WYBE
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania/ New York, New York United States |
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| Branding | MiND: Media Independence |
| Channels |
Digital: 35 (UHF) Virtual: 35 () |
| Affiliations | Non-commercial educational Independent |
| Owner | Independence Media |
| First air date | 1963 (original incarnation, in Philadelphia) June 10, 1990 (current incarnation, for Philadelphia region) December 2010 (for New York City region) |
| Former callsigns | WUHY-TV (1963–1975) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 35 (UHF, 1990–2009) Digital: 34 (UHF, 1998–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Instructional television (1963–1975) 35.66 WNYJ-TV Simulcast |
| Transmitter power | 450 kW |
| Height | 343 m |
| Facility ID | 28480 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°2′30.1″N 75°14′10″W / 40.041694°N 75.23611°WCoordinates: 40°2′30.1″N 75°14′10″W / 40.041694°N 75.23611°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.mindtv.org |
WYBE, UHF digital channel 35, is a non-commercial educational independent television station located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by Independence Public Media of Philadelphia (also known as Independence Media). WYBE maintains offices on the southwest edge of the Northern Liberties neighborhood with transmitter facilities in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.
The station's main channel was previously carried in the New York City television market on the 66.4 digital subchannel of MHz WorldView affiliate WNYJ-TV. Now, the only relationship is WNYJ's main channel is carried over WYBE's 35.5 subchannel.
The UHF channel 35 allocation in Philadelphia was first used by WHYY-TV in 1957. However, it was obvious by then that a UHF station was not nearly enough to serve a market that stretched from the Lehigh Valley to the north to the Jersey Shore in the south. In 1963, WHYY moved its call letters and programming to VHF channel 12, licensed to nearby Wilmington, Delaware. Metropolitan Philadelphia Educational Radio and Television, owner of WHYY, continued to operate channel 35 as WUHY-TV, using it mostly to air instructional programming on weekdays (outside of designated legal and administrative holidays) during the school year. WUHY-TV was the first station in the world to broadcast Sesame Street during a week of test broadcasts in July 1969. A slightly-retooled version of the show made its national premiere on National Educational Television (NET) four months later in November 1969.
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