WNIN (TV)
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Evansville, Indiana United States |
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| Branding | WNIN |
| Slogan | Building A Better Tri-State, Together |
| Channels |
Digital: 9 (VHF) Virtual: 9 () |
| Subchannels | 9.1 PBS 9.2 Create 9.3 PBS Kids 9.4 WNIN-FM |
| Affiliations | PBS (1970–1972 and since 1973) |
| Owner | WNIN Tri-State Public Media, Inc. |
| First air date | March 5, 1970 |
| Call letters' meaning | Channel NINe |
| Sister station(s) | WNIN-FM |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 9 (VHF, 1970–2009) Digital: 12 (VHF, until 2009) |
| Former affiliations |
NET (March–October 1970) Dark (1972–1973) |
| Transmitter power | 19 kW (digital) |
| Height | 304 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 67802 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°59′1″N 87°16′13″W / 37.98361°N 87.27028°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.wnin.org/ |
WNIN is a public television station in Evansville, Indiana, broadcasting locally on channel 9 as a PBS member station. The station is owned by WNIN Tri-State Public Media, who also owns sister station WNIN-FM, the local NPR member station. The station broadcasts from the Willard Carpenter House in downtown Evansville, which is on the United States National Register of Historic Places. Brad Kimmel is the president of WNIN. On cable, WNIN is available on WOW! channel 2 and Charter Spectrum channel 9 in standard definition; and in high definition on WOW! digital channel 802 and Spectrum channel 916.
WNIN signed on for the first time on March 5, 1970 owned by the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation. After a few months as a member of National Educational Television, it joined PBS in October.
Despite having the advantage of being on one of two VHF frequencies in the Tri-State, EVSC soon found itself in over its head running a full-service public television station. Within a year, WNIN was $59,000 in the red. Unable to raise enough money to close the gap, it took WNIN off the air in 1972. A year later, a group of Tri-State citizens formed Southwest Indiana Public Television (later known as Tri-State Public Teleplex and now known as Tri-State Public Media) and returned the station to the air. It bought the Carpenter House in 1986 and retired the mortgage on it three years later with the help of a capital campaign.
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