WNEO

WNEO

Alliance–Youngstown, Ohio United States
City	Alliance, Ohio
Channels	Digital: 29 (UHF) Virtual: 45
Branding	PBS Western Reserve
Programming
Affiliations	45.1: PBS 45.2: Fusion 45.3: FNX
Ownership
Owner	Western Reserve Public Media (Northeastern Educational Television of Ohio, Inc.)
History
First air date	May 30, 1973 (51 years ago) (1973-05-30)
Former call signs	WNEO-TV (1973–1990)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 45 (UHF, 1973–2008) Digital: 46 (UHF, 2003–2008), 45 (UHF, 2008–2020)
Call sign meaning	Northeastern Ohio
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	49439
ERP	465 kW
HAAT	251.1 m (824 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	40°54′23.2″N 80°54′39.3″W / 40.906444°N 80.910917°W / 40.906444; -80.910917 (WNEO)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	westernreservepublicmedia.org
Satellite station
WEAO
Akron–Canton, Ohio
City	Akron, Ohio
Channels	Digital: 24 (UHF), shared with WRLM Virtual: 49
History
First air date	September 21, 1975 (49 years ago) (1975-09-21)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 49 (UHF, 1975–2009) Digital: 50 (UHF, 2004–2019)
Call sign meaning	Eastern Ohio
Technical information[2]
Facility ID	49421
ERP	191 kW
HAAT	294.6 m (967 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	41°4′58.5″N 81°38′1.6″W / 41.082917°N 81.633778°W / 41.082917; -81.633778 (WEAO)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS

WNEO (channel 45) is a non-commercial educational television station licensed to Alliance, Ohio, United States. It is simulcast full-time over satellite station WEAO (channel 49) in Akron, Ohio. Both are member stations of PBS and jointly brand as PBS Western Reserve. WNEO is the Youngstown market's PBS station of record, while WEAO provides the Cleveland market with a second choice for PBS programming alongside the market's primary PBS station, WVIZ (channel 25).

WNEO and WEAO are owned by Northeastern Educational Television of Ohio, which is a consortium of the University of Akron, Kent State University and Youngstown State University. The two stations operate from studios on Kent State's campus in Kent,^[3] northeast of Akron and roughly west of Youngstown. WNEO's transmitter is located in Salem, while WEAO's transmitter is based in Copley Township.

WNEO also operates W13DP-D, a low-power digital translator in Youngstown, which serves low-lying areas in the Mahoning Valley that are not covered from the main WNEO signal. The translator signed on as analog W58AM in May 1980, converted to digital as W44CR-D in November 2009, and moved to its current channel in November 2019.^[4]