Whyy-TV (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! WHYY-TV, channel 12, is the PBS member station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its main studio and office facility is co-located with sister station WHYY-FM (90.9 MHz.) in Center City Philadelphia. The station also operates a secondary studio in Wilmington, Delaware, its city of license. Both stations share a transmitter, which is located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia. WHYY-TV also operates WDPB (channel 64) in Seaford, Delaware, a full-time satellite which serves the Delmarva Peninsula. WHYY-TV signed on for the first time on September 2, 1957, on channel 35. It was the 23rd educational station in the country, and the second in Pennsylvania (WQED-TV in Pittsburgh had signed on three years earlier). It was owned by Metropolitan Philadelphia Educational Radio and Television Corporation. It broadcast from a studio on Chestnut Street in Center City, which had previously been home to WCAU-TV (channel 10).