WMHT (TV)
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| WMHT | |
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| Schenectady/Albany/Troy, New York | |
| Channels | Analog: 17 (UHF) |
| Translators | W04AJ Glens Falls W04BD Schoharie W42AE Poughkeepsie |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | WMHT Educational Telecommunications |
| First air date | March 26, 1962 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Mohawk Hudson Television |
| Sister station(s) | WMHT-FM |
| Former affiliations | NET (1962-1970) |
| Transmitter Power | 2630 kW (analog) 325 kW (digital) |
| Height | 299 m (analog) 426 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 73263 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | (analog) (digital) |
| Website | www.wmht.org |
WMHT is the call sign for a television station and radio station in Schenectady, New York owned and operated by WMHT Educational Telecommunications. Its transmitter is located in the Helderberg Mountains in Albany County, New York.
WMHT signed on the air on March 26, 1962 on UHF channel 17 as the Capital District's first public television station and the second in the state of New York. From the outset the network was affiliated with NET and became one of PBS's charter affiliates after the two networks merged in 1970. In 1972, WMHT expanded into FM radio by launching the first noncommercial classical music station in the United States (a format that continues to this day).
In 1987, WMHT purchased the assets of independent station WUSV channel 45 and made it a secondary programming service under the calls WMHX. Due to financial difficulties, WMHT shut WMHX down in 1991 and returned it to the air three years later under the calls WMHQ. In the late 1990's, WMHQ's commercial licence became attractive and WMHT sold it to the Tribune Company for $18.5 million in 1999 with the station becoming WB affiliate WEWB that September (it today is CW affiliate WCWN, owned by Freedom Communications). The money from this sale allowed WMHT to expand into digital television and build a new state-of-the-art studio in Troy to replace their original facilities in Rotterdam.
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[edit] Digital transition
WMHT-DT signed on in 2003 on channel 34, becoming the second digital television signal in the Capital Region (third if counting WCDC-DT). Currently there are three subchannels on WMHT-DT:
- WMHT2/ThinkBright on 17.2
- WMHT HD on 17.3
- Simulcast of 17.1 on 17.4
WMHT will cease broadcasting on analog channel 17 and its digital signal will move from channel 34 to channel 17.
[edit] Outlying translators
- W04AJ Glens Falls
- W04BD Schoharie
Also, W42AE[1] in Poughkeepsie, owned by Dutchess Community College, repeats WMHT except for several hours a week when classes are in session.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- WMHT website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WMHT
- Query the FCC's TV station database for W04AJ
- Query the FCC's TV station database for W04BD
- Query the FCC's TV station database for W42AE
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WMHT-TV
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