| San Juan, Puerto Rico | |
|---|---|
| Branding | Puerto Rico TV |
| Channels | Digital: 43 (UHF) |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Translators | WIPM-TV 35 Mayagüez |
| Owner | Corporación de Puerto Rico para la Difusión Pública (Puerto Rico Public Broadcasting Corporation) |
| First air date | January 6, 1958 |
| Call letters' meaning | Instrucción Pública Radio-Televisión |
| Former channel number(s) | 6 (1958–2009, analog) |
| Former affiliations | NET (1958–1970) Public Broadcasting Service (1970–2011) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 776 m |
| Class | Full service |
| Facility ID | 53859 |
| Website | Puerto Rico Network |
WIPR-TV is an non-commercial educational, full-power public television station located in San Juan, Puerto Rico transmitting over analog channel 6, digital 43. The station is owned and operated by Corporación de Puerto Rico para la Difusión Pública (English: Puerto Rico Corporation for Public Broadcasting). Most of its television shows on the main channel is local programming.
Because of its audience, much of WIPR's programming is in Spanish, as with most Puerto Rico television stations. The station is branded as Puerto Rico TV. Previously, the station was branded as Teve 6 / Teve 3 and TUTV - Tu Universo Televisión.
WIPR-TV operates a semi-satellite on the island west Coast, WIPM-TV, channel 3 in Mayagüez. WIPM-TV largely repeats WIPR, but does produce some local programming. WIPM-TV transmits its digital signal on channel 35, virtual 3.
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WIPR-TV was created as a result of lobbying for public broadcasting in Puerto Rico, beginning in the 1950s. The station went on the air for the first time on Three Kings Day (January 6), 1958 becoming the first educational television station in Latin America.
It was also unique among other government-controlled broadcasters in the Caribbean as it did not show commercials. All other government-controlled broadcasters (with the exception of Cuba and the US Virgin Islands) showed advertising.
The station was one of the few TV stations in Puerto Rico with English-language programming, via a membership with PBS (and an affiliation with National Educational Television prior to PBS' founding in 1970); this ended on July 1, 2011 after WIPR and PBS failed to reach an agreement to renew the station's membership, with money previously allocated to PBS membership dues being invested in the station's extensive local programming. PBS programming remains available on Puerto Rico via WMTJ.[1]
In 1996, WIPR-TV was the first Puerto Rican television station that used streaming media to broadcast programming to the internet.
General Administrators for Radio and Television Services under the Department of Education
Executive Directors/Presidents (CPRDP)
The channel celebrated their 50th anniversary by producing a documentary focusing on their history.[2] On July 1, 2008, TuTv renewed 150 contracts.[3]
In 2008, Puerto Rico’s Public Broadcasting Station, WIPR-TV, celebrated it’s 50 years of broadcasting with a documentary that relived some of the best and worst moments in its history.
The documentary "50 Años WIPR-Televisión", (50 Years of WIPR Television) is about 70 minutes long and reviews some of the news, entertainment programming, music and sports events that the station has presented during half a century.
WIPR-TV, today better known as the Puerto Rico’s Public Broadcasting Corporation (CPRDP), or its branding, TUTV or Tu Universo Televisión, was inaugurated on January 6, 1958 under the administration of the then-current governor, Luis Muñoz Marín.
The documentary was dedicated to the actor, director and historian Ángel Rivera Vázquez, who had worked in WIPR since its beginning.
Spearheaded by Investigator Flavia García, who had been working for the previous 9 years on an investigation of the history of television, headed the production of this special along with Luis Rosario Albert and Susanne Marte.
The Corporation’s President, Víctor J. Montilla, received a congratulatory resolution on behalf of the Puerto Rican Senate for the “good music, art and television” that have distinguished the channel for the past five decades.
Some of the historical moments aired include:
WIPR-TV, the island's first public television station, also became the first in the evolution to digital and high definition.[4] .On July 7, 2008, President Víctor J. Montilla held a press conference at the station, where he inaugurated WIPR-TV's high definition facilities. TUTV became the first station in Puerto Rico to produce and broadcast in high definition format.[5] The station created new scenarios and employed several illumination estragies to abjust the product.[6] Some artists underwent lifestyle changes, including abjusting their diet, to project a better image in the higher definition.[6] The first program to be transmitted in this format was "Contigo".[7]
The digital signals of WIPR and WIPM are multiplexed:
Digital channels
| Channel | Name |
|---|---|
| 6.1 / 3.1 | Puerto Rico TV HD |
| 6.2 / 3.2 | Create TV (includes programming from Create and PBS World) |
| 6.3 / 3.3 | Kids TV Puerto Rico (featuring mainly PBS Kids programming and local shows) |
| 6.4 / 3.4 | V-me |
| 6.5 / 3.5 | Noticias 24/7 (news channel) |
| 6.6 / 3.6 | WIPR live feed |
There is also a Cable channel that is only available in cable systems in the United States it is known as the Puerto Rico Network.
In the 1980's the station had a highly-praised newscast called "Panorama Mundial" (World View), hosted by Doris Torres. In 1996, WIPR launched a newscast branded as Noti-Seis or "News Six". The newscast was first anchored by Pedro Luis García and Gloria Soltero and only had a 6:00 PM edition. Later that year, the station premiered a 9:00 PM edition anchored by the same 6:00 PM team.
In 2002, a new news format was created with a local newscast (TUTV Informa) and an international newscast (TUTV Internacional); the newscasts were anchored by Gloria Soltero and David Reyes. TUTV also produced a weekly in-depth newscast on Sundays, called TuTV Analiza.
This year, TUTV's programming received various awards. Locally, En Todas was awarded by the American Heart Association. Five productions received Emmy Award nominations and one of TUTV's producers received an Emmy in the Entertainment Program category.
In 2009, when TUTV was rebranded as "Puerto Rico TV", its news department was relaunched as Noticias 24/7; around this time, WIPR introduced a 24-hour news channel of the same name on channel 6.5 and 3.5.
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