Foundation, which supported both groups, stopped the proposed mergers on at least two different occasions (in 1962, and again in 1965). The Ford Foundation is a Private foundation incorporated in Michigan and based in New York City created to fund programs that were chartered in 1936 by Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar.

Events that began in 1967 led the Ford Foundation to change its stance and push for a WNDT-NET merger. The newly-formed Corporation for Public Broadcasting (created by an act of the United States Congress) initially supported NET's network role, while providing government funding for programming. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB is a private non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress and partially funded by the United States The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 ( set up Public broadcasting in the United States, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and eventually The United States Congress is the bicameral Legislature of the federal government of the United States of America, consisting of two houses But that move was followed two years later with the establishment of the Public Broadcasting Service as the CPB's own distribution system -- a direct threat to NET's turf. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the It has been intimated that CPB's creation was an attempt to curb NET's production of controversial documentaries and replace it with a less controversial, government-friendly broadcaster, less hostile in particular to the Johnson, and later the Nixon administrations. (NET, ignoring the demand, refused point-blank to stop the production of the critically-acclaimed documentaries. ) At one point, President Nixon, enraged with NET's documentaries criticizing his administration, especially its handling of the Vietnam War, almost managed to cut NET's $20 million funding grant in half. The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia This led to the Ford Foundation brokering the merger of WNDT and NET, which took effect on June 29, 1970. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Channel 13's callsign was changed to the present WNET on October 5, 1970. Events 869 - The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople NET ceased network operations, though WNET continued to produce some shows for the national PBS schedule with the NET branding until about 1972. Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Channel 13's studios and offices were originally located in the Mosque Theater at 1020 Broad Street in Newark, with transmitter on First Mountain in West Orange, New Jersey. West Orange is a township in central Essex County, New Jersey, United States. For a short time studios were located at the Gateway Center office building in Newark. The station eventually moved its operations to Manhattan, where most television stations and television networks were based. It is currently based at a modern facility at 450 West 33rd Street, near the Lincoln Tunnel. The Lincoln Tunnel is a 15 mile (24 km long Tunnel under the Hudson River, connecting Weehawken, New Jersey and the borough Since it still operates on a frequency allocated by the FCC to Newark, it rebroadcasts New Jersey Network's nightly NJN News to meet its local programming obligations. The New Jersey Network, or NJN, is a state-wide Public television and radio network serving the U NJN News is a half hour daily broadcast Television news program by the New Jersey Network which also airs in New York City on WNET Monday through

Channel 13's transmitter facilities, including a newly installed digital transmission system, were destroyed on September 11, 2001, when airplanes hijacked by terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center towers. The World Trade Center in New York City, United States (sometimes informally the WTC or Twin Towers) was a complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan Gerald (Rod) Coppola, channel 13's head transmitter engineer, was among those who perished when the north tower collapsed. For the next ten months WNYE-TV, headquartered in Brooklyn, became WNET's surrogate transmitter and airwave (for those without cable, repeats of WNET prime-time schedules were screened on WNYE). Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. After the surrogate period, WNYE branched more into independent public television, culminating with its independence from PBS on July 1, 2003. "July 1st" redirects here For the Ayumi Hamasaki song see H (song. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Some time earlier, in February 2003, WNET completed its merger with Long Island PBS broadcaster WLIW (licensed to Garden City and based in Plainview), combining the two stations into one operation. Garden City New York is a village in central Nassau County, New York, in the USA, which was founded by multi-millionaire Alexander Turney Plainview is a hamlet (and Census-designated place) located in the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County New York, USA. While most of the two stations' operations have been merged, they still have separate studio facilities, separate governing boards, and conduct separate fundraising efforts.

Digital television

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannel Programming
13. 1 / 61. 1 main WNET/PBS programming
13. 2 / 61. 2 Kids Thirteen
13. PBS Kids (often styled all-caps as "PBS KIDS" is the umbrella brand for Children's programming aired by the Public Broadcasting Service in the United 3 / 61. 3 V-me

Analog-to-digital conversion

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009 [2], WNET will move its digital broadcasts back to its present analog channel number, 13. V-me (pronounced veh-meh is a Spanish-language television network available nationwide via basic satellite and in selected areas via digital broadcast and cable [3]

Original productions

WNET has produced and created a number of PBS shows. This includes, but is not limited to:

WNET has also produced programming for public televisions stations distributed outside of the PBS system, including:

WNET is also the co-producing entity of The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, along with Washington, D.C. PBS station WETA-TV and MacNeil-Lehrer Productions. Wide Angle is an American documentary television series produced by Thirteen/ WNET New York for broadcast on PBS and for worldwide Verna USO Girl is a teleplay by Albert Innaurato. Based on a Paul Gallico story it focuses on untalented singer-dancer Verna Vain who For other uses see News Hour. The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is an evening Television News program broadcast Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D WETA-TV is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS network Television station serving the Washington D The show started in 1975 as a local news-analysis program, The Robert MacNeil Report. Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, known sometimes as Robin (born January 19, 1931) is currently a Novelist and formerly was a Television Jim Lehrer, a frequent guest on MacNeil's show, became co-host the following year, when the show was picked up by the other PBS outlets. James Charles "Jim" Lehrer (ˈlɛrɚ born May 19 1934) is an American journalist and the News anchor for The NewsHour


See also

External links

References

  1. ^ About WLIW21 - http://www.wliw.org/about/
  2. ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
  3. ^ http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101233708&formid=387&fac_num=18795
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