Your Two-Nation Station!

  Contributions are always welcome by mail or telephone:
WPBS-TV, 1056 Arsenal Street - Watertown, NY 13601
(315) 782-3142 ext. 323

In Canada:
P.O. Box 45, Gananoque, Ont. K7G2T6

WPBS/WNPI-TV is licensed as St. Lawrence Valley Educational Television Council, Inc. and was founded in 1958 as a non-profit educational corporation established under an absolute Charter from the NYS Board of Regents.

For the first 13 years, the Council produced educational programs that were broadcast by WWNY-TV, a local commercial station. In August 1971, WNPE/WNPI-TV began operation as a public television station. Two transmitters were installed which serve a broadcast area throughout Northern New York and Eastern Ontario. In 1978, the staff and equipment outgrew their facilities on Champion Hill and moved to the existing location on Arsenal Street in Watertown, New York. In September 1998, the FCC granted permission for WNPE to change its call letters to WPBS-TV.

Today, WPBS-TV employs the equivalent of 26 full-time employees. WPBS-TV is the producer of nationally syndicated programs and is widely recognized for it's children's programming, which is commercial-free, educational and entertaining.

As part of a Ready To Learn grant program, WPBS-TV conducts workshops and distributes booklets to childcare providers and parental groups and broadcasts continuing education programming and college telecourses through established relationships with the Jefferson County BOCES and Jefferson Community College respectively.

WPBS-TV produces Whiz Quiz, a high school academic quiz programming featuring competitors from among 32 high schools, and in 2001 Whiz Quiz Canada was added for international flavor.

A producer of national programs for PBS stations, WPBS has delighted viewers with Rod & Reel, Rod & Reel Streamside, Cabin Country, From a Country Garden, The Artist's World,   Camp Willie, Discovering Pets, Fly Fishing Destinations, The Gardener, and Classical Stretch.

For nearly one-half century, WPBS-TV has been providing excellence in public television to you, our viewers, with programs of the highest quality - in that they are educational, entertaining, and informational. A video presentation of the station's history is available for purchase.

FCC RELEASES NEW EDITION OF
“THE PUBLIC AND BROADCASTING”

A brief overview of the FCC’s regulation of broadcast radio and television licensees, describing how the FCC authorizes broadcast stations, the various rules relating to broadcast programming and operations with which stations must comply, and the essential obligation of licensees that their stations serve their local communities.
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St. Lawrence Valley Educational Television Council, Inc.
WPBS-TV
Board of Trustees
Fiscal Year 2007-2008


Officers
Chair – Daniel Osborne
Vice Chair – Jack Boak
Treasurer – Paul D.M. Ward
Secretary – Stephen R. Moncrief, Jr.
President & General Manager – Thomas F. Hanley

Board Members
Robert N. Wells, Jr.
Terrence Roche
Russell Wilcox
Sister Ellen Rose Coughlin, SSJ
Jacquelyn A. Schell
Carole A. McCoy
Diane Monroe
Walter S. Becker
John F. Schwaller
Dennis Mastascusa
Ellen E. O’Connor
Timothy Sheridan
Rick Walker

Board Meeting Schedules:
In compliance with Section 396(k) of the Communications Act, WPBS-TV
maintains an open meeting policy. The public is welcome at all meetings.

Schedule of Meetings 2006-2007

December 14, 2007 at 1:00
WPBS-TV Studios, 1056 Arsenal St. Watertown.



March 28, 2008 at 1:00 – location to be determined

June 27, 2008 at 1:00 – location to be determined


Advance notice will be given in the public meeting notice section
of the Watertown Daily Times and on-line.