WOUB-TV

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WOUB-TV
WOUB-TV PBS logo.png
Athens/Marietta, Ohio
Parkersburg, West Virginia
United States
City Athens, Ohio
Channels Digital: 32 (UHF)
Virtual: 20
BrandingPBS WOUB
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner Ohio University
(WOUB Public Media)
History
First air date
January 7, 1963
(59 years ago)
 (1963-01-07)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 20 (UHF, 1963–2009)
  • Digital:
  • 27 (UHF, mid 2000s–2019)
NET (1963–1970)
Call sign meaning
"Ohio University Broadcasting"
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID 50147
ERP 250 kW
HAAT 245.5 m (805 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 39°18′52″N82°8′59″W / 39.31444°N 82.14972°W / 39.31444; -82.14972
Links
Public license information
Profile
LMS
Website woub.org
Satellite station
WOUC-TV
Cambridge/Zanesville, Ohio
United States
City Cambridge, Ohio
Channels Digital: 6 (VHF)
Virtual: 44
History
First air date
July 26, 1973
(48 years ago)
 (1973-07-26)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 44 (UHF, 1973–2009)
  • Digital:
  • 35 (UHF, mid 2000s–2019)
Call sign meaning
"Ohio University, Cambridge"
Technical information
Facility ID 50141
ERP 7.11 kW
HAAT 337.8 m (1,108 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 40°5′32″N81°17′18″W / 40.09222°N 81.28833°W / 40.09222; -81.28833
Links
Public license information
Profile
LMS

WOUB-TV (channel 20) is a PBS member television station in Athens, Ohio, United States. The station's transmitter is located west of the city off SR 56. Its programming can also be seen on satellite station WOUC-TV (channel 44) in Cambridge, with transmitter near Fairview, Ohio.

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The WOUB/WOUC studios and offices are located in the Radio-TV building on the Athens campus of Ohio University, which owns the stations' licenses through the WOUB Center for Public Media. The Center is a non-academic unit of the Scripps College of Communication. The two stations, combined, serve southeastern Ohio and portions of neighboring West Virginia and Kentucky. The public media center also serves as a laboratory for Ohio University students who are interested in gaining experience in broadcasting and related technologies. In addition to radio (WOUB AM and FM) and television, WOUB is also active in online services and media production.

Unlike most PBS stations, the channel produces a regular local newscast by university students studying and training on television newscasts at Ohio University. With that, they mainly focus on the area around Athens, which is mostly ignored by the Columbus, Zanesville and HuntingtonCharleston stations that serve the Athens area.

Coverage area

Athens and surrounding Athens County are located in the fringes of the Columbus market. However, the combined power of the two stations reaches most of the Huntington–Charleston and Zanesville markets, as well as portions of the Columbus, Parkersburg and WheelingSteubenville markets. The station leases commercial fiber line to permit it to be carried on the Columbus local feeds of the DBS providers.

Technical information

As of April 11, 2018, when they expanded to six broadcast streams per transmitter, [1] WOUB-TV and WOUC-TV share the same programming. [2]

Subchannels

The stations' digital signals are multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect Short nameProgramming [3]
20.1 / 44.1 1080i 16:9 WOUB-HDMain WOUB-TV programming / PBS
20.2 / 44.2 480i 4:3 ClassicPBS Encore
20.3 / 44.3World World
20.4 / 44.4Create Create
20.5 / 44.5Ohio The Ohio Channel
20.6 / 44.6Kids PBS Kids
20.7 / 44.7VoiceCoAudio

Analog-to-digital conversion

In 2009, when the analog to digital conversion was completed, WOUB-TV and WOUC-TV used channels 27 and 35, respectively for digital television operations. Following the transition the stations remained on those channels, but, it uses PSIP to display 20 and 44 as the stations' respective virtual channels. [4] In 2019, both stations moved to new physical channels as part of the FCC's spectrum re-pack process.

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References

  1. "WOUB-TV to Double Content Offerings Starting April 11 - WOUB Digital". 6 April 2018.
  2. "WOUB-TV Schedules - WOUB Digital".
  3. "WOUB-TV ATHENS, OH". www.rabbitears.info.
  4. "Data" (PDF). hraunfoss.fcc.gov.