WPTD
WPTD (
ThinkTV 16) is the
PBS member station serving
Dayton, Ohio. It broadcasts in analog on channel 16 and digitally on channel 58, and is relayed by W17AA in
Celina, Ohio and W63AH in
Maplewood, Ohio. It is currently operated by Greater Dayton Public Television, which also operates WPTD's sister station,
WPTO (
ThinkTV 14) in
Oxford, which reaches
Cincinnati. Both channels are available on
Time Warner Cable in Dayton, though some systems may offer only one channel or the other, depending on where they are in southwestern Ohio.
WPTD began in 1972 as
WOET-TV operated by the
Ohio Educational Broadcasting Network Commission (OEB). Prior to that, Channel 16 was occupied by an independent commercial station,
WKTR-TV owned by Kitty Hawk Television Corporation licensed to Kettering,Ohio when it first signed on in April of 1967 before it abruptly went silent in 1970. It returned to the air briefly in 1971 but went dark again that same year. WPTD's sister station,
WPTO, began in 1959 as
WMUB-TV, which was operated by
Miami University.
The stations joined forces in 1975 under the banner of University Regional Broadcasting, a consortium of Miami,
Wright State and
Central State universities. WMUB-TV was the primary station for a year until 1976, when WOET became the primary station. In 1977, the stations were transferred to the community-owned Greater Dayton Public Television and received their current calls. The corporate name became the Think
TV Network in 1998, though the legal name remained Greater Dayton Public Television.
The digital signals of WPTD and WPTO are both
multiplexed:
WPTD-DT
Digital channels| Channel | Name! Programming |
|---|
| 16.1 / 58.1 | ThinkTV 16 | Regular WPTD programming |
| 16.2 / 58.2 | ThinkTV Again | Repeat broadcasts of WPTD primetime shows |
| 16.3 / 58.3 | ThinkTV Create | Create |
| 16.4 / 58.4 | ThinkTV Ohio | Ohio-specific programming, including The Ohio Channel |
| 16.5 / 58.5 | ThinkTV 16 HD | High-definition programming |
WPTO-DT
Digital channels| Channel | Name! Programming |
|---|
| 14.1 / 28.1 | ThinkTV 14 | Regular WPTO programming |
| 14.2 / 28.2 | ThinkTV Prime | Repeat broadcasts of WPTO primetime shows |
| 14.3 / 28.3 | ThinkTV Learn | PBS Kids programming and college telecourses |
| 14.4 / 28.4 | ThinkTV World | World news and international programming |
| 14.5 / 28.5 | ThinkTV 14 HD | High-definition programming |
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