WITI

WITI may refer to:

Women in Technology International

Women in Technology International (WITI) is a worldwide organization dedicated to the advancement of women in business and technology. It was established in 1989 by Carolyn Leighton as an email-based information network business.

Leighton founded WITI in 1989 as a worldwide e-mail network for women in all technology sectors—the first of its kind in the United States. 2009 will mark the 20th Anniversary of WITI's establishment. At the time WITI was founded, Leighton was President of Criterion Research, a research consulting firm for the high-tech industry based in California, which she founded in 1984. She was also chair of the Core Competency Database Project at Stanford University.

WITI has grown from a primarily U.S. based networking group to a leading worldwide organization dedicated to empowering women worldwide to achieve unimagined possibilities and transformations through technology, leadership and economic prosperity.

History

Founded in 1989 and based in California, WITI rapidly became the leading organization in the U.S.A., and then the world for women in technology. WITI's mission was to increase the number of women in management and executive level positions, to help women become more technologically literate as well as financially independent and to encourage young women to choose careers in science and technology.

WITI (TV)

WITI, virtual channel 6 (UHF digital channel 33), is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of Tribune Media. WITI maintains studio facilities located on North Green Bay Road (WIS 57) in Brown Deer (though the studios carry a Milwaukee postal address), and its transmitter is located on East Capitol Drive (just north of Highway 190) in Shorewood.

History

Early history

The station first signed on the air on May 21, 1956, operating as an independent station; it was originally owned by Independent Television, Inc., to whom the channel 6 license was granted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on June 11, 1955. The station was originally licensed to the North Shore village of Whitefish Bay on a technicality in order to address short-spacing concerns with Davenport, Iowa station WOC-TV (now KWQC-TV, which also broadcast on channel 6) before the FCC fully finessed spacing among television station signals in different markets. In October 1956, the station affiliated with the NTA Film Network, which provided the station with 52 films from the 20th Century Fox library and syndicated programs. Among the programs aired by WITI were The Passerby, Man Without a Gun and This is Alice.