WDSE-TV
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WDSE: Duluth, Minnesota/Superior, Wisconsin WRPT: Hibbing, Minnesota United States |
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| City |
WDSE: Duluth, Minnesota WRPT: Hibbing, Minnesota |
| Branding | PBS North |
| Channels |
Digital: WDSE: 8 (VHF) WRPT: 31 (UHF) Virtual: WDSE: 8 () WRPT: 31 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | xx.1 PBS/WPT HD xx.2 PBS Satellite xx.3 Create xx.4 Minnesota Channel |
| Affiliations | PBS (1970–present) |
| Owner | Duluth-Superior Area Educational Television Corporation |
| First air date |
WDSE: September 1, 1964 WRPT: December 27, 2008 |
| Call letters' meaning |
WDSE: Duluth-Superior Educational WRPT: Iron Range Public Television |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: WDSE: 8 (VHF, 1964–2009) Digital: WDSE: 38 (UHF, 2003–2009) |
| Former affiliations | NET (1964–1970) |
| Transmitter power |
WDSE: 34 kW WRPT: 250 kW |
| Height |
WDSE: 295 m (968 ft) WRPT: 167 m (548 ft) |
| Facility ID |
WDSE: 17726 WRPT: 159007 |
| Transmitter coordinates |
WDSE: 46°47′30″N 92°7′19.9″W / 46.79167°N 92.122194°W WRPT: 47°22′53.1″N 92°57′15.7″W / 47.381417°N 92.954361°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
/ WRPT Profile / WRPT CDBS |
| Website | www.wdse.org |
WDSE is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Duluth, Minnesota, United States, serving northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 (also the station's virtual channel via ) from a transmitter west of downtown Duluth in Hilltop Park. Owned by the Duluth-Superior Area Educational Television Corporation, the station has studios located on the campus of the University of Minnesota Duluth.
WDSE also operates satellite station WRPT, virtual and UHF digital channel 31 in Hibbing, Minnesota, to serve the Minnesota Iron Range communities.
WDSE first went on the air on September 1, 1964 as the second educational station in Minnesota.
In November 1982, WDSE was the first Minnesota television broadcaster to utilize a circularly polarized broadcast antenna, and in April 1985 it was the first in Minnesota to begin full-time stereo television broadcasting. Its digital signal first went on the air on April 28, 2003, and in May 2003, WDSE became the first broadcaster in Minnesota to launch a channel, 8.2 PBS-HD, fully devoted to high-definition programming. In June 2008, WDSE became the first station in the Duluth-Superior market to begin producing local programming in high definition. WDSE/WRPT was the first station in the Duluth-Superior market to begin broadcasting in 5.1 Dolby surround sound starting June 12, 2009. On June 16, 2009, WDSE-TV/DT officially changed the station's call sign to simply WDSE, dropping the "TV" or "DT" at the end of the call sign.
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