WCNY is Central New York's member-supported public media organization, licensed to the Public Broadcasting Council of Central New York: PBS television (WCNY, Create, World and PBS Kids), Classic FM radio and education programs from its Broadcast and Education Center in Syracuse.
WCNY is the public broadcasting organization for Central New York, based in Syracuse and licensed to the Public Broadcasting Council of Central New York, Inc., a member-supported nonprofit chartered by the New York State Department of Education. WCNY-TV signed on December 20, 1965 as an educational station and joined PBS in 1970. Its four television channels, WCNY, Create, World and PBS Kids, reach more than 1.8 million people across 19 counties over the air and through cable, fiber and satellite, with a translator serving the Mohawk Valley.
On radio, WCNY-FM 91.3 and its repeaters WUNY and WJNY carry Classic FM, a locally programmed classical music service with NPR news, plus Community FM and jazz and oldies channels on HD Radio. Since 2013 the organization has worked from the WCNY Broadcast and Education Center on Syracuse's Near Westside, which holds two television studios, two radio studios, ten production suites and the Centralcast joint master control that serves PBS stations in New York and beyond.
WCNY produces local programs such as Cycle of Health, CONNECT NY, Ivory Tower and The Capitol Pressroom, along with documentaries, and runs education programs including Enterprise America, a simulated city where middle and high school students run businesses, and Regents Review. About 70 people work there in production, engineering, master control, radio, education, membership, media sales and administration. Applications go to Human Resources at 415 West Fayette Street, Syracuse.
