WNVT: Goldvein, Virginia WNVC: Fairfax, Virginia |
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Branding | MHz Networks |
Slogan | Programming for Globally-Minded People |
Channels |
Digital: WNVT: 30 (UHF) WNVC: 24 (UHF) |
Subchannels | (see article) |
Affiliations | Non-commercial Independent |
Owner | MHz Networks Corporation |
First air date |
WNVT: March 1, 1972 WNVC: June 6, 1981 |
Call letters' meaning |
Northern Virginia Television Northern Virginia College |
Former channel number(s) |
Analog: WNVT: 53 (UHF, 1972–2003) WNVC: 56 (UHF, 1981–2008) Digital: WNVC: 57 (UHF) |
Former affiliations | PBS (1972–2001) |
Transmitter power |
WNVT: 160 kW WNVC: 160 kW |
Height |
WNVT: 229 m WNVC: 221 m |
Facility ID |
WNVT: 10019 WNVC: 9999 |
Transmitter coordinates |
WNVT: 38°37′43″N 77°26′21″W / 38.62861°N 77.43917°WCoordinates: 38°37′43″N 77°26′21″W / 38.62861°N 77.43917°W WNVC: 38°52′28″N 77°13′24″W / 38.87444°N 77.22333°W |
Website | http://www.mhznetworks.org |
MHz Networks is a Northern Virginia based independent, non-commercial educational broadcaster that serves the Washington, D.C. area with 12 digital broadcast channels. The legal broadcast callsigns for the two stations are WNVC (channel 24) and WNVT (channel 30), rebranded as MHz Networks. WNVC is licensed to Fairfax, Virginia with studios in Falls Church, Virginia and WNVT is licensed in Goldvein, Virginia.
MHz Networks headquarters and studios are located in Falls Church, VA with an additional business office/studio located at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
Available as digital broadcast channels 30.1–30.12, MHz Networks channels are also available on all cable, satellite and telco providers in the Washington, DC area, including Comcast, Cox, RCN, Verizon FiOS, DirecTV and Dish Network.
MHz Networks also distributes its national channel, MHz Worldview, throughout the U.S. to more than 40 million households through its network of digital broadcast, cable, satellite and telco affiliates.
MHz Networks is available nationally on a series of digital spaces: including mobile (iOS and Android mobile and tablet apps), live news audio at AudioNow, broadband (Roku digital video player) over the top TV (Google TV), VOD and innovative MHz Networks Home Entertainment retail, as well as Amazon Video, Hulu. Additional launches are scheduled for 2014.
MHz International Mystery presents the largest collection of crime fiction from around the world to an American audience. Mankell’s Wallander, Simenon’s Maigret, Leon’s Brunetti, Annika Bengtzon, and Camilleri’s Montalbano are among the many literary bestsellers adapted into riveting global television. MHz International Mystery is featured in prime time each evening at 9 PM ET nationally on MHz Worldview and exclusively on MHz Home Entertainment DVD collections with English subtitles.
MHz Home Entertainment offers a platform of nearly 100 award-winning international mysteries, crime and political dramas from around the globe. The programs are available on a proprietary MHz DVD product at shop.mhznetworks.org or by streaming at www.mhznetworks.org, Hulu, Amazon Video and Roku digital video players.