WMHT (TV)

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WMHT
WMHT TV logo.png
City Schenectady, New York
Channels
BrandingWMHT
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
OwnerWMHT Educational Telecommunications
WMHT-FM, WEXT
History
First air date
March 26, 1962(61 years ago) (1962-03-26)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 17 (UHF, 1962–2009)
  • Digital: 34 (UHF, 2004–2019)
  • Translators:
  • 4 W04AJ Schoharie
  • 4 W04BD Glens Falls
NET (1962–1970)
Call sign meaning
 Mohawk–Hudson Television
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 73263
ERP 445 kW
HAAT 426 m (1,398 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 42°37′31.3″N74°0′36.7″W / 42.625361°N 74.010194°W / 42.625361; -74.010194 (WMHT)
Translator(s) W23ER-D Poughkeepsie
Links
Public license information
Website www.wmht.org

WMHT (channel 17) is a television station licensed to Schenectady, New York, United States, serving the Capital District as a member of PBS. It is owned by WMHT Educational Telecommunications alongside NPR member WMHT-FM (89.1). The two stations share studios in the Rensselaer Technology Park in North Greenbush (with a Troy mailing address); the TV station's transmitter is located in the Helderberg Escarpment in New Scotland.

Contents

WMHT operates digital translator W23ER-D (channel 23) in Poughkeepsie (part of the New York City market). The translator's ownership was transferred from Dutchess Community College to WMHT in 2014. [2]

History

The Mohawk-Hudson Council on Educational Television was formed in 1953, through financial support from commercial station WRGB (channel 6), its then-parent company General Electric (which was based in Schenectady) and many supporters and local businesses in the Albany/Capital Region. In the beginning, Mohawk-Hudson produced educational programs on WRGB; however, due to the station's tight scheduling, the council decided to form a non-commercial educational television station of its own. WMHT signed on the air on March 26, 1962, on UHF channel 17 as the second educational TV station in the state of New York. From the outset the station was a member of National Educational Television (NET) and became one of PBS' charter members after the two stations merged in 1970. In 1972, WMHT expanded into FM radio by launching the first non-commercial classical music station in the United States (a format that continues to this day).

In 1987, WMHT purchased the assets of independent station WUSV (channel 45) and made it a secondary programming service under the calls WMHX. Due to financial difficulties, WMHT shut WMHX down in 1991 and returned it to the air three years later under the calls WMHQ. In the late 1990s, WMHQ's commercial license became attractive and WMHT sold it to the Tribune Company for $18.5 million in 1999 with the station becoming WB affiliate WEWB that September (it is now CW affiliate WCWN, owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group). The money from this sale allowed WMHT to expand into digital television. It also allowed the station to replace its original facility in Rotterdam with a state-of-the-art facility in the Rensselaer Tech Park in town of North Greenbush, New York.

Programming

Programming produced by WMHT includes the state public affairs show New York NOW. The program is also aired on all public Television and radio stations across the state of New York in addition to being aired online and in a podcast format. [3]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WMHT [4]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
17.1 1080i 16:9 WMHT-HDMain WMHT programming / PBS
17.2 480i WMHT-Cr Create
17.3WMHT-Wo World Channel
17.4WMHT-Ki PBS Kids

Analog-to-digital conversion

WMHT shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 17 at noon on April 16, 2009. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 34, [5] using virtual channel 17. During the 2019 digital television repack, WMHT relocated from UHF channel 34 to channel 25.

Translator

Former translators

  • W04AJ Schoharie (analog; off-air upon 2009 digital transition, and no longer licensed to WMHT)
  • W04BD Glens Falls (analog; off-air upon 2009 digital transition, and no longer licensed to WMHT)

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WMHT". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "PDF: FCC Consent to Assignment" (PDF). FCC Authorization Files, FCC CDBS. November 18, 2014. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  3. ↑ "New York NOW | About". New York NOW (WMHT). Retrieved July 7, 2021.
  4. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for WMHT
  5. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
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