WBGU-TV

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WBGU-TV is a PBS member station, owned and operated by Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Unlike its companion radio station, WBGU-FM, WBGU-TV is not primarily operated by students at the university.

The station was founded in 1964 and currently operates at the Tucker Center for Telecommunications on the campus of Bowling Green State University. (While officially part of the BGSU campus, the Tucker Center is located two blocks south of Wooster Street, which marks much of the southern boundary of the campus.) Each weekday during the academic term of public schools in the Great Black Swamp region, WBGU-TV broadcasts six hours of educational programming provided (and, in some cases, created) by the Northwest Ohio Educational Technology Foundation. The NWOET is operated at the Tucker Center, but is a non-profit state agency separate from the university.

History

On February 10, 1964, WBGU-TV signed on the air for the first time, initially on channel 70, then later moving to channel 57 in 1966, before moving to channel 27 in 1984. The station first broadcasted from a small studio located in the university's South Hall. After the Moore Musical Arts Center was built in 1979, the university's radio stations and telecommunications department (then the department of radio, television, and film) moved to West Hall, which formerly housed the university's college of music. Sometime after that, WBGU-TV moved to a new building located at 245 Troup Avenue in Bowling Green. The building was renamed the Tucker Center on May 6, 1994.

During the 1970s and early-1980s, WBGU had a low-powered repeater in Fort Wayne, Indiana on channel 39 (later to change over to Indianapolis' WFYI), which became full-powered WFWA in 1985.

Today, WBGU-TV broadcasts to nineteen counties in Northwest and West Central Ohio including the markets of Toledo and Lima; depending on antenna used, WBGU's signal could be tuned in as far west as Fort Wayne and as far north as southwestern Washtenaw County, Michigan.

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Broadcast television in the Toledo and Findlay, Ohio market [(Nielsen DMA #70)]
W09CG 9 (TBN) - WTOL 11 (CBS) - WTVG 13 (ABC) - W21BF 21 (IND) - WFND 22 (A1/Daystar) - WNWO 24 (NBC) (The Tube on DT2) - WDFM 26 (IND) - WBGU 27 (PBS) - WGTE 30 (PBS) - WBTL 34 (AS) - WUPW 36 (Fox) - W38DH 38 (MTV2) - WLMB 40 (FamilyNet) - WNGT 48 (UPN) - WGGN 52 (TBN)
Local cable television channels
WT05 (The WB/The CW) - CBET 9 (CBC, Windsor)
See also: Broadcast television stations in the , , , , , and Markets

Broadcast television in the Lima, Ohio market [(Nielsen DMA #185)]'''
WLQP-LP 18 (UPN/ABC, eff. 9/2006) - WOHL-CA 25 (FOX/''MNTV sec., eff. 9/2006) - WBGU 27 (PBS) - WLIO 35 (NBC/CW on DT2, eff. 9/2006) - WLMO-LP 38 (CBS) - WTLW 44 (i)
Local Cable Television Channels
WBOH 3 (The WB/The CW)
Out-of-market Broadcast television available on cable:
WHIO 7 (CBS, Dayton) - WBNS 10 (CBS, Columbus) - WTVG 13 (ABC, Toledo)
See also: Broadcast television stations in the , , , , and Markets

PBS Member Stations in the state of Ohio
WPTD 16 / WPTO 14 () - WOUB 20 / WOUC 44 () - WVIZ 25 () - WBGU 27 () - WGTE 30 () - WOSU 34 / WPBO 42 ( / ) - WNEO 45 / WEAO 49 ( / ) - WCET 48 ()
See also: , , , , , and stations in Ohio

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