WNET facts for kids
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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 |
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, also known as "THIRTEEN", is a public television station. It is located in Newark, New Jersey. This station is owned by WNET.org, which used to be called the Educational Broadcasting Corporation. WNET also has studios in Manhattan and its main broadcast tower is at One World Trade Center.
TV Shows Made by WNET
WNET has created or shown many popular programs for PBS. Here are some of the shows they have produced:
- 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)
- 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)
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