WNET facts for kids
Quick facts for kids WNET |
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Newark, New Jersey | |
City of license | Newark, New Jersey |
Branding | THIRTEEN |
Slogan | Media with impact. |
Channels | Digital: 13 (VHF) (shared with WNDT-CD and WMBQ-CD; to move to 12 (VHF)) |
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Owner | WNET.org (WNET) |
Founded | April 1947 |
First air date | May 15, 1948 | (as WATV)
Call letters’ meaning | National Educational Television (forerunner of PBS) |
Sister station(s) | WLIW, WMBQ-CD, WNDT-CD NJTV |
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Transmitter Power | 4 kW 6.5 kW (Construction Permit (CP)) |
Height | 507 m (1,663 ft) |
Facility ID | 18795 |
Transmitter Coordinates | 40°42′46.8″N 74°0′47.3″W / 40.713000°N 74.013139°W |
Website | (station) (corporate) |
WNET, channel 13 (branded as "THIRTEEN"), is a non-commercial educational, public television station in Newark, New Jersey. WNET is owned by WNET.org. That used to be called the Educational Broadcasting Corporation) The station also has studios in Manhattan and its transmitter is at One World Trade Center.
Original productions
WNET has produced, created, or presented many PBS shows. These are some:
- Amanpour & Company (2018–present)
- American Masters (1983–present)
- Australia: Beyond the Fatal Shore (2000)
- Bill Moyers Reports: Earth On Edge (2001)
- Barney & Friends (1992–2010) (Original Series)** Black Journal
- Bob the Builder (2005–2018)** Charlie Rose (1991–2017)
- Colonial House (2004)
- Cyberchase (2002–present)
- Dickens (2003)
- DNA (2003)
- The Great American Dream Machine (1971–1972)
- Great Performances (1972–present)
- Live from Lincoln Center (1976–present)
- The Mind
- Nature (1982–present)
- NOW
- The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (2002)
- Shining Time Station
- Simon Schama's Power of Art
- The Story of English
- Tavis Smiley (2004–2017)
- Thomas and Friends (2004–2017)*==Images for kids==
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