Wnet Company Profile

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Company Name	Wnet
Website	thirteen.org
Snippet	WNET, channel 13 (branded as "THIRTEEN"), is a non-commercial educational, public television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey and serving the New York metropolitan area. WNET is a member station of, and a primary program provider to, PBS. WNET's main studios and offices are located in Midtown Manhattan with an auxiliary street-level studio in the Lincoln Center complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The station's transmitter is located at the Empire State Building, with a planned relocation to One World Trade Center pending in 2018.[2]
City	Newark, New Jersey
Owner	WNET.org(WNET)
Height	405 m (1,329 ft)
Slogan	Media with impact.
Founded	1947
Website	thirteen.org
Branding	THIRTEEN
Channels	Digital: 13 (VHF)(to move to 12 (VHF))Virtual: 13 (PSIP)
Facility ID	18795
Subchannels	.1 PBS, .2 PBS Kids, .3 Biz TV[1]
First air date	May 15, 1948 (70 years ago) (1948-05-15)
Former callsigns	WATV (1948–1958), WNTA-TV (1958–1962), WNDT (1962–1970)
Sister station(s)	WLIW, NJTV, WMBQ-CD, WNDT-CD
Transmitter power	9.3 kW
Former affiliations	Independent (1948–1962), NET (1962–1970)
Licensing authority	FCC
Call letters' meaning	National Educational Television(forerunner of PBS)
Transmitter coordinates	40°44′54.4″N 73°59′8.4″W / 40.748444°N 73.985667°W / 40.748444; -73.985667Coordinates: 40°44′54.4″N 73°59′8.4″W / 40.748444°N 73.985667°W / 40.748444; -73.985667
Former channel number(s)	Analog:, 13 (VHF, 1948–2009), Digital:, 61 (UHF, 1998–2009)
Public license information:	ProfileCDBS

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