Connecticut Public Television (CPTV) is the Public Broadcasting Service (
PBS
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)
member
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network for the
U.S. state
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of
Connecticut
Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...
. It is owned by
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Inc. (CPBI), doing business as Connecticut Public or Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network (CPBN) is the parent organization of Connecticut Public Television (CPTV) and Connecticut Public Radio (WNPR). It is a 5 ...
, a community-based
non-profit organization
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that holds the
licenses
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for all PBS member stations licensed in the state, and also owns the state's National Public Radio (
NPR
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) member,
Connecticut Public Radio
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(WNPR). Together, the television and radio stations make up the Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network (CPBN). CPBN is the state's only locally owned media organization producing TV, radio, print and Internet content for distribution across the state. As of 2019, Mark Contreras was announced as the new President / CEO. The organizational structure of CPTV also includes a
Board of Trustees
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. The network co-produced the long-running
children's television series
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, ''
Barney & Friends
''Barney & Friends'' is an American children's television series targeted at young children aged 2–7, created by Sheryl Leach. The series premiered on PBS on April 6, 1992. The series features the title character Barney, a purple anthropomorp ...
'' until the show (alongside other HiT programs) were transferred to
WNET
WNET (channel 13), branded on-air as "Thirteen" (stylized as "THIRTEEN"), is a primary PBS member television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, United States, serving the New York City area. Owned by The WNET Group (formerly known as the ...
.
History
The network's first station, WEDH in
Hartford
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, signed on with a
black and white
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signal in 1962, operating from a
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library basement. It was the fourth educational television station in
New England
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, following
WGBH-TV
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in
Boston
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, WENH-TV in
Durham, New Hampshire
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(now part of
New Hampshire Public Television
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), and WCBB in
Augusta, Maine
Augusta is the capital of the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Kennebec County.
The city's population was 18,899 at the 2020 census, making it the tenth-most populous city in Maine, and third-least populous state capital in the Un ...
(now part of the
Maine Public Broadcasting Network
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). Originally a member of
National Educational Television
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(NET), it joined PBS upon its launch on October 4, 1970. Originally known as Connecticut Educational Television, it became Connecticut Public Television in 1967.
CPTV remained based in rented space at Trinity College until selling its headquarters back to the school for $10 million in 2002. In 2004, CPTV moved to a facility in the Asylum Hill neighborhood of Hartford. The infrastructure of CPTV was eventually upgraded through a partnership with
Sony
, commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...
Systems Integration Center (SIC), which enabled the delivery of HD quality telecommunications to subscribers.
In late 2019, CPTV requested to have WEDW's
city of license
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changed from
Bridgeport
Bridgeport is the most populous city and a major port in the U.S. state of Connecticut. With a population of 148,654 in 2020, it is also the fifth-most populous in New England. Located in eastern Fairfield County at the mouth of the Pequonnoc ...
Since 1985, CPTV has received the following awards:
CPTV
* 69
Regional Emmy Awards
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* 6 Golden Eagle Awards
WNPR
* 7 Mark Twain Awards from the Associated Press
* 2
George Foster Peabody Award
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s
* 2
Gracie Allen Award
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s
* 2 Ohio State Awards for Broadcast Excellence
Shows produced by CPTV
CPTV was the broadcast and web streaming home of
UConn
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women's basketball
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from 1994 to 2012. The game broadcasts were the highest-rated locally produced programs in the PBS network.
CPTV is a major producer of children's programming for the PBS network. Its best-known offering was ''
Barney & Friends
''Barney & Friends'' is an American children's television series targeted at young children aged 2–7, created by Sheryl Leach. The series premiered on PBS on April 6, 1992. The series features the title character Barney, a purple anthropomorp ...
''. The character was discovered in 1991 when CPTV executive Larry Rifkin bought a ''
Barney and the Backyard Gang
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'' home video for his daughter and was mesmerized by it. CPTV continued to distribute the show until 2007; it is now distributed by
WNET
WNET (channel 13), branded on-air as "Thirteen" (stylized as "THIRTEEN"), is a primary PBS member television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, United States, serving the New York City area. Owned by The WNET Group (formerly known as the ...
in
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
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* '' ...
. Other children's shows originated and/or distributed by CPTV are ''
Thomas & Friends
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'', ''
Bob The Builder
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Angelina Ballerina
''Angelina Ballerina'' is a children's book series by author Katharine Holabird and illustrator Helen Craig about a fictional mouse (full name Angelina Jeanette Mouseling) who is training to become a ballerina. The first book in the series was p ...
'', and ''
The Saddle Club
''The Saddle Club'' is an Australian-Canadian children's television series developed by Sarah Dodd, based on the books written by Bonnie Bryant. Like the book series, the scripted live action series follows the lives of three best friends in ...
'' as well as the first season of ''
SeeMore's Playhouse
SeeMore's Playhouse is an American children's television series using puppets to teach preschoolers about health and safety concepts.
Characters
* SeeMore the Safety Seal
* Harry Hippo - Puppeteered by Eric Wright
* Shades Wolf - Puppeteered by ...
'' (the second season was distributed by
Oregon Public Broadcasting
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).
From 1993 to 2005, ''
M*A*S*H
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The ...
'' star
Alan Alda
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hosted the science series ''
Scientific American Frontiers
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'', based on the popular magazine ''
Scientific American
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''. That show was also produced by CPTV and aired nationwide.
Since 2002, CPTV has been working with
HIT Entertainment
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, which has helped distribute some of CPTV's children's programs. Beginning in 2008, most of CPTV's children's programming (which since 2002 have been produced with HIT Entertainment) has been presented by
WNET
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.
Other programs produced by or for CPTV include:
*''Able Lives''
*''All Things Connecticut''
*''Behind the Wheel: Parents and Teens''
*''A Child, A Family, A Future: Foster Care and Adoption in Connecticut''
*''Closing the Gap''
*''
The Cobblestone Corridor
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''
*''Common Ground'' (formerly known as ''Conversations on the Green'')
*''Connecticut on Alert''
*''Critical Call for Oral Health''
*''Critical Condition: Focus on Connecticut''
*''Cutline''
*''Eating CT''
*''Facing the Mortgage Crisis''
*''Fake''
*''Impact''
*''
Infinity Hall
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Infinity Hall, Norfolk H ...
Live''
*''Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop''
*''Mundo Real''
*''My First Breath''
*''Off the Menu''
*''Open Doors to Family Learning''
*''Opening Doors Opening Minds''
*''OTR: On The Record''
*''Positively Connecticut''
*''Power of Giving''
*'' Scully: The World Show''
*''Sharing CT''
*'' Sprawl: Driven by Denial''
*''Today's Children''
*''The
Warming
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of Connecticut''
*''Where Art Thou''
*''WNPR Health Forum''
*''Work Learn Live''
*''Young American Heroes''
Stations
CPTV's four stations cover almost all of Connecticut, as well as portions of
Massachusetts
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,
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
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* '' ...
and
Rhode Island
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.
The network previously operated a translator in
Waterbury
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, W12BH (channel 12), which directly repeated WEDY. That station was taken off the air to allow WTXX (now WCCT-TV) to begin digital television operations. Prior to that it was on Channel 61 as W61AC from 1967 until 1979 due to launch of WXTV translator.
CPTV is available on all
cable
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systems in the state. On
satellite
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, WEDH is available in nearly all of the state on the Hartford–New Haven
DirecTV
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and
Dish Network
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feeds, while WEDW is carried on the New York City DirecTV and Dish Network feeds; Stamford is part of the New York market. WEDW is also available both over-the-air and on several cable systems in portions of Greater New York, including the non-bordering states of
New Jersey
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and
Pennsylvania
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. Additionally, WEDH is carried by most cable systems in the
Pioneer Valley
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of Massachusetts, providing a second choice for PBS programming alongside
WGBY-TV
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in
Springfield
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* Springfield, New South Wales (Central Coast)
* Springfield, New South Wales (Snowy Monaro Regional Council)
* Springfield, Queenslan ...
. Finally, WEDN has wide over-the-air and cable availability in Rhode Island, including
Providence
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* Providence, Rhode Island, the capital of Rhode Island in the ...
(sharing the market with
WSBE-TV
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and Boston's WGBH-TV/
WGBX-TV
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). This gives CPTV a potential audience of 21 million people in six states, including much of Southern New England.
Technical information
Subchannels
The digital signals of CPTV's stations are
multiplexed
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:
WEDW is currently broadcasting 480i video on RF channel 21 with CPTV programming (49.1 virtual, 25% of packets). It shares its 6 MHz bandwidth with WZME (43.1 virtual, 720p video, 32% of packets) and MeTV+ programming (43.2 virtual, 480i video, 22% of packets). 21% of transport stream packets are null packets. Subchannels 49.2 and 49.3 are not currently broadcast by WEDW.
Analog-to-digital conversion
in 2009, leading up to the analog-to-digital television transition on June 12, CPTV shut down the analog transmitters of its stations on a staggered basis. Listed below are the dates each analog transmitter ceased operations as well as their post-transition channel allocations:
* WEDH shut down its analog signal, over
UHF
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channel 24, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 45, using
PSIP
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to display the station's
virtual channel
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as its former UHF analog channel 24.
* WEDW shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 49, on February 17, 2009, the original date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 52, which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era UHF channel 49.
* WEDN shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 53, on June 12, 2009. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition
VHF
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Frequencies immediately below VHF ...
channel 9, using PSIP to display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 53.
* WEDY went off the air on July 31, 2005, as the result of equipment failure. Connecticut Public Broadcasting was granted permission by the
Federal Communications Commission
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to temporarily keep the station off the air until repairs were completed. CPBI also petitioned the FCC to allow WEDY's analog signal to remain off the air permanently, citing the need to use available funds on the construction of its digital facilities. The station's digital signal resumed on its pre-transition VHF channel 6 on June 13, 2009,http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=619393 using PSIP to display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 65. However, most New Haven viewers kept access to PBS programming due to the high penetration of cable and satellite in the area.
On March 16, 2011, the FCC granted WEDY's petition to move from VHF channel 6 to UHF channel 41 because of viewer reception issues and interference from both
WPVI-TV
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in Philadelphia and
WRGB
WRGB (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Schenectady, New York, United States, serving the Capital District as an affiliate of CBS. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside CW affiliate WCWN (channel 45, also licensed to Sch ...
in
Schenectady, New York
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(both also operate on channel 6), after those two stations implemented recent power increases.
CPBN Learning Lab
The CPBN Learning Lab's goal is to train journalists and journalism instructors. Presently, the Hartford Public Schoolsbr>Journalism & Media Academy (JMA) receives full-time access to the facility in order to enhance media skills.
Since 2007, CPBN Media Lab instructors and mentors have provided real-world technical and journalism training for over 600 Connecticut students through seminars, workshops, and courses. The Media Lab has brought journalism and technical media skills training to middle school students through its ''Future Producers Academy'', ''"Media is Magic" SAND Media Enrichment Program'' and ''West Middle Media Project'' and for high school students through its ''Media 101'' and ''Young Entrepreneur'' courses in its ''Impact Academy''.
Internships are provided to undergraduate college students, often for college credit, and for recent graduates seeking to acquire technical and editorial skills.
Graduates of the CPTV college program have gone on to work in diverse media companies.
The CPBN Media Lab has been a partner with th PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs from their inception in 2010, serving as the professional mentor for five Connecticut high schools Hill Regional Career High School and the Metropolitan Business Academy in New Haven Crosby High School in Waterbury Terryville High School in Terryville an Bethel High School in Bethel. It is also the professional mentors to the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Lab it established a America's Choice at SAND school in Hartford, one of three in the nation to work with middle school students.
Projects produced by the Media lab include:
* Foul Play ', a look into the use of metal bats in
Little League baseball
Little League Baseball and Softball (officially, Little League Baseball Inc) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizationYouth Vote ', which documents the experiences of youth voters in the 2008–2012 elections
* (I)NTERVIEW ', a behind the scenes look into the lives of notable Connecticut celebrities
* Outdoor Enthusiast ', a look into Connecticut's state parks and scenic areas, launched alongside the original release of
Ken Burns
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* The CPBN Media finished strongly in the 2010 Pepsi Refresh competition with a proposal to help Connecticut schools produce 21st-century journalists.
* The CPBN Media Lab won th CT Secretary of State's youth vote video competition in 2012
* The CPBN Media Lab won tw Student Emmy Awards from the Boston New England Chapter of the National Association of Television Arts & Sciences in 2013.
* The CPBN Media Lab received recognition as a finalist in th Student Emmy Awards from the Boston New England Chapter of the National Association of Television Arts & Sciences in 2013.
See also
*
Public, educational, and government access
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