A non-commercial educational station ( NCE station ) is a radio station or television station that does not accept on-air advertisements ( TV ads or radio ads ), as defined in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and was originally intended to offer educational programming as part, or whole, of its programming. NCE stations do not pay broadcast license fees for their non-profit uses of the radio spectrum . Stations which are almost always operated as NCE include public broadcasting , community radio , and college radio , as well as many religious broadcasting stations. Nearly all non-commercial radio stations derive their support from listener support, grants and endowments, such as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) that distributes supporting funds provided by Congress to support public radio.
28-754: WQED may refer to: WQED (TV) , a television station (channel 13 virtual 4 digital) licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States WQED-FM , a radio station (89.3 FM) licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States The stations' parent company, WQED Multimedia , or their production facility at 4802 Fifth Avenue in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood. See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "wqed" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles beginning with WQED All pages with titles containing WQED KQED (disambiguation) QED (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
56-492: A charitable organization or public college . Money can be accepted if there is no on-air mention of the sponsor. NCE stations may also not mention prices or qualities of commercial products or services in any situation which would be construed as promoting or endorsing any company, regardless of whether it sponsors the station. Underwriting spots are brief and to-the-point, as they must not be disruptive to programming. Additionally, underwriting spots on public TV are at
84-553: A UHF island. Westinghouse presented a compromise to the FCC, offering to share its proposed KDKA-TV with WQED on channel 13. Hazard found this unacceptable, and asked Westinghouse CEO Gwilym Price if he should give up his quest for public television. Price said that Hazard should keep fighting, promising Westinghouse support for WQED. Westinghouse donated the tower it had purchased for the channel 13 license, enabling WQED to begin operations on April 1, 1954. The station's call letters are from
112-535: A few examples of this); most of those stations now broadcast as affiliates of commercially owned networks. This is also rare in Mexico, though XEIMT-TV , a cultural channel in Mexico City, and XEWH-TV , the main station of the state network of Sonora, operate under commercial concessions and not permits. A number of new low power FM ( LPFM ) NCE stations operating in the non-reserved part of the spectrum have been licensed by
140-516: A for-profit arm to generate revenue for channel 13. In November 2010, WQED agreed to sell WQEX to Ion Media Networks for $ 3 million. The sale was completed (after FCC approval) on May 2, 2011, when the station's call sign changed from WQEX to WINP-TV . WQED received $ 9.9 million in a 2017 spectrum auction , and would use the proceeds to pay down debt the station has carried since the 1990s. The Fred Rogers Studio, where Fred Rogers recorded his iconic television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood ,
168-470: A post-production office and editing facility in Los Angeles. Known as QED/West, the satellite edited much of WQED's national programming. During the early 1990s, WQED faltered, as did many other PBS stations across the country, as the rapidly-changing media landscape shifted. The downturn was exacerbated by a scandal in which top executives were discovered to have been augmenting their income without informing
196-978: A process that would ensure that non-commercial applicants would have a chance against those who could afford to bid at spectrum auctions . Two such stations are WGPB FM in Rome, Georgia and WNGH-FM in Chatsworth, Georgia , former commercial stations purchased in 2007 and 2008 and operated by Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB), serving the mountains northwest of Atlanta which previously had no GPB radio service. In addition, there were at least four stations with commercial licenses that formerly operated as PBS member stations ( WNYC-TV in New York City , WMHX in Albany, New York , KAUT-TV in Oklahoma City , and KCPQ-TV in Seattle are
224-555: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WQED (TV) WQED (channel 13) is a PBS member television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , United States. Owned by WQED Multimedia , it is sister to public radio station WQED-FM (89.3). The two outlets share studios on Fifth Avenue near the Carnegie Mellon University campus and transmitter facilities near
252-544: Is featured in the film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood with Tom Hanks playing Rogers. The cast and crew shot at the WQED headquarters throughout October 2018. The station's signal is multiplexed : On January 5, 2009, WQED launched Create on 13.2, replacing the standard-definition simulcast of WQED's main channel. WQED shut down its analog signal on VHF channel 13 on June 12, 2009, when full-power television stations in
280-637: The FCC repack , WQED relocated from channel 13 to channel 4. Non-commercial educational On the FM broadcast band , the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reserved the lowest 20 channels, 201~220 (88.1~91.9 MHz ) for NCE stations only. This is known as the reserved band , sometimes known by the term "left of the dial" (taken from the Replacements' song of the same name ), which refers to
308-431: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) putting an indefinite freeze on new TV station licenses (due to the number of applications on file), the commission granted Lawrence a license if he could raise money to equip and operate the station. Lawrence, a friend of President Harry S. Truman , recruited Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company attorney Leland Hazard to help get the station off the ground. Its greatest obstacle
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#1732880495704336-541: The Latin phrase quod erat demonstrandum ("what was demonstrated"), commonly used in mathematics . Westinghouse soon had its Pittsburgh TV station. Knowing that DuMont needed WDTV's cash flow to get its programming cleared in larger markets and a short-term cash infusion after DuMont investor Paramount Pictures vetoed a merger between DuMont and ABC , Westinghouse offered DuMont $ 10 million for WDTV in January 1955. It changed
364-485: The college and other non-commercial stations that broadcast from those frequencies. It also includes channel 200 (87.9 MHz), but only for class D NCE stations unable to find another frequency; the frequency has been unused for its intended purpose in the United States since KSFH shut down in 2021. Many of the reserved-band channels are used by stations bordering the United States, such as with broadcasting in
392-469: The FCC since the Local Community Radio Act was enacted in 2010. The FCC defines several different activities as being commercial in nature. Sponsorship of NCE stations is called underwriting , and stations may make announcements of these grants on-air. However, they may not accept money for such mentions, only goods and services , unless the sponsor itself is a non-profit , such as
420-624: The San Diego/Tijuana metropolitan area . Additionally, neither the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission nor Mexico's Federal Telecommunications Institute have such a reserved band. (In Mexico, individual stations belonging to state and federal governments, educational institutions, and non-profit groups are licensed under permits or permisos , which are non-commercial, non-profit licenses that do not permit advertising. Canada, in practice, generally keeps most of
448-408: The U.S. NCE band as noncommercial or with limited advertising based on each individual licence, but there are exceptions, such as CIXL , a fully commercial station that operates on 91.7.) NCE stations may also operate on a non-reserved channel. However this was rare in the United States due to the high cost of buying a commercial broadcasting station, and because for years the FCC failed to maintain
476-457: The United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts by federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 38 to VHF channel 13. WQED was the only full-power station in the Pittsburgh market to move its digital signal back to its analog-era channel. Former sister station WINP-TV took over WQED's former digital channel 38, broadcasting on virtual channel 16.1. On June 27, 2019, at 8 a.m. during
504-620: The WENS-TV tower was repaired. WQED acquired the station and renamed it WQEX in 1959, using the construction permit it had acquired for channel 22 to launch WQEX on channel 16. The Commercial Radio Institute acquired the WENS-TV permit for channel 22, launching WPTT (now WPNT ) in 1978. The station was briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network during the late 1950s, sharing the affiliation with KDKA-TV, WTAE-TV , and WIIC-TV (now WPXI ). From sign-on until its replacement by PBS in 1970, WQED
532-729: The beginning or end of the TV show rather than in the middle, as they have increasingly become on commercial stations. Retransmission consent has often been chosen over must-carry by the major commercial television networks. Under the present rules, a new agreement is negotiated every three years, and stations must choose must-carry or retransmission consent for each cable system they wish their signal to be carried on. Non-commercial stations (such as local PBS stations) may not seek retransmission consent and may only invoke must-carry status. Like commercial stations, NCE stations are allowed to lease subcarriers in exchange for money , essentially making
560-463: The board of directors. The period was chronicled in Jerold Starr 's 2000 book, Air Wars: The Fight to Reclaim Public Broadcasting . Problems continued with a failed attempt to sell WQED's auxiliary station, WQEX, in 1999. In 2002, WQEX's non-commercial educational status was removed; the station moved to a shopping format, first with America's Store and later with ShopNBC ; that in effect made WQEX
588-457: The campus of the University of Pittsburgh , both in the city's Oakland section. Established on April 1, 1954, WQED was the first community-sponsored television station in the U.S. and the country's fifth public television station. It was the first station to telecast classes to elementary school classrooms when Pittsburgh launched its Metropolitan School Service in 1955. The station has been
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#1732880495704616-597: The flagship for the shows Mister Rogers' Neighborhood , Once Upon A Classic , Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (a co-production with Boston 's WGBH-TV ; filmed in New York City ), and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (whose live-action scenes are filmed in Pittsburgh). A public television station was the brainchild of Pittsburgh mayor David L. Lawrence , who wanted 12 percent of U.S. TV stations licensed for non-commercial educational use. Despite
644-458: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about radio and/or television stations with the same/similar call signs or branding. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WQED&oldid=1142418638 " Category : Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
672-504: The station a common carrier . This may be for a commercial audio , video , or data service, or a non-commercial one like a radio reading service for the blind . NCE stations broadcasting in digital TV or HD Radio may lease part of their bandwidth (actually bitrate ) in a similar manner, however, the commercial use is limited. The main program must always be non-commercial, and must not have its quality diminished excessively by increased lossy compression done in order to fit
700-486: The station's call sign to KDKA-TV , making it a sister station of KDKA radio. DuMont, unable to obtain clearance in larger markets, was out of business by the end of 1956. Although KDKA-TV is now owned by Westinghouse successor Paramount Global , the station retains a close relationship with WQED. WQED briefly shared channel 13 with WENS-TV in 1955, after a storm damaged the WENS-TV tower in Reserve Township , until
728-552: Was Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Corporation , owners of radio station KDKA . Westinghouse wanted a TV station in the city to compete with the DuMont - owned-and-operated WDTV (which had a de facto monopoly in the nation's sixth-largest television market), and was impatient with the freeze on new licenses. Although the corporation launched WBZ-TV in Boston in 1948 and purchased Philadelphia 's WPTZ-TV (now KYW-TV ) in 1952, it
756-597: Was a National Educational Television member station. During its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, WQED supplied programming to PBS. For 15 years, WQED produced the National Geographic specials for the National Geographic Society . The programs won several Emmy and other awards, including Peabody Awards. Actor Michael Keaton , who worked behind the scenes on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood , went on to international fame. During its heyday, WQED supported
784-475: Was unable to secure a TV-station license in its home market. When the freeze was lifted in 1952, the FCC granted station licenses to smaller cities (such as Steubenville and Youngstown, Ohio ; Wheeling and Clarksburg, West Virginia , and Johnstown , Altoona and Erie, Pennsylvania ) before granting more licenses in Pittsburgh. All those cities shared the VHF band with Pittsburgh, and only Youngstown would end up as
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