WNET
Newark, New Jersey / New York, New York
Branding	Thirteen/WNET
Slogan
Analog channel	13 (VHF)
Digital channel	61 (UHF)
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	Educational Broadcasting Corporation
Founded	January 2, 1948
Call letters meaning	National Educational Television (forerunner to PBS)
Former callsigns	WATV (1948-58) WNTA-TV (1958-62) WNDT (1962-70)
Former affiliations	Independent (1948-62)
Effective radiated power
Website	www.thirteen.org

WNET (Thirteen/WNET) is an American television station licensed by the FCC to serve Newark, New Jersey. With its signal covering the tri-state New York metropolitan area, WNET is a flagship station of the Public Broadcasting Service television system. Along with stations such as WGBH in Boston and WETA in Washington, WNET is a primary provider of PBS programming. Among its contributions are Nature, the Charlie Rose show, Great Performances, Live From Lincoln Center, and American Masters. Thirteen WNET logo This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Skyline of downtown Newark as seen from the Newark Bay Bridge. ... Nickname: The Big Apple Motto: Official website: City of New York Location Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ... McDonalds, represented by the Golden Arches, is one of the worlds most famous brands In marketing, a brand is the symbolic embodiment of all the information connected with a product or service. ... ... Analog television encodes picture information by varying the voltages and/or frequency of the signal. ... Very high frequency (VHF) is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz (wavelength 10 m) to 300 MHz (wavelength 1 m). ... Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels (SDTV) and/or better quality of picture (EDTV, HDTV) and sound (AC3, Dolby Digital) through a conventional aerial instead of a satellite dish or cable connection. ... This article is about the radio frequency. ... An affiliate is an entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity. ... The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid... An affiliate is an entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity. ... In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or ERP is determined by subtracting system losses from system gains. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia Website. ... A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts both audio and video to television receivers in a particular area. ... The FCCs official seal. ... Skyline of downtown Newark as seen from the Newark Bay Bridge. ... There are many places in the United States known as tri-state areas where three states meet at one point or in close proximity to each other. ... The metropolitan area of New York City, also called Greater New York or Greater New York City is defined by the U.S. Census as the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT Metropolitan Statistical Area based on broad social and economic integration, which is divided into... The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... WGBH is an established public television and public radio broadcast service located in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Orthoptera (related to Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids) The Weta family comprises over one hundred (generally) large insect species endemic to the New Zealand archipelago. ... Nature is the title of a long-running history television program that is broadcast by United States public television stations. ... This page is about the journalist; there is also a Charlie Rose (congressman) from North Carolina. ... Great Performances was a television series devoted to the performing arts which ran on the US television station PBS from 1972. ... American Masters is a PBS television show which does biographies on what it judges are the best artists, actors and writers of the United States. ...

The licenseholder is the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, which is also the parent of Plainview, New York-based PBS station WLIW (channel 21). The current President and Chief Executive Officer is Dr. William F. Baker, who owns an extensive collection of historic microphones. It is the most watched PBS station in the country. Plainview is a hamlet (and census-designated place) located in Nassau County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 25,637. ... WLIW is a Long Island PBS affiliate that serves the New York City area. ...

History

WNET was first licensed in 1948 as WATV, a commercial television station. In 1958 its original owner, Atlantic Television, sold the station to National Telefilm Associates, an early distributor of motion pictures and television programs. The call letters were changed to WNTA-TV to reflect the new ownership. But channel 13 continued to lag behind New York's other independent stations -- WNEW-TV, WOR-TV, and WPIX -- in terms of programming, and popularity among viewers. By the start of 1962, it became clear that the New York market, despite being the largest in the country, could not support four independent stations. The Educational Broadcasting Corporation, a not for profit company, bought WNTA and converted channel 13 into WNDT, a non-commercial/educational station affiliated with the National Educational Television service. The switch occurred on September 16, 1962. 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... WNYW, FOX5 is the flagship television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in New York City. ... WWOR-TV Channel 9 is the UPN Television affiliate serving the New York City DMA, with studios and license in Secaucus, New Jersey. ... WPIX (WB 11) is a television station in New York City. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ... The color NET logo was incorporated into a model building at the beginning and end of Mister Rogers Neighborhood from 1969 to 1970. ... September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). ...

In 1970 the Ford Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting threatened to withdraw funding from NET if it did not merge with the station. The threat was an attempt to curb NET's production of controversial documentaries and replace it with a less controversial broadcaster, less hostile to the Nixon administration. NET was disbanded later that year, and was replaced by the Public Broadcasting Service. Channel 13's call sign was changed to the present WNET shortly thereafter. 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Ford Foundation is a US charitable foundation created to fund programs that promote democracy, reduce poverty and promote international understanding (see mission statement). ... The Corporation for Public Broadcastings logo The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is a private non-profit corporation which is chartered and funded by the United States Federal Government to promote public broadcasting. ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ... The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ...

Channel 13's studios and offices were originally located in West Orange, New Jersey, then in the Mosque Theater, and then for a short time at the Gateway Center office building, both in Newark, New Jersey. The station eventually moved its operations to New York City, New York, where most television stations and television networks were based. Map of West Orange Township in Essex County West Orange is a township located in Essex County, New Jersey. ... Skyline of downtown Newark as seen from the Newark Bay Bridge. ... New York, New York redirects here. ...

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. Gerald (Rod) Coppola, Channel 13's head transmitter engineer, was among those who perished when the north tower collaped. For the next ten months, nearby 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). After the surrogate period, WNYE branched more into independent public television, culminating July 1, 2003. The divorcement of WNYE from the network made WNET the only PBS station in New York City. The World Trade Center on fire The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. ... The World Trade Center in New York City (sometimes informally referred to as the WTC) was a complex of seven buildings designed by Japanese-American architect Minoru Yamasaki and leased by Larry Silverstein from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey around a central plaza, near the south... WNYE-TV is the TV station of the New York City Board of Education, with studios in Downtown Brooklyn. ... For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In February 2003, WNET completed the merger with Long Island PBS broadcaster WLIW (licensed to Garden City, New York and headquartered in Plainview, New York), combining the two stations into one operation and licensee. Look up February in Wiktionary, the free dictionary February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... WLIW is a Long Island PBS affiliate that serves the New York City area. ... The Village of Garden City, New York is located in Nassau County, New York in the USA. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 21,672. ...

Original Creations

Thirteen has also produced and created a number of PBS shows. This includes:

• THE BRAIN
• THE MIND
• Charlie Rose
• Cyberchase
• New York: A Documentary Film (with WGBH)
• Reel New York
• Wide Angle

This page is about the journalist; there is also a Charlie Rose (congressman) from North Carolina. ... Cyberchase is a childrens television show on PBS Kids GO!, produced by Thirteen/WNET New York and Nelvana. ... New York: A Documentary Film is a seven-part American documentary on the history of New York City produced by Ric Burns that originally aired in the U.S. on PBS. The first four two-hour installments, which covered the history of the city from its founding to the turn... WGBH is an established public television and public radio broadcast service located in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Wide Angle is a weekly one-hour PBS series hosted by Bill Moyers and broadcast via the WNET PBS station since 2002. ...

Ident and Logo Gallery

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External links

• Official Site
• Public Broadcasting Service
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WNET