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WGVU-TV

WGVU-TV / WGVK
WGVU Logo.png
WGVU: Grand Rapids, Michigan
WGVK: Kalamazoo, Michigan
United States
Branding WGVU
Slogan West Michigan Public Broadcasting
Channels Digital:
WGVU: 11 (VHF)
WGVK: 5 (VHF)
Virtual:
WGVU: 35 ()
WGVK: 52 (PSIP)
Affiliations
Owner Grand Valley State University
First air date
  • WGVU: December 17, 1972; 44 years ago (1972-12-17)
  • WGVK: October 1, 1984; 32 years ago (1984-10-01)
Call letters' meaning WGVU:
Grand
Valley State
University
WGVK:
WGVU Kalamazoo
Former callsigns
  • WGVU:
  • WGVC (1972–1987)
  • WGVK: none
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • WGVU:
  • 35 (UHF, 1972–2009)
  • WGVK:
  • 52 (UHF, 1984–2009)
Transmitter power WGVU:
50 kW (digital)
WGVK:
10 kW (digital)
Height WGVU:
238 m (digital)
WGVK:
169 m (digital)
Facility ID WGVU: 24784
WGVK: 24783
Transmitter coordinates WGVU:
42°57′35″N 85°53′45″W / 42.95972°N 85.89583°W / 42.95972; -85.89583
WGVK:
42°18′23″N 85°39′25″W / 42.30639°N 85.65694°W / 42.30639; -85.65694 (WGVK)
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: / WGVK Profile
/ WGVK CDBS
Website www.wgvu.org/television

WGVU-TV, virtual channel 35 (VHF digital channel 11), is a PBS member television station located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. WGVU operates a full-time satellite station, WGVK (virtual channel 52, VHF digital channel 5) in Kalamazoo. The two stations are owned by Grand Valley State University. WGVU's studios are located in the Meijer Public Broadcast Center, located in the Eberhard Center on the GVSU Pew Campus; WGVU's transmitter is located near the GVSU Campus in Allendale Charter Township, WGVK's transmitter is located in Kalamazoo's Westwood neighborhood.

The station signed on the air on December 17, 1972 as WGVC-TV, owned by what was then Grand Valley State College. Channel 35 originally operated from the basement of Manitou Hall on GVSC's Allendale campus.

WGVC-TV's signal was somewhat marginal in the southern portion of the vast West Michigan market (Kalamazoo and Battle Creek). It must conform its signal to protect fellow PBS member WNIT in South Bend, on adjacent channel 34. In much of this area, WGVC-TV could only be seen on cable. This was very similar to what the area's main ABC affiliate, WZZM-TV (channel 13), faced due to the presence of WTVG in Toledo, Ohio. To make up for this shortfall in coverage, Grand Valley State signed on WGVK as a satellite station in 1984. In 1986, the station relocated to its current studio facility at the Meijer Public Broadcast Center. The station's callsign was changed to WGVU in 1987, when Grand Valley State was elevated to university status.


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