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WHYY-TV

WHYY-TV / WDPB
WHYY Logo.svg
WHYY: Wilmington, Delaware/
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
WDPB: Seaford, Delaware/Dover, Delaware
United States
Branding WHYY TV12
Slogan Where you go to know
Channels Digital:
WHYY: 12 (VHF)
WDPB: 44 (UHF)
Virtual:
WHYY: 12 ()
WDPB: 64 (PSIP)
Subchannels
Affiliations
Owner WHYY, Inc.
First air date WHYY: September 2, 1957; 59 years ago (1957-09-02)
WDPB: December 4, 1981; 35 years ago (1981-12-04)
Call letters' meaning WHYY:
Wider Horizons for
You and Yours
WDPB:
Delaware Public
Broadcasting
Sister station(s) WHYY-FM
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • WHYY:
  • 35 (UHF, 1957–1963)
  • 12 (VHF, 1963–2009)
  • WDPB:
  • 64 (UHF, 1981–2009)
  • Digital:
  • WHYY:
  • 50 (UHF, 1999–2009)
Former affiliations NET (1957–1970)
Transmitter power WHYY: 20 kW
WDPB: 98 kW
Height WHYY: 259 m
WDPB: 196 m
Facility ID WHYY: 72338
WDPB: 72335
Transmitter coordinates WHYY:
40°2′30.9″N 75°14′21.9″W / 40.041917°N 75.239417°W / 40.041917; -75.239417Coordinates: 40°2′30.9″N 75°14′21.9″W / 40.041917°N 75.239417°W / 40.041917; -75.239417
WDPB:
38°39′16.1″N 75°36′39.1″W / 38.654472°N 75.610861°W / 38.654472; -75.610861 (WDPB)
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: / WDPB Profile
/ WDPB CDBS
Website WHYY

WHYY-TV, VHF digital channel 12, is the primary PBS member television station serving Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States that is licensed to Wilmington, Delaware. The station is owned by WHYY, Inc., and is a sister station to NPR member radio station WHYY-FM (90.9). The two stations maintain studio and office facilities on Independence Mall in Center City Philadelphia; WHYY-TV also operates a secondary studio in Wilmington; both stations share a transmitter located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.

WHYY-TV also operates a satellite station, WDPB (channel 64) in Seaford, Delaware, which serves the Delmarva Peninsula region. It is one of three PBS member stations serving the Philadelphia market, alongside WLVT-TV (channel 39) and NJTV (channels 23 and 52) as well as the other PBS member station serving the Salisbury market, alongside MPT (Channel 28).

The station signed on the air on September 2, 1957, originally broadcasting on UHF channel 35. It was the 23rd non-commercial educational television station in the United States, and the second to operate in Pennsylvania (WQED-TV in Pittsburgh had signed on three years earlier). It was owned by the Metropolitan Philadelphia Educational Radio and Television Corporation. It broadcast from a studio on Chestnut Street in Center City, which had previously been occupied by WCAU-TV (channel 10).


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