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WYCC-TV and WYCC-DT are the broadcast call letters of a Public Broadcasting System television station in Chicago, Illinois. It brands itself as Wise TV WYCC and is found on analog channel 20 and digital channel 21. Its transmitter is atop the John Hancock Center, one of the tallest buildings in the United States. Chicago has another Public Broadcasting System television station, WTTW-TV. Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States and the largest inland city in the country, with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...
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Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States and the largest inland city in the country, with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...
State nickname: Land of Lincoln, The Prairie State Other U.S. States Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Governor Rod Blagojevich Official languages English Area 149,998 km² (25th) - Land 143,968 km² - Water 6,030 km² (4. ...
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The television station is funded and governed by guidelines provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Funding is also provided by member donations, collected throughout the year and through pledge drives. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a private non-profit corporation which is chartered and funded by the United States Federal Government to promote public broadcasting. ...
WYCC-TV and WYCC-DT claims to be the largest minority-owned and minority-operated public television station. It also claims to be, according to the Nielsen Station Index, the fastest growing television station in its Chicago market area. It reaches 3.5 million homes in Chicago and 6 million homes in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. It averages 750,000 viewers each television broadcast season. State nickname: The Hoosier State Other U.S. States Capital Indianapolis Largest city Indianapolis Governor Mitch Daniels Official languages English Area 94,321 km² (38th) - Land 92,897 km² - Water 1,424 km² (1. ...
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WYCC-TV and WYCC-DT has a special relationship with the City Colleges of Chicago in designing programming. The television station offers distance learning courses, when viewed may be credited towards an associate degree at any of the City Colleges of Chicago. The city colleges also uses WYCC-TV and WYCC-DT to air informational programs for neighborhood outreach and community service. Distance Learning is learning carried out apart from the usual classroom setting. ...
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WYCC-TV and WYCC-DT also has a special relationship with public schools in the region through the Illinois High School Association. The television station retains exclusive rights to air high school athletic programming including the football championships and boys and girls basketball tournaments. The television station bills the series of championships and tournaments as The Season of Champions.
Programming
British and Irish WYCC-TV and WYCC-DT is the principal purveyor of British and Irish television programs in the area. Its sister station WTTW-TV shares the distinction. Ballykissangel, an Irish comedy soap opera is aired twice weekly on WYCC-TV and WYCC-DT. Early episodes are centered around the tortured love story between a pub owner and a Roman Catholic priest. Other favorites include British comedies: Are You Being Served?, Fawlty Towers and Keeping Up Appearances. The television station markets its British comedy block of programming as Britcoms. Ballykissangel is a BBC television drama set in Ireland. ...
Comedy is the use of humour in the performing arts. ...
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The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...
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Are You Being Served? was a British sitcom broadcast from 1972 to 1985. ...
The cast of Fawlty Towers, clockwise from top: Basil Fawlty (John Cleese), Sybil Fawlty (Prunella Scales), Manuel (Andrew Sachs) and Polly Sherman (Connie Booth) Fawlty Towers was a British sitcom made by the BBC and first broadcast in 1975. ...
Keeping Up Appearances title card Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth Bucket, with Clive Swift, who played her husband Richard. ...
Children As a Public Broadcasting Service television station, WYCC-TV and WYCC-DT provide children's programming throughout the weekdays despite its overall focus on adult education. Favorites include Clifford the Big Red Dog whose lead character was voiced by John Ritter. Clifford the Big Red Dog is one of the most enduring childrens book series of 20th-Century America. ...
John Ritter John Ritter (September 17, 1948 – September 11, 2003) was an American actor. ...
News WYCC-TV and WYCC-DT offers comprehensive international and national news coverage. It offers BBC World News broadcast from London and Washington twice daily as well as a news program broadcast from Ireland. Popular news talk shows include those hosted by Charlie Rose, John McLaughlin and Tavis Smiley. Attempts at local news programming have been made with a talk show focusing on Illinois politics, broadcast from the floors of the Illinois General Assembly in Springfield. BBC News and Current Affairs (sometimes abbreviated BBC NCA) is a major arm of the BBC responsible for the corporations news gathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online. ...
The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...
Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United...
Charlie Rose (born January 5, 1942 in Henderson, North Carolina) is an American television interviewer and journalist. ...
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