WHYY-TV

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Nancy Karibjanian on WHYY Delaware Tonight in 2006.

WHYY-DT 12.3 ID from 2006.

WHYY-TV is the PBS television member station broadcasting on channel 12 (DTV 55) and serves the Delaware Valley area, including Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Its offices are located in Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware, where the station is officially licensed. Both the TV and FM transmitters are located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia. WHYY also operates WDPB-TV in Seaford, Delaware, which transmits the programs shown on WHYY to southern Delaware. WDPB's transmitter is located in Seaford, and broadcasts on analog channel 64, digital 44.

From 1986 to 1992, WHYY's studios, which at the time were housed in the former Living History Center, was the home of Double Dare, and Finders Keepers, two Nickelodeon game shows, as well as the syndicated Bill Cosby hosted version of You Bet Your Life. Prior to that, the station, at 46th and Market Streets in Philadelphia, was the home of American Bandstand.

The station was first on channel 35 (now WYBE) between 1957 and 1963. On September 12, 1963, WHYY moved to channel 12, though channel 35 remained on the air as its secondary channel, WUHY, which closed in the late-1960s.

WHYY-TV presents four regular TV series for PBS stations: PBS's Hometime, and the syndicated Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen, Christina Cooks and Flavors of America with Chef Jim Coleman with MoneyTrack beginning in April 2005. These shows are produced by independent companies for WHYY. The station has also developed several TV specials, such as The Great Comet Crash and Trading Women.

WHYY-TV only produces four original programs: the local news show Delaware Tonight, broadcast from its Wilmington studios; Radio Times on TV, a weekly version of its daily talk show with host Marty Moss-Coane; Experience shorts, about Philadelphia's cultural community; and Flicks, a three-minute movie review by film critic Patrick Stoner. The shorter version of Flicks, Quick Pics, is also shown on many PBS stations around the country. WHYY was also one of the first PBS affiliates to air Doctor Who.

See also

External links

• [WHYY website]
• [WHYY on PBS]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for WHYY]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for WDPB]
• [Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia]