New Hampshire Public Television
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| New Hampshire Public Television | |
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| statewide New Hampshire | |
| Branding | NHPTV |
| Slogan | See the Difference |
| Channels | Analog: see table below |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | University of New Hampshire |
| First air date | July 6, 1959 |
| Call letters’ meaning | see table below |
| Former affiliations | NET (1959-1970) |
| Transmitter Power | see table below |
| Height | see table below |
| Facility ID | see table below |
| Transmitter Coordinates | see table below |
| Website | www.nhptv.org |
New Hampshire Public Television is a television company and public broadcasting mini-network in New Hampshire, licensed to the University of New Hampshire and is part of the Public Broadcasting Service network. Established in 1959, its head office is located in on the University of New Hampshire campus in Durham, New Hampshire.
NHPTV is overseen by a twelve-member board of governors, which is a subcommittee of the USNH Board of Trustees. However, through an agreement with UNH, the University has no editorial control over its programming.
The station is available over the air in nearly 75 percent of New Hampshire, and is available on cable in parts of Massachusetts (including Boston) and Maine (including Portland). It is available on DirecTV and Dish Network's Boston, Portland and Burlington/Plattsburgh feeds, reaching a potential audience of nine million people.
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[edit] Programming
Nearly all NHPTV viewers also receive another PBS station on cable or satellite (in some cases more than one). The state is split between the Boston, Portland and Burlington/Plattsburgh markets As a result, NHPTV has elected to maintain an "out of pattern" program schedule for most PBS national programs, so that they do not air on the same day and time as they do on Boston's WGBH-TV, MPBN, Vermont Public Television or WCFE-TV.
NHPTV produces a number of local series, including:
- NH Outlook
- New Hampshire Crossroads
- University of New Hampshire Hockey
- Wildlife Journal (co-produced with the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department)
The cooking show Ciao Italia with Mary Ann Esposito was formerly distributed by NHPTV and produced at the NHPTV studios in Durham.
[edit] Stations
As of 2008, the NHPTV stations are:
| Station | City of license | Channels (Analog/ Digital) |
First air date | Call letters’ meaning |
ERP (Analog/ Digital) |
HAAT (Analog/ Digital) |
Facility ID | Transmitter Coordinates |
| WENH-TV | Durham | 11 (VHF) 57 (UHF)2 |
July 6, 1959 | Educational New Hampshire | 316 kW 589 kW |
301 m 216 m |
69237 | |
| WEKW-TV | Keene | 52 (UHF) 49 (UHF) |
May 21, 1968 | Educational Keene Western New Hampshire |
95.5 kW 43 kW |
329 m 330 m |
69271 | |
| WLED-TV | Littleton | 49 (UHF) 48 (UHF) |
February 19681 | Littleton EDucational | 93.3 kW 45 kW |
390.1 m 388 m |
69328 |
Notes:
- 1. The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says WLED signed on February 7, while the Television and Cable Factbook says it signed on February 8.
- 2. WENH-DT will be returning to VHF channel 11 post-transition.
[edit] Low-power stations
| Station | Channel | City |
| W18BO | 18 | Pittsburg |
| W50DP-D1 | 50 | Hanover |
1Formerly W15BK, which operated on analog channel 15 (it flash-cut to digital on September 4, 2007).
[edit] Former stations
In the summer of 1981, New Hampshire Public Television was suffering a significant financial crisis. These stations were turned off for good as a result:
| Station | City of license | Channel | Call letters’ meaning |
Facility ID | Transmitter Coordinates |
| WHED-TV | Hanover | 15 (UHF)1 | Hanover EDucational | 69303 | |
| WEDB-TV | Berlin | 40 (UHF) | EDucational Berlin | 69056 |
1However, NHPTV subsequently returned to operating on this channel with low-power station W15BK from 1994 to 2007 (superseded by W50DP-D)
[edit] Low-power station
| Station | Channel | City |
| W59AB | 59 | North Woodstock |
With the exception of WHED, these stations have been superseded by cable, as local operators carry WENH and therefore NHPTV.
[edit] References
- New Hampshire Public Television. Volunteer Action Centre. Retrieved on August 4, 2005.
- Southern New Hampshire TV Market. Archives at BostonRadio.org. Retrieved on September 22, 2005. (imaged from Internet Archive, as the site no longer carries dial pages)
- Upper Valley TV Dial. Archives at BostonRadio.org. Retrieved on September 22, 2005. (another dial page for same website, so it's also down)
- WHED-TV, Channel 15, Hanover, NH. RadioDXer.com/Peter Q George, Joe Gallant. Retrieved on September 22, 2005.
- WEDB-TV, Channel 40, Berlin, NH. RadioDXer.com/Peter Q George, Joe Gallant. Retrieved on September 22, 2005. (same as above, but with WEDB footnote and not one for WHED/W15BK)
[edit] External links
- NHPTV web site
- UHF Morgue: WEDB, WHED
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WENH-TV
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WLED-TV
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WEKW-TV
- Query the FCC's TV station database for W18BO
- Query the FCC's TV station database for W50DP-D
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WENH-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WLED-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WEKW-TV
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