WCAE

For the Pittsburgh radio station known as WCAE from 1922 to 1961, see WPGP.

WCAE
An ID slide showing a white helicopter landed in a snowy field. A black "50", with the counter of the zero being an upward-pointing arrow, is slightly off center. Below it is the text "WCAE-TV, St. John".
Channels
Programming
Affiliations
  • NET (1969–1970)
  • PBS (1970–1983)
Ownership
OwnerLake Central School Corporation
History
First air date
September 26, 1967 (1967-09-26)[1]
Last air date
March 31, 1983 (1983-03-31) (−15 years, 6 months and 5 days}[a]
Technical information
ERP2,372 kW[2]
HAAT417 ft (127 m)
Transmitter coordinates41°39′28″N 87°30′28″W / 41.65778°N 87.50778°W / 41.65778; -87.50778

WCAE was a PBS member station on channel 50 at St. John, Indiana, owned by the Lake Central School Corporation. It was the first television station to serve Northwest Indiana and the Calumet Region. The station began experiencing financial and personnel turmoil in the late 1970s; when the early 1980s recession hit the region hard, public support fell, and the school board closed the station in 1983. The license was reactivated in 1987, after more than four years of silence, as WYIN on channel 56.

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