Maine Public Broadcasting Network
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| statewide Maine United States |
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| Branding | MPBN |
| Slogan | More to Explore |
| Channels |
Digital: WCBB 10 (VHF) WMEB-TV 12 (VHF) WMEM-TV 10 (VHF) WMED-TV 10 (VHF) WMEA-TV 45 (UHF) |
| Subchannels | x.1 PBS x.2 Create x.3 World x.4 PBS Kids |
| Affiliations | PBS, NPR, BBC, CBC, PRI, APT |
| Owner | Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation |
| First air date | November 13, 1961 (WCBB) September 23, 1963 (original MPBN) July 1, 1992 (current incarnation) |
| Former affiliations | NET (1961–1970) |
| Transmitter coordinates | see table below |
| Website | www.mainepublic.org |
The Maine Public Broadcasting Network (abbreviated MPBN) is a state network of public television and radio stations located in the state of Maine in the United States. It is operated by the Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation, which holds the licenses for all the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) stations licensed in the state. MPBN has studios and offices in Portland, Lewiston and Bangor.
MPBN's television network shows a block of standard PBS programming, as well as many documentaries including nature programs and other science programs. MPBN's radio network airs news and talk programming from NPR, locally produced news programming, jazz and classical music.
MPBN's television and radio signals reach virtually all of the populated portions of Maine, and adjoining parts of New Hampshire and Massachusetts and the Canadian province of New Brunswick. MPBN Television is also carried on cable television in most of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland, particularly via Bell Aliant Fibe TV.
What is now MPBN dates from the 1992 merger of WCBB, the PBS member station for most of southern Maine, with the original MPBN radio and television stations operated by the University of Maine System.
On November 13, 1961, WCBB signed on from Lewiston as the first educational television station in Maine and the third in New England, after WGBH-TV in Boston and WENH-TV in Durham, New Hampshire. Licensed to Augusta, it was a joint venture of Colby College, Bates College, and Bowdoin College. Two years later, WMEB-TV began broadcasting from the University of Maine campus in Orono, near Bangor. Over the next decade, UMaine signed on three other stations across the state, as well as several translators. These stations formed the original MPBN network. One of them was WMEG-TV in Biddeford, near Portland (now WMEA-TV); however, it was (and still is) practically unviewable over the air in Portland itself and points north.
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