PBS Fort Wayne

PBS Fort Wayne (WFWA, channel 39) is the public television station for northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio, owned by the nonprofit Fort Wayne Public Television, Inc. and based at the Kachmann Teleplex on the Purdue University Fort Wayne campus.

PBS Fort Wayne is the public television station for Fort Wayne and northeast Indiana. It broadcasts as WFWA on channel 39, is a member station of PBS, and is owned and operated by Fort Wayne Public Television, Inc., a nonprofit organization. The station describes itself as the only public television station in northeast Indiana and the region's only locally owned and operated full-power television station, serving more than 800,000 people in northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio.

Public television on channel 39 in Fort Wayne dates to 1975, when a low-power translator of Bowling Green's WBGU-TV signed on. Fort Wayne Public Television applied for a full-power station in 1984, and WFWA signed on December 5, 1986, giving northeast Indiana its own PBS station for the first time. The station's studios are in the Dr. Rudy and Rhonda Kachmann Teleplex on the Purdue University Fort Wayne campus, at 2501 East Coliseum Boulevard.

PBS Fort Wayne broadcasts five television channels over the air on channel 39: PBS Fort Wayne (39.1), PBS KIDS (39.2), Create TV (39.3), WORLD Channel (39.4) and PBSFWx, a 24-hour live weather radar channel (39.5). Channel 39.6 carries the Audio Reading Service curated by the Allen County Public Library for people with impaired vision. Programming also streams on PBSFortWayne.org, the PBS Fort Wayne App, the PBS App, YouTube and other platforms. Local productions include The 260, a weekly half-hour talk magazine about life in northeast Indiana hosted by President and CEO Ed Leon, and Pet Life, a live call-in show with local veterinarians, trainers and rescue advocates.

The station's mission is enriching community through engaging content. Its staff works in television production, programming, broadcast engineering, development and corporate underwriting, creative services and communications, and finance and administration, and it hires full-time producers as well as part-time studio crew for its evening live productions.

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