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Connecticut Public Television (CPTV) is the Board of Trustees.[5]
The network's first station, WEDH in Hartford, signed on in 1962, airing broadcasts in "black and white" at the Trinity College Library. It was the fourth educational television station in New England, following WGBH-TV in Boston, WENH-TV in Durham, New Hampshire (now part of New Hampshire Public Television), and WCBB in Augusta, Maine (now part of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network).[6] Originally a member of National Educational Television, it joined PBS in 1969. Originally known as Connecticut Educational Television, it became Connecticut Public Television in 1984.
CPTV remained based on rented space at Trinity College until selling its headquarters back to the school for $10 million in 2002.[7] In 2004, CPTV moved to a state-of-the-art facility on Asylum Avenue in downtown Hartford. The infrastructure of CPTV was eventually upgraded through a partnership with Sony Systems Integration Center (SIC), which enabled the delivery of HD quality telecommunications to subscribers. [8] In the 1990s, a "volunteer of the week" program was offered.[9]
Since 1985, CPTV has received the following awards:[10]
CPTV
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CPTV was the broadcast and web streaming home of UConn Women's Basketball from 1994-2012.[11] The game broadcasts were the highest rated locally produced program in the PBS system.
CPTV is a major producer of children's programming for the PBS system. Its best-known offering was Barney & Friends. The character was actually discovered in 1991 when the daughter of CPTV executive Larry Rifkin bought a Barney and the Backyard Gang home video and was mesmerized by it. CPTV continued to distribute the show until 2006; it is now distributed by WNET in New York. Other children's shows originated by CPTV are Thomas & Friends, Rubbadubbers, Bob The Builder, Angelina Ballerina, The Saddle Club and Toddworld.
Throughout the 1990s, M*A*S*H star Alan Alda hosted a science show called Scientific American Frontiers, based on the popular magazine Scientific American. That show was also produced by CPTV and aired nationwide.
Since 2002, CPTV has been working with HiT Entertainment, who has helped distribute some of CPTV's children's programs. Beginning in 2008, most of CPTV's kids programming (which are all of post 2002 production with HiT Entertainment) have been presented by WNET.
Other programs produced by or for CPTV include:[12]
The CPTV stations are:
The network previously operated a translator in Waterbury, W12BH (channel 12), which directly repeated WEDY. That station was taken off the air to allow WTXX to begin digital television operations.
CPTV is available on all cable systems in the state. On satellite, WEDH is available in nearly all of the state on the Hartford/New Haven DirecTV and Dish Network feeds, while WEDW is available on the New York City local feeds. This gives CPTV a potential audience of 21 million people in three states.
The digital signals of CPTV's stations are multiplexed:
During 2009, in the lead-up to the analog-to-digital television transition that would ultimately occur on June 12, CPTV shut down the analog transmitters of its stations on a staggered basis. Listed below are the dates each analog transmitter ceased operations as well as their post-transition channel allocations:[17]
On March 16, 2011, the FCC granted WEDY its petition to move from VHF channel 6 to UHF channel 41 because of viewer reception issues and interference from both WPVI-TV in Philadelphia and WRGB in Schenectady, New York (both also operate on channel 6) after those two stations implemented recent power increases.[19]
The CPBN Learning Lab's goal is to create 21st century journalists and train instructors to pass that gift forward. Donations from The Wounded Warrior Project, The Newman’s Own Foundation, Wal-Mart Foundation, SBM Charitable Foundation, Farmington Bank Community Foundation, and others were noted as making this Learning Lab possible.[20][21] In July of 2013, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy also obtained an Assistance to Firefighters Grant in the amount of $141,420 as a contribution to the lab for a series of fire safety videos.[22] The KBE Building Corporation was selected to build Robert Roach of Friar Associates' design for CPTV's learning lab, which was completed in Spring of 2013.[23] Presently, the Hartford Public Schools Journalism & Media Academy (JMA) receives full-time access to the facility in order to enhance media skills.
Since 2007, CPBN Media Lab instructors and mentors have provided real world technical and journalism training for over 600 Connecticut students through seminars, workshops and courses.
The Media Lab has brought journalism and technical media skills training to middle school students through its Future Producers Academy, "Media is Magic" SAND Media Enrichment Program and West Middle Media Project and for high school students through its Media 101 and Young Entrepreneur courses in its Impact Academy.
Internships are provided to undergraduate college students, often for college credit, and for recent graduates seeking to acquire technical and editorial skills, including researching, interviewing, shooting, editing, and posting.
Graduates of our college program have gone on to Journalism school in London, the masters of arts in Journalism program at Hofstra University, in online services at CPBN, as an animation and graphics producer at CPBN, as an account executive at WTNH-New Haven, and as working journalists as the editor of the Avon Patch and as a reporter for the Journal Inquirer. CPBN Media Lab graduates are also working at A&E Networks, Hasbro Studios, Nickelodeon, Sacred Heart University, the Rachael Ray Show, TracyLocke, Taft School, Mohegan Sun and CPBN Education.
The CPBN Media Lab has been a partner with the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs from their inception in 2010, serving as the professional mentor for five Connecticut high schools, Hill Regional Career High School and the Metropolitan Business Academy in New Haven, Crosby High School in Waterbury, Terryville High School in Terryville and Bethel High School in Bethel.
Currently the media lab is serving as the professional mentors to the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Lab it established at America's Choice at SAND school in Hartford, CT., where it is only one three in the nation to work with middle school students.
Projects produced by the Media lab include:
Awards & Recognition
An offshoot of CPTV, this channel provides 24/7 access to Connecticut sports.[24]
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