WFYI (TV)
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| Indianapolis, Indiana | |
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| Slogan | For Your Information |
| Channels | Digital: 21 (UHF) Virtual: 20 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 20.1 WFYI 1 20.2 WFYI 2 20.3 WFYI 3 |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Broadcasting, Inc. |
| First air date | October 4, 1970 |
| Call letters' meaning | For Your Information -and- For You Indiana |
| Sister station(s) | WFYI-FM |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 20 (UHF, 1970-2009) |
| Former affiliations | NET (October 4, 1970-October 5, 1970) |
| Transmitter power | 200 kW |
| Height | 236 m (HAAT) 238 m (AGL) |
| Class | DT |
| Facility ID | 41397 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°53′56.9″N 86°12′02.4″W / 39.899139°N 86.200667°W |
| Website | www.wfyi.org |
WFYI channel 20 (digital channel 21) is the local Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member public television station for Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, and surrounding areas since it first signed on October 4, 1970. It is currently run by Lloyd Wright, president and CEO, who is also a member of the national board of directors of the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). Its most notable original series include Across Indiana, Indiana Expeditions with Rick Crosslin, INside Indiana Business, Indiana PrimeTime, Indiana Lawmakers, Reel Time and Indiana Week in Review. Locally-originated TV programming has garnered WFYI 30 regional Emmy awards over the past five years.
Now known as WFYI Public Media, the station is operated by Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Broadcasting, Inc., which also operates WFYI-FM (90.1), a National Public Radio member station. Its studios are located just north of downtown Indianapolis, along that city's Television Row in the former Indiana Gas building at 1630 N. Meridian Street. WFYI’s transmitter and tower are sited at 2300 West 79th Street on the northwest side of the city.
Digital television [edit]
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming |
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| 20.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WFYI 1 | Main WFYI Programming / PBS |
| 20.2 | 480i | 4:3 | WFYI 2 | V-me |
| 20.3 | WFYI 3 | Create (04a-04p) Indiana Channel (04p-01a) Classic Arts Showcase (01a-04a) |
The main digital channel (20.1, stylized as WFYI 1) carries most PBS programming as well as locally produced offerings. The V-me network is shown on subchannel 20.2 (stylized as WFYI 2) and airs Spanish language programming. At present, subchannel 20.3 (stylized as WFYI 3) airs a mix of Create programming in the daytime, various PBS programs in prime time, and Classic Arts Showcase overnight. It also now features the beginnings of the new Indiana Channel in the afternoons on certain weekdays.
WFYI shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009 at 11:59 PM. The last few minutes of the station's analog signal was the overview of its new digital channel renamed WFYI 1, with two other subchannels (WFYI 2 and WFYI 3). Then it looked back on WFYI's 38 and half years of analog television before again over viewing the station's three new digital channels, before officially concluding analog transmission.
As of June 12, it remained on pre-transition channel 21, whereas its virtual channel is 20.
Trivia [edit]
- WFYI (TV) was originally seen on translator W39AA in Fort Wayne in the early-1980s (previously occupied by Bowling Green's WBGU-TV); that channel became a separate, full-powered PBS affiliate WFWA in December 1986.
External links [edit]
- WFYI Online
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WFYI
- Listing 1027896 in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Antenna Structure Registration database
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WFYI-TV
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