WSIU-TV

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WSIU-TV / WUSI-TV
WSIU: Carbondale, Illinois
WUSI: Olney, Illinois
Channels

Digital:
WSIU: 8 (VHF)
WUSI: 19 (UHF)

Affiliations PBS (1970-Present)
Owner Southern Illinois University
(Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University)
First air date WSIU: November 6, 1961
WUSI: August 19, 1968
Call letters’ meaning WSIU:
Southern
Illinois
University
WUSI: anagram of WSIU
Former channel number(s) Analog:
WSIU:
8 (1961-2009)
WUSI:
16 (1968-2009)
Former affiliations NET (1961-1970)
Transmitter Power WSIU: 53 kW
WUSI: 46 kW
Height WSIU: 271.3 m
WUSI: 283.8 m
Facility ID WSIU: 4297
WUSI: 4301
Transmitter Coordinates WSIU:
38°6′11″N 89°14′40″W / 38.10306°N 89.24444°W / 38.10306; -89.24444
WUSI:
38°50′19″N 88°7′47″W / 38.83861°N 88.12972°W / 38.83861; -88.12972 (WUSI-TV)
Website www.wsiu.org/

WSIU digital channel 8 is a PBS member station based and located in Carbondale, Illinois, at Southern Illinois University. Programming can also be seen on WUSI-TV digital channel 19 in Olney, Illinois, a translator. Both stations serve the extreme southern part of Illinois and portions of Indiana, Kentucky,Tennessee and Missouri and broadcast the full PBS schedule.

WSIU also operates FM radio stations, which are all members of NPR and PRI. WSIU's radio stations are WSIU Carbondale, 91.9 FM, WUSI Olney, 90.3 FM, and WVSI Mt. Vernon, 88.9 FM.

WSIU-TV has been digital-only since January 29, 2009.[1]

WUSI is digital-only, effective 9pm on February 17, 2009.[2]

[edit] Programming

While classes are in session, River Region Evening Edition, a live student-produced newscast, is shown Monday through Thursday at 5:00 p.m. CT, with repeats of WSIU InFocus shown on Friday at 5:00 p.m. CT.

The Emmy winning, student-produced alt.news 26:46 occasionally airs on Sundays at 10:00 p.m.

The student-produced, Studio A is also back on the WSIU airwaves occasionally on Sundays at 10:00 p.m.

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