WNIN

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WNIN
Evansville, Indiana
Channels Analog: 9 (VHF)

Digital: 12 (VHF)

Affiliations PBS
Owner WNIN Tri-State Public Media, Inc.
(Tri-State Public Teleplex, Inc.)
First air date March 5, 1970
Call letters’ meaning channel NINe
Sister station(s) WNIN-FM
Former affiliations NET (1970)
Transmitter Power 316 kW (analog)
30 kW (digital)
Height 304 m (analog)
285 m (digital)
Facility ID 67802
Transmitter Coordinates 37°59′1″N, 87°16′13″W
Website www.wnin.org

WNIN is a public television station in Evansville, Indiana, broadcasting locally on channel 9 as a PBS member station. The station is owned by WNIN Tri-State Public Media, Inc, who also owns sister station WNIN-FM, the local NPR member station.

WNIN also (partially) programs and transmits 2 local cable channels- WNIN Create and WNIN Lifelong Learning (an Annenberg CPB channel), as well as a passthru of the national PBS HD channel. WNIN Lifelong Learning airs live local Vanderburgh County and Evansville City government meetings produced off-site inside the Carpenter House via remote-controlled cameras located in the Vanderburgh County Civic Center.

The current local programs produced by WNIN include Lawmakers and Shively & Shoulders which air weekly on WNIN TV and WNIN Lifelong Learning.

The station broadcasts from The Carpenter House, which is on the United States National Register of Historic Places.

David Dial is the general and regional manager for WNIN.

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