WHYY-TV

WHYY-TV

Wilmington, Delaware Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States
City	Wilmington, Delaware
Channels	Digital: 13 (VHF), shared with WMCN-TV Virtual: 12
Branding	PBS WHYY
Programming
Affiliations	12.1: PBS for others, see § Technical information
Ownership
Owner	WHYY, Inc.
Sister stations	WHYY-FM
History
First air date	September 16, 1957 (67 years ago) (1957-09-16)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 35 (UHF, 1957–1963),[a] 12 (VHF, 1963–2009) Digital: 55 (UHF, 1999–2009), 12 (VHF, 2009–2020)
Former affiliations	NET (1957–1970)
Call sign meaning	"Wider Horizons for You and Yours"[1]
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	72338
ERP	30 kW
HAAT	294 m (965 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	40°2′30.9″N 75°14′21.9″W / 40.041917°N 75.239417°W / 40.041917; -75.239417
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.whyy.org
Satellite station
WDPB
Seaford–Dover, Delaware
City	Seaford, Delaware
Channels	Digital: 24 (UHF) Virtual: 64
Programming
Subchannels	64.1: PBS 64.2: Y2 64.3: PBS Kids
History
First air date	December 4, 1981 (42 years ago) (1981-12-04)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 64 (UHF, 1981–2009) Digital: 44 (UHF, 2005–2019)
Call sign meaning	Delaware Public Broadcasting
Technical information[3]
Facility ID	72335
ERP	65.2 kW
HAAT	195 m (640 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	38°39′16″N 75°36′39″W / 38.65444°N 75.61083°W / 38.65444; -75.61083 (WDPB)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS

WHYY-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Wilmington, Delaware, United States, serving as the primary PBS member station for the Philadelphia area. It is owned by WHYY, Inc., alongside NPR member station WHYY-FM 90.9. WHYY-TV and WHYY-FM share studios and offices on Independence Mall in Center City, Philadelphia, with an additional office in Wilmington; through a channel sharing agreement with WMCN-TV (channel 44), the two stations transmit using WHYY-TV's spectrum from an antenna in Philadelphia's Roxborough section.

WHYY-TV is one of four PBS member stations serving the Philadelphia market, alongside Philadelphia-licensed WPPT (channel 35), Allentown-based WLVT-TV (channel 39), and NJ PBS (WNJS, channel 23, and WNJT, channel 52). In southern Delaware and on the Delmarva Peninsula, WHYY-TV is seen on WDPB (channel 64), a full-time rebroadcaster in Seaford, Delaware.

WHYY-TV was established in 1957 on channel 35 in Philadelphia as the first educational TV station in the city. Seeking to expand its coverage area, it successfully filed to use channel 12 in Wilmington, which was left vacant after the closing of a commercial station, and moved its primary programming there in 1963. It also opened a Wilmington studio and began producing Delaware-oriented public affairs programming.

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