WMVT
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin United States |
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| Branding | Milwaukee PBS 36 |
| Slogan | Opening Your World |
| Channels |
Digital: 35 (UHF) Virtual: 36 () |
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| Owner |
Milwaukee Area Technical College (Milwaukee Area Technical College District Board) |
| First air date | January 29, 1963 |
| Call letters' meaning | Milwaukee Vocational and Technical Schools |
| Sister station(s) | WMVS |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 36 (UHF, 1963–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 500 kW |
| Height | 354.9 m |
| Facility ID | 42665 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°5′45.7″N 87°54′15.3″W / 43.096028°N 87.904250°WCoordinates: 43°5′45.7″N 87°54′15.3″W / 43.096028°N 87.904250°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WMVT, virtual channel 36 (UHF digital channel 35), is a PBS member television station located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The station is owned by the Milwaukee Area Technical College, which also owns sister PBS member station WMVS (channel 10). The two stations are collectively branded as "Milwaukee PBS". WMVT and WMVS share studio facilities located at the Continuing Education Center on the Milwaukee Area Technical College campus on North 8th Street in downtown Milwaukee, and its transmitter is located on North Humboldt Boulevard in Milwaukee's Estabrook Park neighborhood.
WMVT and WMVS operate separately from the Wisconsin Public Television state network that is owned by the University of Wisconsin Extension and serves the rest of the state; however Milwaukee Area Technical College/Milwaukee Public Television coordinate instructional television efforts for their broadcast area. The station's programming is also available on the video on demand service, Wisconsin On Demand 1111, on Time Warner Cable systems across southeastern Wisconsin.
The station first signed on the air on January 28, 1963. Upon a September 2010 realignment of its digital signal, the station's changed its on-air branding to "MPTV-36.1 HD".
WMVT's digital signal, which broadcasts on UHF channel 35, is multiplexed into six different digital subchannels, with virtual channel 36.1 broadcasting high definition programming in the 720p format and its five additional subchannel services broadcasting in 480i standard definition.
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