WMVT

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WMVT
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Branding Milwaukee Public Television, Channel 36 or MPTV-36
Slogan There's nothing commercial about it.
Channels Analog: 36 (UHF)

Digital: 35 (UHF, utilized for WMVS' HD feed)
Affiliations PBS
Wisconsin Public Television (sports/public affairs)
Wisconsin Educational Communications Board (instructional)
Owner Milwaukee Area Technical College
Founded January 29, 1963
Call letters’ meaning Milwaukee Vocational and Technical Schools
Transmitter Power 4790 kW (analog)
500 kW (digital)
Height 339.8 m (analog)
354.9 m (digital)
Facility ID 42665
Transmitter Coordinates 43°5′45.7″N, 87°54′15.3″W
Website MPTV.org

WMVT (Channel 36) is a television station located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its signal covers most of southeastern Wisconsin, including the cities of Racine, Kenosha, Sheboygan, and Waukesha.

WMVT is a noncommercial public broadcasting station, which is a member of PBS. WMVT's owner, Milwaukee Area Technical College, also owns sister Milwaukee PBS affiliate WMVS. Both stations together refer to themselves collectively as Milwaukee Public Television.

WMVT airs more documentary, instructional, DIY, and news programming than WMVS' general PBS schedule, and is the Milwaukee affiliate for Wisconsin Educational Communications Board's instructional telecourse programs for students and teachers, along with most Wisconsin Badgers sports coverage from WPT. Also, PBS primetime programming moves to Channel 36 while Channel 10 holds their annual auction and pledge drives. The station also airs The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on a half-hour delay in lieu of WMVS.

WMVT also has a "Student Operations Day" yearly on the first Saturday in May, where the students in MATC's broadcasting department use the MPTV facilities to produce their own shows to air on Channel 36, which vary from serious educational and history programs to comedy shows.

WMVT-DT's digital channel 35 is used for WMVS's HDTV channel for PBS Digital programs, freeing up WMVS's own digital signal for digital subchannels without affecting signal quality. However, WMVT's analog schedule does not currently air digitally on any subchannel of WMVS-DT 8, so the Channel 36 schedule is currently available only through analog television.

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WMVT began broadcasting on January 28, 1963.

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Broadcast television in the Milwaukee market  (Nielsen DMA #34)
Local television stations

WTMJ 4 (NBC, WX+ on DT2) - WITI 6 (FOX) - WMKE-CA 7 (A1) - WMVS 10 (PBS/MPTV, World on DT1, V-me on DT2, Kids on DT3, Create on DT4, NOAA WX info/WisDOT traffic on DT5-DT8) - WISN 12 (ABC) - WVTV 18 (The CW) - WCGV 24 (MNTV) - W29DJ 29 (UNK) - WVCY 30 (FN) - WMVT 36 (PBS/MPTV, WMVS-HD on DT1) - WBWT-LP 38 (AZA) - WMLW-CA 41 (IND) - WBME 49 (IND classic TV) - WWRS 52 (TBN, Church on DT2, JCTV on DT3, Enlace on DT4, SoaC on DT5) - WPXE 55 (ION, qubo on DT2, ION Life on DT3, Worship on DT4) - WDJT 58 (CBS, WMLW on DT2, WBME on DT3) - WYTU-LP 63 (TMD)
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Reception may vary
Local cable television channels
See also

Broadcast television stations in Madison, Green Bay, Chicago and Grand Rapids, MI
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PBS Station Networks/Member Stations in the state of Wisconsin
Wisconsin Public Television
WHRM 20 (Wausau)  · WHA 21 (Madison)  · WHWC 28 (Menomonie/Eau Claire)
WHLA 31 (La Crosse)  · WLEF 36 (Park Falls)  · WPNE 38 (Green Bay)
Milwaukee Public Television

WMVS 10  · WMVT 36
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MNTV, NBC and Other stations in Wisconsin