WSKG Public Media is the community-licensed PBS and NPR member for New York's Southern Tier and northern Pennsylvania, based in Vestal, New York, running WSKG-TV, WSKG news radio and WSKG Classical across 21 counties.
WSKG Public Media is a community-licensed public broadcaster serving 21 counties across the Southern Tier and Central New York and northern Pennsylvania. It is operated by the WSKG Public Telecommunications Council, a private nonprofit corporation chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York and governed by a Board of Trustees selected from the communities the station serves. Its studios are at 601 Gates Road in Vestal, New York, near Binghamton, and it also has an office at 217 North Aurora Street in Ithaca.
WSKG-TV, a PBS member station, signed on in 1968 and is rebroadcast by WSKA in Corning. Over the air it carries WSKG TV, WSKG World and WSKG Create. On radio, the NPR news service WSKG (WSKG-FM, 89.3 FM in Binghamton, on the air since 1975) is repeated on frequencies serving Ithaca and Watkins Glen, Hornell and Alfred, Corning and Elmira, Oneonta and Cooperstown, and Odessa, and WSKG Classical (WSQX-FM, 91.5 FM in Binghamton) is repeated in Ithaca, Cooperstown, Greene and Norwich, and Corning. Both radio services stream at wskg.org and on the NPR One app.
WSKG produces local news, public affairs, arts, culture and educational programming, along with programming from PBS, NPR, American Public Television and American Public Media. Its newsroom reports on the region for radio, television, the web, social media and podcasts, and the station runs community events and youth media programs.
WSKG hires reporters and producers, fundraising, membership and underwriting staff, marketing and community engagement staff, finance and administration, IT and engineering, youth media program managers and senior leadership, according to its job postings and FCC EEO public file reports. Openings are posted at wskg.org/jobs, and applications go to jobs@wskg.org.
