WTVS

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WTVS
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Detroit, Michigan
Branding Detroit Public Television
Channels Analog: 56 (UHF)

Digital: 43 (UHF)
Affiliations PBS
Owner Detroit Educational Television Foundation
First air date October 3, 1955
Former affiliations NET (1955-1970)
Transmitter Power 2090 kW (analog)
200 kW (digital)
Height 293 m (analog)
318 m (digital)
Facility ID 16817
Transmitter Coordinates 42°29′0.9″N, 83°18′43.5″W (analog)
42°26′52.5″N, 83°10′23″W (digital)
Website www.detroitpublictv.org

WTVS, branded as Detroit Public Television, is the PBS member station in Detroit, Michigan. Broadcasting since 1955, its vision statement is "educate, entertain and inspire — in partnership with our community." The viewer supported station produces many local programs including Get Up! Get Out, In the Frame: Exploring the DIA, Leaders on Leadership American Black Journal, and Am I Right among others. It is also a leading producer of fundraising programs for PBS. Detroit Public TV partners with Detroit Public Schools by managing 90.9 WRCJ-FM with a classical and jazz music format. The station is located inside the Detroit School of Arts. The station's President and General Manager is Rich Homberg and Stephen Strome presides as Chairman, Board of Trustees. WTVS is also one of only three stations that mention Windsor and London as among their primary viewing areas, with the other two being WDIV, and WMYD.

Its transmitters are located in suburban Oakland County with its studios and offices in Detroit and Wixom. It is one of five local Detroit TV stations seen in Canada on Shaw Broadcast Services and the Star Choice satellite provider. WTVS broadcasts its analog signal from the same tower that WKBD broadcasts from on Eleven Mile Rd. in Southfield at a height of 968 feet (295 m). WTVS broadcasts its digital signal from the same tower as WMYD Channel 20 and WWJ Channel 62 at 8 Mile and Meyers Road in Oak Park, Michigan at a height of 1073 feet (327 m). WTVS is one of two Detroit television stations based in the City of Detroit, the other being WDIV-TV.

On cable, WTVS can be seen on Comcast Detroit channels 3 and 97, Bright House Livonia channel 11 and Cogeco Windsor channel 67 and Wide Open West Plymouth channel 3. It can be seen in Jackson on Comcast channel 8. This station was also shown on Videotron cable television in Montreal for a short time, following the transmitter tower collapse of fellow PBS station WCFE-TV in Plattsburgh, New York.

Contents

[edit] Digital channels

Digital channels
Channel Programming
56.1 WTVS HDTV
56.2 Simulcast of WTVS-TV
56.3 Create

[edit] Criticism

As of June 2007, WTVS was listed ninth on Charity Navigator's list of "10 Highly Paid CEO's at Low-Rated Charities".[1] The station was cited as having a CEO paid an annual salary of $309,306 despite leading an operation with nearly 60 percent of its budget devoted to fund raising and administrative expenses.[2]

[edit] Coverage

WTVS is carried on most cable systems in Southeast Michigan and Southwestern Ontario. It is seen on the following systems:

Station StarChoice Cogeco Rogers Cable Comcast Charter Cable WOW! Bright House
Canada Windsor
Essex County		 Chatham
SW ON		 Sarnia London
SW ON		 St. Thomas N. Shore of L. Erie
(St. Thomas Rural)		 Ottawa Detroit Flint Lansing Brooklyn, MI Metro Detroit
SE MI		 Metro Detroit
SE MI		 Metro Detroit
SE MI
WTVS 364 67, 284 (HD) 67, 284 (HD) 12, 284 (HD) 530 (HD)1 530 (HD)1 530 (HD)1 530 (HD)2 6, 240 (HD) - - 8 - 3, 205 (HD) 11, 256 (HD)
WTVS-DT.2 (Kids Sprout) - - - - - - - - 1283 - - - - - -

WTVS is not available in Lansing (Comcast), or any system in Ohio.

Notes:

  1. Standard signal is from WQLN-TV Erie.
  2. Standard signal is from WPBS-TV Watertown.
  3. Detroit's feed is from WTVS, other areas have the national network feed

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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Broadcast television in the Detroit / Windsor market (Nielsen DMA #11)

American stations
WJBK 2 (Fox) • WDIV 4 (NBC, NBC WX+ on DT2, .2 Net Coming Mid-08) • WXYZ 7 (ABC, RTN on DT2, WX on DT3) • WDWO 18 / WHDA-LP 27 (TCT / COR) • WMYD 20 (MNTV, 4KidsTV, WCSN on DT2) • WUDT 23 (UNI) • WLPC 26 (FN) • WFUM 28 (PBS) • WPXD 31 / W48AV 48 (ION) • W33BY 33 / W68CH 68 (Ind) • WADL 38 (Ind / JTV, Word on DT2) • WKBD 50 (The CW) • WTVS 56 (PBS, Kids on DT2, Create on DT3) • WWJ 62 (CBS) • W66BV 66 (TBN) • W67AJ 67 / WLNS 6 (CBS)

Canadian stations
CBET 9 (CBC) • CHWI 16 / 60 (A-Channel) • CIII 22 / 29 (Global) • CICO 32 / 59 (TVO) • CBLN 34 / 64 (CBC) • CFTV 34 (Ind) • CKCO 42 (CTV) • CBLFT 48 / 68 (SRC) • CBEFT 54 (SRC)

Local Cable Television Channels
US: Michigan Channel (PBS, U of M) • WOLV (U of M Student TV) • FSN Detroit
Canada: Leafs TV • Sportsnet Ontario • TFO • TVCogeco Windsor (Windsor & Leamington) • TVCogeco (Chatham & Sarnia)

Defunct television stations
Comcast Local • PASS Sports • WJMY 20 • WPAG 20 (DuMont/Ind)

Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations
Reception may vary by geographical location; some stations may be available only on cable
Toledo: WTOL 11 (CBS) • WTVG 13 (ABC / News / AW) • WNWO 24 (NBC / RTN / WX+) • WGTE 30 (PBS) • WUPW 36 (Fox) • WLMB 40 (Ind)
Mid-Michigan: WNEM 5 (CBS / MNTV) • WJRT 12 (ABC) • WEYI 25 (NBC) • WSMH 66 (Fox)
Lansing: WILX 10 (NBC) • WKAR 23 (PBS) • WSYM 47 (Fox) • WLAJ 53 (ABC)
Cleveland: WKYC 3 (NBC) • WEWS 5 (ABC) • WJW 8 (Fox) • WOIO 19 (CBS) • WUAB 43 (MNTV) • WBNX 55 (The CW) • WQHS 61 (UNI)
London: CFPL 10 (A-Channel)
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PBS Member Stations in the state of Michigan
See also: ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, CW, MyNetworkTV and Other stations in Michigan