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WpbsWPBS is a PBS affiliated station, located in Watertown, New York, serving northern New York and eastern Ontario. Despite its name, it is not a flagship station (see below), as it is located in a relatively small market (at least on the United States side). Until the late 1990s, the station was called WNPE. The reason for the seemingly flagship name is simple. PBS is not like the commercial networks - each individual station is owned by local non-profit groups and enjoys a greater deal of autonomy in programming and scheduling. Many stations could easily be labelled "flagships" - WGBH in Boston is the largest producer of PBS programming with many other major contributors including ETP-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee, WNET in NYC, WETA in Washington, DC, KQED in San Francisco and KCET in Los Angeles. So where does WPBS fit in? WPBS-TV boasts availability to 2.2 million viewers, largely because the signal from its twin towers reaches far enough to serve the Ottawa region in Canada, a market of over 1.5 million people widely considered to be even more lucrative than WPBS's home DMA in New York. One WPBS transmitter is located in Copenhagen, the other near Potsdam. WPBS-TV locally-produced series include: - The Gardener, produced in conjunction with National Capital Commission experts.
- Bill Saiff's Rod & Reel
- Cabin Country
- From A Country Garden
- The Artists' World
- Streamside
- Classical Stretch
- Whiz Quiz USA
- Whiz Quiz Canada
Other individual WPBS-TV videos include: - "The Remington Legacy"
- "Lighthouses Of The Seaway Trail"
- "Lumberjack Sky Pilot"
- "Boldt Castle: A Tribute To Love"
- "The 1000 Islands"
- "Ottawa: Capital Insights"
- "Tour of Singer Castle"
- "Winterlude at 25"
- "WPBS-TV's 40th Anniversary Video"
WPBS-TV books include: - "From a Country Garden Book"
- "Vegetables From A Country Garden"
- "Bill Saiff's Rod & Reel Cookbook"
- "No Price Too High"
Station Info Call letters: - WPBS-TV 16 - Watertown Public Broadcasting Service (full-power, serving Kingston/Watertown and the St. Lawrence Valley region - established as WNPE in 1971)
- WNPI-TV 18 - Watertown/Norwood Public Instruction (full-power serving Potsdam and most of eastern Ontario, including Ottawa)
- Both stations are also available in digital low-power format.
WPBS, 1056 Arsenal Street, Watertown, NY 13601-2210 - Phone: +1-315-782-3142
- Fax: +1-315-782-2491
Owner: St. Lawrence Valley Educational Television Council, Inc. (a not-for-profit community organization) WPBS and radio There are two stations using similar callsigns on US broadcast radio; neither is affiliated with WPBS-TV, NPR or the PBS television network. External links
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