Call signs are frequently still used by North American broadcast stations , in addition to amateur radio and other international radio stations that continue to identify by call signs worldwide. Each country has a different set of patterns for its own call signs. Call signs are allocated to ham radio stations in Barbados , Canada , Mexico and the United States .
34-530: WPSU may refer to: WPSU-TV , a PBS member television broadcast station in State College, Pennsylvania (channel 3, DTV 15) WPSU (FM) , an NPR member FM radio station in State College, Pennsylvania (91.5 MHz) Women's Social and Political Union , a militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, 1903–17 Topics referred to by
68-477: A Monday-to-Friday, 7–11 p.m. schedule. Saturday and Sunday programming was not added until nearly two years later. Once the microwave link that carried the broadcast signal to Wagner was completed, WPSX-TV began moving its broadcast and studio operations to its new facility. On December 10, 1965, engineering, production, and programming staff were all based at the Wagner studios for the first time and remained there until
102-462: A former journalism instructor and radio-television newsman, said in a 1965 Altoona Mirror interview, "Television can combine all the channels of communication—sight, sound, and motion—to give the greatest impact on the student". During the first WPSX-TV broadcast school year, the classroom TV service reached approximately 250,000 students in 22 counties. Evening programs of culture, public affairs , and adult education were added on June 7, 1965, in
136-686: A new digital broadcast facility was dedicated on September 8, 2005, as the Outreach Building in Innovation Park. WPSX-TV drew upon Penn State's faculty and staff to develop original programming for the new evening lineup. Art History 10 , which was hosted by assistant professor of art history Carl Barnes and covered painting, architecture, and sculpture, was the first University credit course to be produced for broadcast in late 1965. Public affairs programs covered national, state, and University issues. In 1969, P. J. O'Connell produced The Year Behind,
170-737: A number of conventions. All call signs begin with a prefix assigned by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). For example, the United States has been assigned the following prefixes: AAA – ALZ , K , N , W . For a complete list, see international call sign allocations . Pertaining to their status as former or current colonies, all of the British West Indies islands shared the VS , ZB – ZJ , and ZN – ZO prefixes. The current, largely post-independence, allocation list
204-513: A suffix according to the band in which they broadcast, these suffixes are: "-AM", "-OC" (shortwave or Onda Corta ), "-FM" and "-TDT" (Terrestrial Digital Television). The "-OL" ( longwave or Onda Larga ) and "-TV" suffixes are currently phased out as those bands are no longer used. Some FM and television stations have call signs beginning with "XE", usually reserved for AM radio stations. Most of these "XE" cases in FM and television stations were solicited by
238-495: Is also XEZ-TV. Digital subchannels are not assigned a distinctive call sign; they keep the call sign of the station. The technical guidelines for digital television stations stipulate the use of PSIP short names matching the parent station (e.g. XHTDMX 2, XHTDMX3). Amateur radio stations in Mexico use "XE1" for the central region, "XE2" for the northern region, and "XE3" for the southern region. "XF" prefixes indicate islands. "XF4"
272-544: Is an innovator of distributed transmission of digital television signals; it has been involved with testing new ways to distribute these signals to difficult reception areas and received an experimental permit from the FCC in 2003. Initial tests showed that while a large UHF channel 15 transmitter at the location of WPSU's original low-VHF broadcast tower would encounter localized problems with terrain shielding that interfere with UHF reception in State College, and that relocation of
306-569: Is as follows: Cuba uses the prefixes CL – CM , CO , and T4 , with district numbers from 0 to 9 for amateur operations. The Dominican Republic uses the prefixes HI – HJ . All of the French possessions share the prefix F . Further divisions that are used by amateur stations are: Haiti has been assigned the call sign prefixes HH and 4V . The Kingdom of the Netherlands use the PA – PI prefixes, while
340-726: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WPSU-TV WPSU-TV (channel 3) is a PBS member television station licensed to Clearfield, Pennsylvania , United States, serving West-Central Pennsylvania . Owned by the Pennsylvania State University as part of Penn State Public Media, it is sister to NPR member WPSU (91.5 FM) and student radio station WKPS ("The Lion 90.7 FM"). The three stations share studios at Innovation Park on Penn State's University Park campus in State College . WPSU-TV's primary transmitter
374-543: Is located seven miles (11 km) north of Clearfield in Lawrence Township , with a secondary transmitter in Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania . Penn State has a long history of using new media to extend access to education. It was the first American institution of higher education to offer agricultural correspondence courses in 1892. When radio became popular in the 1920s, the institution tried broadcasting courses and
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#1732850997710408-550: Is usually used for the Revillagigedo Islands and nearby islets. Special call signs for contests or celebrations are occasionally issued, often in the 4A and 6D series, although these will follow the usual district numbering system (4A3 for the south, etc.). The earliest identification, used in the 1910s and into the early 1920s, was arbitrary. The U.S. government began requiring stations to use three-letter call signs around 1912, but they could be chosen at random. This system
442-570: The Netherlands Antilles use the PJ prefix. Aruba has been assigned P4 by the ITU . The island nation of Trinidad and Tobago use the 9Y – 9Z prefixes. Canadian broadcast stations are assigned a three-, four-, or five-letter base call sign (not including the "-FM", "-TV" or "-DT" suffix) beginning with CB , CF , CH , CI , CJ , CK , VF , or VO . The "CB" series calls are assigned to Chile by
476-450: The digital switchover . Television stations are required to identify every 30 minutes; there has been no equivalent requirement in radio since 2014. Television rebroadcasters are assigned the call signs of the station they are licensed to retransmit; for instance, XEZ-TDT , located on Cerro El Zamorano in Querétaro , has a repeater on Cerro Culiacán serving Celaya , Guanajuato , which
510-907: The Appalachian chain. WPSX-TV set up its first national satellite conference from Penn State in 1980 for the faculty in Nuclear Engineering, which extended access to education for adult, part-time learners. WPSX-TV and a group of cable operators also helped set up PENNARAMA, a 24-hour channel that offered credit courses and other educational programs. Meanwhile, the radio station WDFM was renamed WPSU-FM in August 1984. It broadcast student programming, classical music, and news. In 1986, it started to air NPR programs such as All Things Considered (June 1986) and Morning Edition (fall 1987). In 1994, WPSU-FM joined WPSX-TV to become Penn State Public Broadcasting. WPSX-TV began 24-hour broadcast schedules in 1998. With
544-581: The ITU, but Canada makes de facto use of this series anyway for stations belonging to, but not exclusively broadcasting programs from, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Several other prefixes, including CG , CY - CZ , VA - VE , VG , and the XJ - XO range, are available, but are not used in broadcasting. Conventional radio and television stations almost exclusively use "C" call signs; with
578-498: The Outreach Building in Innovation Park, State College. The station's signal is multiplexed : WPSU-TV shut down its analog signal on VHF channel 3 on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under a federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 15, using virtual channel 3. WPSU-TV
612-478: The United States begin with either K or W , with "K" usually west of the Mississippi River and "W" usually east of it. Initial letters AA through AL , as well as N , are internationally allocated to the United States but are not used for broadcast stations. In the United States, broadcast stations have call signs of three to seven characters in length, including suffixes for certain types of service, but
646-675: The Year Ahead , reporting on the events that led to the student sit-in protest on Old Main Lawn. O'Connell and co-producer Kimberlie Kranich went on the create the Rural American Documentary Project (later renamed Pennsylvania Parade ) with more than 150 titles that captured the life, joys, and struggles of rural Pennsylvanians, including Notes on an Appalachia County: Visiting with Darlene , Notes on an American Business , and Profiles of Rural Religion: Go and I'll Be With You . In
680-476: The advent of digital television broadcasting , WPSX-TV became an innovator of distributed transmission of digital television signals. In 2003, experiments conducted by WPSX-TV helped develop FCC standards for implementation of the distributed transmission systems, and its digital channel was used to experiment with the format. On October 15, 2005, WPSX-TV was re-called as WPSU-TV. The following summer, both WPSU-TV and WPSU-FM began broadcasting from new facilities at
714-460: The concessionaires themselves so the stations would have the same call sign as an existing AM station (as it is the case of XEW-AM , XEW-TV and XEW-FM , all founded and owned by the Azcárraga family ), while others are for disambiguation (like XHTV-TV and XETV-TV or XEIMT-TV and XHIMT-TV ). All TV stations originally assigned with the "-TV" suffix, had been given the "-TDT" suffix as they made
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#1732850997710748-589: The creation of PBS. After Congress passed the Educational Facilities Act on May 1, 1962, which provided federal funding for the construction of educational television stations, Penn State was granted a transmitter construction permit in September 1964 and became the first educational television station in Pennsylvania to be licensed to a university, and the 101st such station in the U.S. Construction of
782-497: The exception of a few commercial radio stations in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador which existed prior to the admission of Newfoundland as a province in 1949, the "V" calls are restricted to specialized uses such as amateur radio . Mexican broadcast stations are assigned call signs beginning with "XE" (for mediumwave and shortwave stations) or "XH" (for FM radio and television stations ), followed by one and up to five letters and
816-621: The implementation of distributed transmission systems: These standards were later used by other broadcasters, such as New York City's Metropolitan Television Alliance , as a basis of tests in 2007. This testing was crucial to other U.S. television stations and the FCC for developing guidelines pertaining to this type of broadcasting. Call signs in North America Many countries have specific conventions for classifying call signs by transmitter characteristics and location. The call sign format for radio and television call signs follows
850-464: The main transmitter would have interfered with the station's ability to serve the other two communities, the addition of a 50 kW , precisely-synchronized digital transmitter operating in State College itself on the same frequency as the main UHF 15 signal could provide a viable improvement to digital reception. This work was the basis for a pair of ATSC standards issued in 2004 to provide design guidance for
884-478: The midst of this growth, the public television movement gained traction, which signified the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in 1967 and two years later PBS to manage the programming of public television national interconnections. In the 1970s, the station joined a statewide community service project, broadcasting programs that focused on community issues and organizing community meetings in
918-401: The minimum length for new stations is four characters, and seven-character call signs result only from rare combinations of suffixes. The rules governing call signs for stations in the United States are set out in the FCC rules, 47 C.F.R. chapter I. Specific rules for each particular service are set out in the part of the rules dealing with that service. A general overview of call sign formats
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986-474: The tower and transmitter site began on Penfield Mountain, seven miles (11 km) north of Clearfield. The 539-foot (164 m) tower was built on Rattlesnake Mountain to comply with the FCC "legal triangle" that required 170 miles (274 km) to separate co-channels. Because the Wagner Annex studio was not yet completed, video playback machines, film and slide chains, and audio tape equipment were installed at
1020-464: The transmitter site in conjunction with a "mobile recording unit". The "X" in the original call sign WPSX-TV denoted the station's role as part of Penn State's Continuing Education program, also known as the Penn State Extension. "The establishment of the station," said Dr. Eric Walker, then-president of the university, "will enable Penn State to expand its educational services". WPSX-TV
1054-629: The viewing area. Children's shows were developed with the College of Education. A popular weekly current affairs program What's in the News went national. The shift of PBS stations to satellite communication brought several innovations to WPSX-TV. In 1978, WPSX-TV joined the Appalachian Educational Satellite Project (AESP) which delivered teacher education courses, nursing courses, and other educational resources to isolated communities in
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1088-659: Was led by Marlow Froke, director of the Division of Broadcasting at Penn State, as a unit of Continuing Education. On March 1, 1965, under his leadership in cooperation with the newly-formed Allegheny Educational Broadcast Council (AEBC) advisory board, WPSX-TV broadcast to 124 elementary and secondary schools across Pennsylvania to supplement the curriculum and provide in-service training for teachers. The first day's lineup included Saludos Amigos , Primary Concepts in Math , Focus on Fitness , and 12 other programs between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Froke,
1122-769: Was replaced by the basic form of the current system in the early 1920s. Examples of pre-1920 stations include 8XK in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , which became KDKA in November 1920, and Charles Herrold 's series of identifiers from 1909 in San Jose, California : first "This is the Herrold Station" or "San Jose calling", then the call signs FN, SJN, 6XF, and 6XE, then, with the advent of modern call signs, KQW in December 1921, and eventually KCBS from 1949 onward. All broadcast call signs in
1156-400: Was the first U.S. university to experiment with closed-circuit television delivery in the 1940s. Penn State hosted a conference on April 20, 1952, at Nittany Lion Inn where the federal government announced its decision to set aside bandwidth to support non-commercial educational television stations. This conference led to the creation of national educational television broadcasting and later to
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