Detroit PBS (WTVS) is Michigan's largest and only community-licensed public television station, owned by Detroit Public Media in Wixom, with 90.9 WRCJ classical and jazz radio and more than 2 million viewers a week across southeast Michigan.
Detroit PBS is the PBS member station for Detroit and southeast Michigan, owned by Detroit Public Media, the community nonprofit formerly known as the Detroit Educational Television Foundation. WTVS first signed on October 3, 1955 as the 17th educational station in the country; the organization took the Detroit Public Media name and rebranded the station from Detroit Public TV to Detroit PBS in 2024. It describes itself as Michigan's largest and most-watched public television station and the state's only community-licensed station, operating independently of any educational institution or government entity and funded by the community it serves.
More than 2 million people a week watch its broadcast channels, and nearly 200,000 listen to 90.9 WRCJ, the classical and jazz radio station it operates in partnership with the Stanley and Judith Frankel Family Foundation. Local productions include One Detroit, American Black Journal and Detroit Performs, and the station co-founded the Michigan Learning Channel in 2021 with WKAR. Its digital properties reach more than half a million unique visitors a month through its website, YouTube channels and social media.
Detroit PBS operates from the Riley Broadcast Center in Wixom and the Fred and Barbara Erb Public Media Campus in Detroit. Its stated core values are excellence, innovation, trust, diversity, engagement and financial sustainability. It hires in content and production, marketing, membership and development, education, engineering and technical operations, and offers internships; openings are posted on its Careers page with applications through an online portal.
