WNPT (TV)
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Nashville, Tennessee United States |
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| Branding | NPT – Nashville Public Television |
| Slogan | Television Worth Watching |
| Channels |
Digital: 8 (VHF) 7 (VHF) (CP) Virtual: 8 () |
| Subchannels | 8.1 PBS 8.2 Npt2 8.3 PBS Kids |
| Affiliations | PBS (since 1970) |
| Owner | Nashville Public Television, Inc. |
| First air date | September 10, 1962 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Nashville Public Television |
| Former callsigns | WDCN-TV (1962–2000) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 2 (VHF, 1962–1973) 8 (VHF, 1973–2009) Digital: 46 (UHF, until 2009) |
| Former affiliations | NET (1962–1970) |
| Transmitter power | 17.65 kW |
| Height | 390 metres (1,280 ft) |
| Facility ID | 41398 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°2′50.4″N 86°49′48.9″W / 36.047333°N 86.830250°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.wnpt.org |
WNPT, VHF channel 8, is a PBS member television station located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The station is owned by Nashville Public Television, Inc., a community-funded, nonprofit organization. The station's studios are located on Rains Avenue in southeast Nashville, and its transmitter is located in the southern suburb of Forest Hills.
The station signed on the air on September 10, 1962, as WDCN-TV (for Davidson County Nashville), on VHF channel 2. It is Tennessee's second-oldest educational television station, behind WKNO-TV in Memphis, established six years earlier in 1956. It was originally licensed to the board of Nashville Public Schools, which became an arm of the metropolitan government when Nashville and Davidson County merged in 1963. Like most eventual PBS member stations, WDCN was mainly established to serve area schoolchildren with educational programming.
In the early 1970s, WDCN agreed to swap channel frequencies with ABC affiliate WSIX-TV, which was seeking a stronger signal. Metro agreed to trade frequencies upon realizing that WDCN's core audience would be better served on channel 8, despite its limited reach (the channel 8 transmitter facility in Nashville was short-spaced to fellow PBS station WGTV in Atlanta). Although the channel 2 signal traveled a very long distance under normal conditions, several Middle Tennessee viewers did not get a good signal from WDCN because the original frequency was short-spaced to another Atlanta station, WSB-TV.
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