WPTO

WPTO
CityOxford, Ohio
Channels
BrandingThinkTV 14
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WPTD, WCET
History
First air date
1959 (65 years ago) (1959)[a]
Former call signs
WMUB-TV (1959–1977)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 14 (UHF, 1959–2009)
  • Digital: 28 (UHF, 2004–2019)
NET (1959–1970)
Call sign meaning
Public Television in Oxford
Technical information[4]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID25065
ERP500 kW
HAAT279 m (915 ft)
Transmitter coordinates39°7′27″N 84°31′18″W / 39.12417°N 84.52167°W / 39.12417; -84.52167 (WPTO)
Links
Public license information

WPTO (channel 14) is a public television station licensed to Oxford, Ohio, United States, and broadcasting to the Cincinnati area. It is owned by Public Media Connect alongside WCET (channel 48, CET) in Cincinnati and WPTD (channel 16, ThinkTV) in Dayton and is managed from the ThinkTV studios in Dayton. The transmitter is co-located with Cincinnati's WXIX-TV near the Western Hills Viaduct.[5] WPTO serves as a secondary PBS station for the Cincinnati and Dayton areas.

Channel 14 in Oxford began broadcasting in 1959 as WMUB-TV, the educational television service of Miami University. It primarily served the immediate Oxford area, though a rebroadcaster was added to provide service to Dayton schools in 1969. In 1972, when the Ohio Educational Television Network Commission spearheaded the conversion of Dayton's channel 16 to educational programming as WOET-TV, the two stations began simulcasting. Miami University contributed WMUB-TV to the consortium known as University Regional Broadcasting (later renamed Greater Dayton Public Television), which operated channels 14 and 16, in 1975; the two stations became WPTO and WPTD in 1978.

After simulcasting with WPTD for 20 years, Greater Dayton Public Television began providing separate programming on WPTO on July 1, 1992; the new program lineup consisted of instructional and international programming. The station was added the next year to cable systems in Dayton and Cincinnati. WPTO began digital broadcasting in 2004 from a site in Cincinnati. WPTO also provides transmission capacity for two channels of Kentucky Educational Television transmitter WCVN-TV as part of a reciprocal ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) hosting arrangement.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Dayt600430 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "WPTO-TV". Television & Cable Factbook. 2006. p. A-2735.
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  4. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WPTO". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  5. ^ Kiesewetter, John (August 14, 2020). "'Action Auction' Bidding Open; Telecast Begins Sept. 9". WVXU.


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