WPBS-DT

WPBS-DT is the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member station serving the North Country of New York state, licensed to Watertown. The station operates a full-time satellite, WNPI-DT, licensed to Norwood. The station also has significant viewership in much of eastern Ontario, Canada, including Ottawa and Kingston. Like San Diego, California's KPBS, WPBS-TV is a border station: in this case, serving viewers in both the US and Canada.

History

The St. Lawrence Valley Educational Television Council, which was organized in 1958, originally produced educational television programming to be carried by local CBS affiliate WWNY-TV. In 1971, it established an independent PBS station, WNPE-TV, using WWNY's original studios on Champion Hill as the commercial station had already relocated to a larger facility in Watertown. Full-time satellite WNPI signed on a few months later. Outgrowing the Champion Hill location itself, WNPE moved to a new building in Watertown in 1978.

Because of its large Canadian viewership, WNPE was one of the most successful PBS stations in America, with fundraising totals often exceeding those of stations in much larger markets.

WPBS

WPBS may refer to one of the following broadcast stations:

WPBS (AM)

WPBS is an AM radio station licensed to the city of Conyers, Georgia in the Atlanta, Georgia radio market. The radio station is considered a Class D AM broadcast facility by the Federal Communications Commission operating with 50,000 watts of power during the daytime, and 5,500 Watts during critical hours (around sunrise and sunset) using a non-directional antenna. The station must sign-off after local sunset to avoid interference to WHO (AM) in Des Moines, Iowa which is a clear channel station on the same frequency.

The radio station WPBS (AM) is in no way related to the Watertown, New York-based PBS member station WPBS-DT, NPR, or the Public Broadcasting Service.

The station signed on at 1050 kHz in 1979 as WCGA. The format was a locally produced and formatted CHR. It became automated as WTPO in 1986. The format became gospel as WPBE ("Praise 1040") in 1989. In September 2003, the station changed operating frequency from its original 1050 kHz to its current 1040 kHz. In May 2005, the station changed its programming format from gospel to the "Planeta X" Spanish talk radio format (which moved from WPBC).