New Hampshire Public Television

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New Hampshire Public Television
statewide New Hampshire
Branding	NHPTV
Slogan	Engaging minds. Connecting Communities. Celebrating New Hampshire.
Channels	Digital: see table below
Affiliations	PBS (1970-Present)
Owner	University System of New Hampshire
First air date	July 6, 1959
Call letters’ meaning	see table below
Former channel number(s)	See Below
Former affiliations	NET (1959-1970)
Transmitter Power	see table below
Height	see table below
Facility ID	see table below
Transmitter Coordinates	see table below
Website	www.nhptv.org

New Hampshire Public Television is a television company and public broadcasting mini-network in New Hampshire, licensed to the University System of New Hampshire and is part of the Public Broadcasting Service network. Established in 1959, its broadcast center is located on the University of New Hampshire campus in Durham, New Hampshire.

NHPTV is overseen by a 21-member board of directors, which is a governing board authorized by subcommittee the USNH Board of Trustees.

The station is available over the air in nearly 75 percent of New Hampshire, and is available on cable in parts of Massachusetts (including Boston), Maine (including Portland) and Vermont (including the Barre/Montpelier area). It is available on DirecTV and Dish Network's Boston, Portland and Burlington/Plattsburgh feeds, reaching a potential audience of nine million people.

[edit] Programming

Because the state is split between the Boston, Portland and Burlington/Plattsburgh markets, nearly all NHPTV viewers also receive another PBS station on cable or satellite (in some cases more than one). As a result, NHPTV has elected to differentiate its program schedule for the other PBS stations in the market. Generally, NHPTV's broadcast of PBS programs and series do not air on the same day and time as they do on Boston's WGBH-TV, MPBN, Vermont Public Television or WCFE-TV.

NHPTV produces a number of local series, including:

• NH Outlook
• Windows to the Wild
• Granite State Challenge
• Wildlife Journal (co-produced with the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department)
• New Hampshire Crossroads

NHPTV produced live coverage of University of New Hampshire men's Hockey from the 1972-1973 season through the 2007-2008 season. However, in June 2008 NHPTV announced that it was unable to continue to broadcast the games due to budgetary considerations.

The cooking show Ciao Italia with Mary Ann Esposito was formerly distributed by NHPTV and produced at the NHPTV studios in Durham.

[edit] Stations

As of the DTV transition on Feb. 17, 2009, the NHPTV stations are:

Notes:

• 1. WENH operated its analog signal on VHF channel 11 and its digital signal on UHF channel 57 prior to the DTV transition on February 17, 2009.
• 2. WEKW operated its analog signal on UHF channel 52 prior to the DTV transition on February 17, 2009.
• 3. WLED operated its analog signal on UHF channel 49 prior to the DTV transition on February 17, 2009.

[edit] Low-power stations

¹Formerly W15BK, which operated on analog channel 15 (it flash-cut to digital on September 4, 2007).

[edit] Former stations

In the summer of 1981, New Hampshire Public Television was suffering a significant financial crisis. These stations were turned off for good as a result.

WHED-TV was eventually replaced by a translator (W15BK which operated from 1994 to 2007, when it was replaced by low-power digital station by W50DP-D). Otherwise, the defunct stations were generally superseded by cable carriage of WENH/NHPTV.

[edit] References

• "New Hampshire Public Television". Volunteer Action Centre. http://www.volunteersolutions.org/uwgs/org/218095.html. Retrieved on August 4 2005. 
• "Southern New Hampshire TV Market". Archives at BostonRadio.org. http://web.archive.org/web/20030802002637/www.bostonradio.org/radio/nh-tv.html. Retrieved on September 22 2005.  (imaged from Internet Archive, as the site no longer carries dial pages)
• "Upper Valley TV Dial". Archives at BostonRadio.org. http://web.archive.org/web/20030802004535/www.bostonradio.org/radio/uv-tv.html. Retrieved on September 22 2005.  (another dial page for same website, so it's also down)
• "WHED-TV, Channel 15, Hanover, NH". RadioDXer.com/Peter Q George, Joe Gallant. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/3514/WHED.html. Retrieved on September 22 2005. 
• "WEDB-TV, Channel 40, Berlin, NH". RadioDXer.com/Peter Q George, Joe Gallant. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/3514/WEDB.html. Retrieved on September 22 2005.  (same as above, but with WEDB footnote and not one for WHED/W15BK)
• "NHPTV to Shut Down Full Power Analog...". NHPTV Press Release. http://www.nhptv.org/pressroom/release_detail.asp?hp_id=783. Retrieved on February 20 2009.  (DTV transition press release)

[edit] External links

• NHPTV web site
• UHF Morgue: WEDB, WHED
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WENH-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WEKW-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WLED-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for W18BO
• Query the FCC's TV station database for W50DP-D
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WENH-TV
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WEKW-TV
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WLED-TV