Public Media Connect is the regional public media organization for Greater Cincinnati and Dayton, operating PBS stations CET (WCET) in Cincinnati and ThinkTV (WPTD and WPTO) in Dayton, with education services that reach more than 3 million people in southwest Ohio.
Public Media Connect is the nonprofit public media organization serving Greater Cincinnati and Dayton through two PBS member stations: CET (WCET, channel 48) in Cincinnati and ThinkTV (WPTD, channel 16, and WPTO, channel 14) in Dayton and Oxford. It was formed in May 2009 when the Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation and Greater Dayton Public Television merged under a shared umbrella; each station keeps its own local brand, nonprofit status and fundraising while sharing management, master control and services.
CET first aired on July 26, 1954 and received the first non-commercial educational broadcast license in the United States in 1955; ThinkTV traces its history to 1967 and adopted its name in 1998. Together the stations serve more than 3 million people with PBS and local programming, the CET Arts and Create channels, PBS Kids, Passport streaming, and local productions such as The Art Show and Showcase with Barbara Kellar. Education services include PBS LearningMedia, early learning workshops, teacher professional development, career and workforce programs such as the A to Z Career Lab and STEM Career Lab, and parent resources.
Public Media Connect's mission is to strengthen the communities and region it serves by providing content and services that engage, inspire, inform, educate and entertain. It is headquartered at the Crosley Telecommunications Center, 1223 Central Parkway in Cincinnati, with ThinkTV's TeleCenter at 110 South Jefferson Street in Dayton, and hires across both cities in development, membership, marketing and communications, education, production, engineering and finance through an online application.
