Mississippi Public Broadcasting

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MPB (Mississippi Public Broadcasting)
Statewide Mississippi
Branding	MPB
Channels	(various, see article) analog, (various, see FCC data in "External Links") digital
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	Mississippi Authority for Educational Television
Founded	1970
Transmitter Power	(see FCC data in "External Links")
Website	mpbonline.org

Mississippi Public Broadcasting is the public broadcasting network in Mississippi. Owned by the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television, it holds the licenses for all of the PBS and NPR stations in the state.

Mississippi was a relative latecomer to public broadcasting. One factor may have been that PBS and its predecessor, National Educational Television (NET), aired news and documentary programs very supportive of the Civil Rights Movement, as well as some critical of the Vietnam War, stands both highly unpopular in much of the state. It is further possible, although not proven, that the ongoing struggles between Jackson's NBC station, WLBT, and the FCC in the 1960s over service to African-Americans may well have held up any consideration for public television service to the state.

Finally in 1970, WMAA-TV began operating in Jackson as the first PBS station in the state. This made Mississippi the last state east of the Mississippi River to start public television service within its own borders. Before then, the only portions of the state to get a clear signal from a PBS station were the northwest (from Memphis' WKNO-TV) and the Gulf Coast (from New Orleans' WYES-TV). Six other stations signed on over the next few years, and the network became known as Mississippi Educational Television, or simply Mississippi ETV. Public radio was even later in arriving in the state, in 1984. Eventually, Public Radio in Mississippi expanded to eight stations throughout the state.

In 2005, MAET adopted "Mississippi Public Broadcasting" as an unbrella on-air name for all television and radio operations.

[edit] MPB Television

Station	Analog Channel	Digital Channel	City	Also Serves	Callsign Meaning
WMPN	29	20	Jackson		Mississippi Public Network (WMAA until March 1990)
WMAH	19	16	Biloxi		Mississippi Authority Harrison County
WMAE	12	55	Booneville	Tupelo Florence, Alabama	Mississippi Authority Eastern Mississippi
WMAU	17	18	Bude	Natchez	Mississippi Authority BUde
WMAO	23	25	Greenwood	Greenville	Mississippi Authority
WMAW	14	44	Meridian		Mississippi Authority
WMAB	2	10	Mississippi State	Columbus	Mississippi Authority
WMAV	18	36	Oxford	Memphis, Tennessee	Mississippi Authority
WMAA	-	43	Columbus		Mississippi Authority

Mississippi Public Broadcasting also operates two translator stations:

Station	Channel	City
W45AA	45	Columbia
W47BP	47	Hattiesburg

[edit] MPB Radio

MPB Radio can be listened to online via a Windows Media format. [1]

• Jackson: WMPN 91.3
• Biloxi: WMAH 90.3
• Booneville: WMAE 89.5
• Bude: WMAU 88.9
• Greenwood: WMAO 90.9
• Meridian: WMAW 88.1
• Mississippi State: WMAB 89.9
• Oxford: WMAV 90.3

[edit] External link

• Official site
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WMPN
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WMAH
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WMAE
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WMAU
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WMAO
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WMAW
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WMAB
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WMAV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WMAA
• Query the FCC's TV station database for W45AA
• Query the FCC's TV station database for W47BP
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WMPN
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WMAH
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WMAE
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WMAU
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WMAO
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WMAW
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WMAB
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WMAV