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WNET (Thirteen/WNET) is an American television station licensed by the FCC to serve Newark, New Jersey. With its signal covering the Tri-state Area, WNET is an important station in the Public Broadcasting Service television system. The licenseholder is the Educational Broadcasting Corporation and the current President and Chief Executive Officer is Dr. William F. Baker. It is the most watched PBS station in the country.
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History
WNET was first licensed in 1949 as WATV, a commercial television station. In 1961, Channel 13's owner, Atlantic Television, sold the station to the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, a not for profit company, which converted Channel 13 to a non-commercial/educational station affiliated with the National Educational Television service. NET was disbanded in 1969 and replaced by the Public Broadcasting Service.
From the time it was a commercial television station until it became an educational station on September 16, 1962, Channel 13 has also been assigned the WNDT and WNTA call letters. Their 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.
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.
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.
Address
450 West 33rd Street, Sixth Floor
New York, NY 10001
Original Creations
Thirteen has also produced and created a number of PBS shows. This includes:
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External links
- Thirteen/WNET Official Website (http://www.thirteen.org/)
- Public Broadcasting Service (http://www.pbs.org/)