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WCAE
WCAE was a PBS List of PBS member stations, 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 in the United States, 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. History Early years The St. John School Township filed for a construction permit for a new noncommercial educational TV station licensed to St. John on April 23, 1965. Originally seeking channel 66, allocated to nearby Gary, Indiana, Gary, the application was amended that summer to reflect an overhauled table of UHF allocations which set aside channel 50 in place of 66. The Federal Communications Commission approve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WYIN
WYIN (channel 56), branded on-air as Lakeshore PBS, is a secondary PBS member television station licensed to Gary, Indiana, United States, serving the Chicago area. It is owned by Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting, Inc., as a sister station to NPR member WLPR-FM (89.1). Both stations share studios on Indiana Place (Mississippi Street) in Merrillville, Indiana, Merrillville, while WYIN's transmitter is located near Lake Dalecarlia, Indiana, Lake Dalecarlia (due south of Cedar Lake, Indiana, Cedar Lake). WYIN is one of two PBS member stations in the Chicago media market, television market, alongside Chicago-licensed WTTW (channel 11). History Prior license history The first television station in northwest Indiana was WCAE, a noncommercial station owned by the Lake Central School Corporation in St. John, Indiana, St. John, which broadcast on UHF channel 50 from September 26, 1967, to March 31, 1983. The station was closed when financial troubles prompted the school board to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |