West Virginia Public Broadcasting is the statewide PBS and NPR network for West Virginia, a state agency governed by the West Virginia Educational Broadcasting Authority, headquartered in Charleston and home of Mountain Stage.
West Virginia Public Broadcasting (WVPB) is the statewide public television and radio network for West Virginia. It is governed by the West Virginia Educational Broadcasting Authority, whose members are appointed by the governor, and headquartered at 600 Capitol Street in Charleston, with studios in Morgantown and Beckley. The first station, WMUL-TV at Marshall University in Huntington, signed on in 1969; the television stations became a statewide network in 1992, and the television and radio services merged under one brand on January 1, 2015.
The television network consists of WVPB-TV in Huntington, WSWP-TV in Grandview and WNPB-TV in Morgantown plus translators, carrying PBS, the West Virginia Channel and PBS Kids to nearly all of the state and parts of neighboring states. The radio network has eleven full-power FM stations and translators carrying NPR news, classical music and programs such as Eclectopia and Lost Highways. WVPB produces Mountain Stage, the live music program distributed nationally by NPR, the podcasts West Virginia Morning and Inside Appalachia, a daily legislative recap during the session, documentaries on state history and culture, and local news through its newsroom and the Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom collaboration. Education services include resources for pre-K through adult learners, Mountain Readers and PBS Kids programs, and the WVPB app and wvpublic.org carry its streams and on-demand video. Two nonprofits, the Friends of West Virginia Public Broadcasting and the West Virginia Public Broadcasting Foundation, raise money for the network.
WVPB's mission is to educate, inform and inspire its people by telling West Virginia's story, and it has adopted the Public Media Code of Editorial Integrity. As a state agency it offers state benefits and retirement; its positions are not civil service. WVPB hires in journalism, production, engineering, development, education, finance and administration, and applicants send a resume, cover letter and references to its human resources director by email. The Educational Broadcasting Authority is an equal opportunity employer.
