WOSU-TV
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WOSU: Columbus, Ohio WPBO: Portsmouth, Ohio United States |
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| Branding | WOSU TV |
| Channels |
Digital: WOSU: 38 (UHF) WPBO: 43 (UHF) Virtual: WOSU: 34 (PSIP) WPBO: 42 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 34.1 PBS 34.2 Ohio Channel 34.3 WOSU Plus 34.4 PBS Kids |
| Translators | W43CZ-D Mansfield |
| Affiliations | PBS (1970–present) |
| Owner | The Ohio State University |
| First air date |
WOSU: February 20, 1956 WPBO: October 1973 |
| Call letters' meaning |
WOSU: Public Broadcasting in Southern Ohio |
| Sister station(s) | WOSU, WOSU-FM, WOSA |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: WOSU: 34 (UHF, 1956–2009) WPBO: 42 (UHF, 1973–2009) |
| Former affiliations | NET (1956–1970) |
| Transmitter power |
WOSU: 503 kW WPBO: 50 kW |
| Height |
WOSU: 291 m WPBO: 382 m |
| Facility ID |
WOSU: 66185 WPBO: 66190 |
| Transmitter coordinates |
WOSU: 40°9′33″N 82°55′23″W / 40.15917°N 82.92306°W WPBO: 38°45′42″N 83°3′41″W / 38.76167°N 83.06139°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
/ WPBO Profile / WPBO CDBS |
| Website | www.WOSU.org/television/ |
WOSU:
Ohio
State
University
WOSU-TV (digital channel 38, virtual channel 34) is an American public television station located in Columbus, Ohio, affiliated with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and is a service of WOSU Public Media. The station's signal covers most of central Ohio. It is owned by Ohio State University, and operates full-time satellite WPBO-TV in Portsmouth, Ohio. WPBO-TV broadcasts on digital 43, serving extreme southern Ohio and the western edge of the Huntington-Charleston, West Virginia market area.
Ohio State first sought an educational license in 1950, for channel 12. However, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) turned down two requests for that allocation (most likely due to concerns about interference with WKRC-TV in Cincinnati) instead giving OSU channel 34. WOSU-TV first broadcast on February 20, 1956. In 1959, a grant from the Ford Foundation allowed the station to purchase the first video tape recorder in Ohio. WOSU-TV began broadcasting in color in 1968, telecasting the football game between Ohio State and Michigan. The color telecast helped to popularize the UHF band in Columbus, an otherwise all-VHF market at the time.
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