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WOUB-TV (channel 20) is a non-commercial educational television station licensed to Athens, Ohio. The station's programming can also be seen on satellite station WOUC-TV (channel 44) in Cambridge, Ohio. Both stations are members of PBS.

The WOUB/WOUC studios and offices are located in the Radio-TV building on the Athens campus of Ohio University, which owns the stations' licenses through the WOUB Center for Public Media. The Center is a non-academic unit of the Scripps College of Communication. The two stations, combined, serve southeastern Ohio and portions of neighboring West Virginia and Kentucky. The public media center also serves as a laboratory for Ohio University students who are interested in gaining experience in broadcasting and related technologies. In addition to radio (WOUB AM and FM) and television, WOUB is also active in online services and media production.

Unlike most PBS stations, the channel produces a regular local newscast by university students studying and training on television newscasts at Ohio University. With that, they mainly focus on the area around Athens, which is mostly ignored by the Columbus, Zanesville and Huntington-Charleston stations that serve the Athens area.

Coverage area

Currently Athens County, Ohio is located in the fringes of the Columbus market. However, the combined power of the two stations reaches most of the Huntington/Charleston and Zanesville markets, as well as portions of the Columbus, Parkersburg and Wheeling/Steubenville markets. The station leases commercial fiber line to permit it to be carried on the Columbus local feeds of the DBS providers.

Digital television

As of April 11, 2018, when they expanded to six broadcast streams per transmitter,[1] WOUB-TV and WOUC-TV share the same programming.[2]

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming
xx.1 1080i 16:9 WOUB-HD Main WOUB-TV programming (PBS)
xx.2 480i 4:3 WOUB Classic Classic Programming
xx.3 WOUB World World
xx.4 WOUB Create Create
xx.5 WOUB Ohio The Ohio Channel
xx.6 WOUB Kids WOUB PBS KIDS Channel

Digital transition

In 2009, when the analog to digital conversion was completed, WOUB-TV and WOUC-TV used channels 27 and 35, respectively for digital television operations. Following the transition the stations remained on those channels, but, it uses PSIP to display 20 and 44 as the stations' respective virtual channels. [3] In 2019, both stations moved to new physical channels as part of the FCC's spectrum re-pack process.

Programming

Images

  • Transmitter facility for WOUB-FM/TV, Athens, Ohio. Photo taken in 1993.
    Transmitter facility for WOUB-FM/TV, Athens, Ohio. Photo taken in 1993.
  • Transmitter tower for WOUB-FM/TV, Athens, Ohio. Photo taken in 1993.
    Transmitter tower for WOUB-FM/TV, Athens, Ohio. Photo taken in 1993.

References

  1. ^ "WOUB-TV to Double Content Offerings Starting April 11 - WOUB Digital". 6 April 2018.
  2. ^ "WOUB-TV Schedules - WOUB Digital".
  3. ^ "Data" (PDF). hraunfoss.fcc.gov.
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