WLIW

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WLIW
Garden City/New York, New York
Branding	WLIW 21
Slogan	New York Public Television
Channels	21 (UHF) analog, 22 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	Educational Broadcasting Corp.
Founded	January 6, 1969
Call letters meaning	W Long Island West
Former affiliations	NET (1969-1970)
Website	www.wliw.org

WLIW is a Long Island PBS member station that serves the New York City area. Located on UHF channel 21 (digital channel 22), it is licensed to Garden City while its studios are in Plainview, both located in Nassau County on Long Island.

WLIW began transmitting on January 6, 1969 and is the fourth most watched PBS station in the country. In February 2003, the station completed a merger to combine its operations with WNET in nearby New York City.

Many programs produced by WLIW are broadcast on PBS stations across the country, such as the innovative Visions series and many music specials featuring noted American performers like Frank Sinatra, Neil Sedaka, Rick Nelson and international stars like Helmut Lotti and Sarah Brightman. Regular hosts of these specials produced for PBS include Laura Savini, Terrill Cass, Joe Campbell, Mark Simone and Lisa Jandovitz.

WLIW is the distributor for BBC World News in the United States, which is seen on 229 PBS-TV members & affiliates.

[edit] External link

• Official website of WLIW
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WLIW

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Broadcast television in the New York City market (Nielsen DMA #1)

Local television stations WCBS 2 (CBS) - WNBC 4 (NBC, WX+ on DT2) - WNYW 5 (Fox, WWOR-TV on DT2) - WABC 7 (ABC, AccuWeather on DT3) - WWOR 9 (MyNetworkTV, WNYW on DT2) - WPIX 11 (The CW, The Tube on DT2) - WNET 13 (PBS, Kids on DT2) - WEBR-CA 17 (GCN) - WLIW 21 (PBS, Create! on DT3) - WMBQ-CA 22 (MTV2) - WNYE 25 (NYC TV) - WNXY-LP 26 (Ind) - WPXN 31 (ION) - WXNY-LP 32 (AS) - WNYX-LP 35 (Ind) - W36AZ 36 (PBS/NJN) - WDVB-CA 39 (ImaginAsian) - WNYN-LP 39 (Azteca América) - WXTV 41 (UNI) - WKOB-LP 42 (Daystar) - WSAH 43 (S@H/JTV) - WNJU 47 (TMD) - WEDW 49 (PBS/CPTV) - WNJN 50 / WNJB 58 (PBS/NJN) - WVVH-LP 50 (A1/RSN) - WTBY 54 (TBN) - WRNN-LP 57 (Ind/ JTV, FUN on DT3) - W60AI 60 (HSN) - WMBC 63 (Ind) - WFME 66 (Religious) - WFTY 67 (TFR) - WFUT 68 (TFR)
Local digital-only channels WRNN 48 (Ind/JTV, FUN on DT3) - WLNY 57 (Ind) (Both stations also have low-powered analog repeaters.)
Local cable television channels CN8 - FSN New York - MSG Network - News 12 - NY1 - NYCTV - SportsNet New York - YES Network
Past local cable television channels MSG Metro Channels - WWOR EMI Service - KC2XAK (experimental OTA UHF transmitter, Ch. 24)
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