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WILL-TV
Urbana, Illinois
Branding WILL-TV
Slogan The Broadcasting Service of the University of Illinois
Channels Analog: 12 (VHF)

Digital: 9 (VHF)
Affiliations PBS
Owner University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois)
First air date August 1, 1955
Call letters’ meaning ILLinois
Former affiliations NET (1955-1970)
Transmitter Power 316 kW (analog)
30 kW (digital)
Height 302 m (both)
Facility ID 68939
Transmitter Coordinates 40°2′20.4″N, 88°40′10.2″W
Website www.will.uiuc.edu

WILL is the callsign of the three public broadcasting stations owned by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and directly operated by its Division of Broadcasting. WILL operates out of Campbell Hall for Public Telecommunications as well as Richmond Studio.

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[edit] Radio

The university operates two radio stations directly: WILL (AM) at 580 kHz and WILL-FM at 90.9 MHz. Both are members of NPR and affiliates of Public Radio International and American Public Media.

WILL (AM) signed on in 1922; from 1922 to 1928 it had the callsign WRM.

WILL-FM, first licensed in 1941 as WIUC and changed to WILL-FM in 1954, was the first university FM license in the United States. WILL-FM has translators on 106.5 in Danville and 101.1 in Champaign.

[edit] Television

WILL-TV started operation in 1955.

WILL-TV produces a variety of local programing for the central Illinois region. One notable programing is the weekly, Illinois Gardner. The show stars University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor Dianne Noland and a panel of gardening experts.[1] Callers can call in on air and receive answers to gardening, landscaping, and horticultural questions. The shows typically airs on Thursdays at 7:00PM and is rebroadcast on Saturdays at 11:30AM.

WILL-TV also produces Prairie Fire, the A Day in Our Hometown series and Your Weather.

The WILL-TV station manager is Carl Caldwell. Caldwell is a regular seen on WILL's annual Pledge Drives.

Okemwa Monandi Ogega, a member of WILL's Youth Media Workshop from Urbana High School is trying to get some of his work on TV. He has talked with WILL Executive Producer, Mr. Szujewski about it. Okemwa Monandi Ogega is an aspiring actor, director, writer and producer. Mr. Szujewski told him it's ambitious and should take every chance he gets.

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  • In 1970, WILL-TV provided some of its programming to ABC affiliate WJJY-TV in Jacksonville, as a public service measure. WJJY would fold in 1971. In 1983, channel 14 would return to the airwaves, as PBS station WSEC.
  • WILL-TV received its largest bequest, $1 million (USD), from Lois Dickson, who had been a contributor to the station for the thirty years before her death at the age of 95 in 2004.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Illinois Gardener on WILL-TV
  2. ^ Staff. "WILL-TV Viewer Leaves $1 Million to Station", UIF Newsletter, issue 47, University of Illinois Foundation, Summer 2006, pp. Illinois Gardner Web Site through WILL. 

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Broadcast television in the Champaign-Urbana/Decatur/Springfield market  (Nielsen DMA #84)

WCIA 3 (CBS, WCFN on DT2) - WSIU 8 / WUSI 16 (PBS) - WILL 12 (PBS) - WSEC 14 (PBS) - WICD 15 / WICS 20 (ABC) - WAND 17 (NBC) - WBUI 23 (The CW) - W29BG 29/W34DL 34 (TBN) - WLCF-LP 45 (CTN/FamilyNet) - WBXC 46 (MTV2) - WCFN 49 (MNTV, WCIA on DT2) - WEIU 51 (PBS) - WRSP 55 / WCCU 27 (Fox)

Defunct stations:

WJJY 14 (ABC)
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