WBGU-TV
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| WBGU-TV | |
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| Bowling Green, Ohio | |
| Branding | WBGU |
| Channels | 27 (UHF) analog, 56 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | Bowling Green State University |
| Founded | February 10, 1964 (on ch.70; moved to ch.57 in 1966, then to ch.27 in 1984) |
| Call letters meaning | Bowling Green State University |
| Former affiliations | NET (1964-1970) |
| Transmitter Power | 1000 kw |
| Website | WBGU-TV website |
WBGU-TV is a PBS member station, owned and operated by Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Unlike its companion radio station, WBGU (FM), WBGU-TV is not primarily operated by students at the university.
The station was founded in 1964 and currently operates at the Tucker Center for Telecommunications on the campus of Bowling Green State University. (While officially part of the BGSU campus, the Tucker Center is located two blocks south of Wooster Street, which marks much of the southern boundary of the campus.) Each weekday during the academic term of public schools in the Great Black Swamp region, WBGU-TV broadcasts six hours of educational programming provided (and, in some cases, created) by the Northwest Ohio Educational Technology Foundation. The NWOET is operated at the Tucker Center, but is a non-profit state agency separate from the university.
[edit] History
On February 10, 1964, WBGU-TV(originally licensed to Lima but operating in Bowling Green) signed on the air for the first time, initially on channel 70, then later moving to channel 57 in 1966, before moving to channel 27 in 1984. The station first broadcasted from a small studio located in the university's South Hall. After the Moore Musical Arts Center was built in 1979, the university's radio stations and telecommunications department (then the department of radio, television, and film) moved to West Hall, which formerly housed the university's college of music. Sometime after that, WBGU-TV moved to a new building located at 245 Troup Avenue in Bowling Green. The building was renamed the Tucker Center on May 6, 1994.
During the 1970s and early-1980s, WBGU had a low-powered repeater in Fort Wayne, Indiana on channel 39 (later to change over to Indianapolis' WFYI), which became full-powered WFWA in 1985.
Today, WBGU-TV broadcasts to nineteen counties in Northwest and West Central Ohio including the markets of Toledo and Lima; depending on antenna used, WBGU's signal could be tuned in as far west as Fort Wayne and as far north as southwestern Washtenaw County, Michigan.
This station has also produced many local documentaries that provide entertainment and history of the Northwest Ohio and Southern Michigan region. Some of those documentaries are as follows:
The 1:1 Future (marketing - features Martha Rogers, Ph.D. and Don Peppers), Return On Customer(marketing - features Martha Rogers, Ph.D. and Don Peppers), 1934 Electric Auto-Lite Strike Baseball in Japan Ben Richmond: Artist, Entrepreneur Bicycling Through the Past The Blizzard of '78 Cedar Point Memories The Chemo Paintings To Dance Irish Dominick Labino: The Man and his Art Doyt Perry: A Coach for Life German Catholic Country: West Central Ohio George Carruth: An American Sculptor Hamler Summer Fest The Hayes Presidential Center: Revisiting the Past The Hines Blues Farm Historic Courthouses of NW Ohio These Old Houses: Historic Homes of NW Ohio Let Their Voices be Heard (Children's Grief) Looking for a Face Like Mine(multicultural understanding) Ketchup: King of Condiments No Kiddie Without a Christmas(Goodfellows, Detroit Newsboys) Ohio Crude: The Excitement of Ohio's Oil and Gas Booms Ohio Workers: 1803-1990 Playing from the Heart: The Story of Jesse Ponce(conjunto musician) Stirring Up The Past: The Grand Rapids Applebutter Fest The Schedel Gardens: A Living Vision The Story of the Great Black Swamp Wind Energy: Coming of Age in Ohio
[edit] External links
- WBGU-TV website
- Northwest Ohio Educational Technology Foundation
- The Tucker Center for Telecommunications
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WBGU
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W09CG 9 (TBN) - WTOL 11 (CBS) - WTVG 13 (ABC) - W21BF 21 (IND) - WFND 22 (A1/Daystar) - W22CO 22 (TBN) - WNWO 24 (NBC, The Tube on DT2, WX+ on DT3) - WDFM 26 (IND) - WBGU 27 (PBS) - WGTE 30 (PBS) - WBTL 34 (AS) - WUPW 36 (Fox) - W38DH 38 (AS) - WLMB 40 (FamilyNet) - WMNT 48 (MNTV/A1) - WGGN 52 (TBN) |
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| See also: Broadcast television stations in the Detroit-Windsor, Lansing, Cleveland, Columbus, Lima, Fort Wayne and London Markets | ||
| Broadcast television in the Lima, Ohio market (Nielsen DMA #185) | ||
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WLQP-LP 18 (ABC/A1) - WOHL-CA 25 (FOX/MNTV) - WBGU 27 (PBS) - WLIO 35 (NBC/The CW on DT2) - WLMO-LP 38 (CBS/A1) - WTLW 44 (i) |
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WHIO 7 (CBS, Dayton) - WBNS 10 (CBS, Columbus) - WTVG 13 (ABC, Toledo) |
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| PBS Member Stations in the state of Ohio | |
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WPTD 16 / WPTO 14 (Dayton / Oxford) - WOUB 20 / WOUC 44 (Athens / Cambridge) - WVIZ 25 (Cleveland) - WBGU 27 (Bowling Green) - WGTE 30 (Toledo) - WOSU 34 / WPBO 42 (Columbus / Portsmouth) - WNEO 45 / WEAO 49 (Youngstown / Akron) - WCET 48 (Cincinnati) |
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