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WXXI-TV
WXXI-TV (channel 21) is a PBS member television station in Rochester, New York, United States. It is owned by the WXXI Public Broadcasting Council alongside NPR members WXXI (1370 AM) and WXXI-FM (91.5). The three outlets share studios at 280 State Street near downtown Rochester; WXXI-TV's transmitter is located on Pinnacle Hill on the border between Rochester and Brighton. Programming National productions WXXI-TV's national public television productions include ''A Warrior in Two Worlds'', ''Echoes from the Ancients'', '' Out of the Fire'', '' Albert Paley: Man of Steel'', '' Biz Kid$'', and '' Flight to Freedom''. WXXI-TV also produced ''Assignment: The World'', a weekly current-events program for schools, which aired on approximately 100 public television stations nationwide, and was the nation's longest-running instructional television program. Due to funding cuts, it was canceled and its last episode aired on May 23, 2013. Former programming ThinkBright, broadcast from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WXXI Public Broadcasting Council
The WXXI Public Broadcasting Council is a community non-profit organization of some 36,000 subscribing members in the Rochester, New York metropolitan area, and owns that city's major public television and Community radio stations, a newspaper, and other broadcasting services. The Public Broadcasting Council also partners with the City of Rochester to operate and program named City12, a Government-access television (GATV) cable channel which airs Public-access television programming and live City Council meetings on a 15-hour daily schedule. History It was first formed in 1958 by local educators and community leaders as the Rochester Area Educational Television Association to produce and provide Educational television programming to be seen on the city's commercial broadcasting television stations. During the early 1960s the organization raised funds to build its own independent signal which would furnish daily educational, cultural, and informational programming during both sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WXXI-FM
WXXI-FM (91.5 MHz) is a public, listener-supported radio station in Rochester, New York, airing a classical music radio format. Its programs can also be heard in Houghton on WXXY 90.3 FM and also on a digital subchannel of WXXI-TV on 22.7. They are owned by the WXXI Public Broadcasting Council, which also owns WXXI-TV, WRUR-FM and news/information-formatted AM station WXXI 1370 AM. WXXI-FM holds periodic fundraisers on the air to support the station. WXXI-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 45,000 watts. The transmitter is located on Pinnacle Hill in Brighton. It is co-located with the towers for several Rochester FM and TV stations. History On , the station signed on the air. It broadcast from the new WXXI studios at 280 State Street in Rochester. While its initial format was a mixture of classical music, folk music, jazz, news and talk, WXXI-FM became a predominantly classical station after the 1975 format change of WBFB 92.5 from classical to all-news radi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WXXI (AM)
WXXI (1370 AM) is a National Public Radio member station in Rochester, New York, broadcasting news, talk and informational programming on a 24-hour daily schedule. Its programs can also be heard on WXXI-FM's HD Radio signal. History WXXI dates its origins to July 2, 1984, when it signed on with its current mix of NPR news programming, local news and talk, and public affairs programming geared to serve adult listeners in the six-county Rochester metropolitan area which its signal covers. The station is the successor to WSAY, a facility founded and built by the late Gordon P. Brown in 1936 as a small local area station with a 250 watt signal on 1210 kHz. As a result of the NARBA The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA, es, Convenio Regional Norteamericano de Radiodifusión) refers to a series of international treaties that defined technical standards for AM band (mediumwave) radio stations. These agreem ... agreement it moved to 1240 kHz in 1941. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biz Kid$
''Biz Kids'' (stylized as biz KID$) is an American educational television series that teaches financial education and entrepreneurship to kids and teenagers. It uses sketch comedy, musical guests, guest and special guest appearances, and young actors to explain basic economic concepts. Similar in format to CBC Television's '' Street Cents''. Its motto is: "Where kids teach kids about money and business." ''Biz Kid$'' has been described as comparable to KING-TV’s '' Almost Live!''. Production ''Biz Kids'' was created by the producers of ''Bill Nye the Science Guy'', the Emmy Award winning science show from the 1990s. Comedy sketches, spoofs of old TV shows and movies, commercial parodies, and silly antics are performed by a cast of Seattle teenage actors. The specials of ''Biz Kids'' are taking hours or minutes, instead of a typical show, with short sketches, the short, medium or longer sketches. Cast The ''Biz Kids'' cast is made up largely of teenage actors from the Seat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World (TV Channel)
WORLD Channel, also branded as WORLD, is an American digital multicast public television network owned and operated by the WGBH Educational Foundation. It is distributed by American Public Television and the National Educational Telecommunications Association and features programming covering topics such as science, nature, news, and public affairs. Programming is supplied by the entities, as well as other partners such as WNET and WGBH. It is primarily carried on the digital subchannels of PBS member stations. Background In 2004, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation granted PBS funds to develop a public affairs network, Public Square, given the change in broadcasting to digital thus allowing stations to broadcast multiple channels. (Public Square was also a name previous given to a proposed civic series in early 2000s.) The Knight Foundation announced a challenge grant to PBS to launch this network on December 14, 2004 at the Digital Futures Initiative Summit. PBS woul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PBS Kids
PBS Kids is the brand for most of the children's programming aired by the Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) in the United States. Some public television children's programs are not produced by PBS member stations or transmitted by PBS. Instead, they are produced by independent public television distributors such as American Public Television, and are not labeled as "PBS Kids" programming, as it is mainly a programming block branding. The target audience is children between the ages of 2 and 8. The network is also available in sub-Saharan Africa and Australia. History PTV block PBS had historically aired programs for children such as ''Sesame Street'', '' Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'', and '' Reading Rainbow''; prior to 1993, these programs aired under general PBS branding. In August 1993, PBS introduced new branding for their children's programs featuring "The P-Pals", animated characters shaped like PBS logos who encouraged skills such as gathering information, self-est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flight To Freedom
''Flight to Freedom'' is an album by Cuban jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer Arturo Sandoval, first released on the GRP label in 1991. Reception The Allmusic review stated "On his American debut, Sandoval mostly performs boppish jazz (other than the dull "Marianela") with slight touches of rock and spiced with Latin percussion. The trumpeter shows restraint on the ballads (including a tasty "Body and Soul") and displays plenty of fire on the often-funky uptempo romps, not overdoing the effortless high notes. With the assistance of the high-powered tenor of Ed Calle, the versatile guitarist Rene Luis Toledo, and a variety of talented sidemen (including guest Chick Corea on three songs), Arturo Sandoval's long overdue debut is well-rounded, exciting, and highlighted by a fast rendition of Dizzy Gillespie's "Tanga”.” Track listing All compositions by Arturo Sandoval except as indicated # "Flight to Freedom" (Danilo Pérez) # "Last Time I Saw You" ( Richard Eddy) # "Caribe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multiplex (TV)
A multiplex or mux (called virtual sub-channel in the United States and Canada, and bouquet in France) is a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium. The program services are split out at the receiving end. In the United Kingdom, a terrestrial ''multiplex'' (usually abbreviated ''mux'') has a fixed bandwidth of 8 MHz CODFM of interleaved H.222 packets containing a number of ''channels''. In the United States, a similar arrangement using 6 MHz 8VSB is often described as a ''channel'' with ''virtual sub-channels''. Pay television multiplexes In regards to television, the term multiplex is often used to refer to a single broadcaster offering multiple channels of programming as a single bundle to its subscribers. The term is most synonymous with premium television services, such as those devoted to films (where the term evokes the symbolism of multiplex cinemas) or sports; for instance, film services m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultra High Frequency
Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (one decimeter). Radio waves with frequencies above the UHF band fall into the super-high frequency (SHF) or microwave frequency range. Lower frequency signals fall into the VHF (very high frequency) or lower bands. UHF radio waves propagate mainly by line of sight; they are blocked by hills and large buildings although the transmission through building walls is strong enough for indoor reception. They are used for television broadcasting, cell phones, satellite communication including GPS, personal radio services including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, walkie-talkies, cordless phones, satellite phones, and numerous other applications. The IEEE defines the UHF radar band as frequencies between 300 MHz and 1 GHz. Two other IEEE radar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Of Steel
Man of Steel may refer to: Comics * Superman, a DC Comics superhero nicknamed "Man of Steel" * ''The Man of Steel'' (comics), a 1986 comic book limited series * '' Superman: The Man of Steel'', a monthly comic book series about Superman from 1991 to 2003 Film and television * ''The Man of Steel'' (1922 film), a 1922 German silent drama film * ''Man of Steel'' (film), a 2013 Superman film directed by Zack Snyder and starring Henry Cavill * "Man of Steel" (''Supergirl''), a 2018 episode of ''Supergirl'' * "Man of Steel" (''Superman & Lois''), a 2021 episode of ''Superman & Lois'' Music * ''Man of Steel'' (album), a 1983 album by Hank Williams, Jr. * "Man of Steel" (Hank Williams Jr. song), 1984 * "Man of Steel" (Meat Loaf song), a 2003 song on Meat Loaf's album ''Couldn't Have Said It Better'' * ''Man of Steel'' (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the film of the same name People * Joseph Stalin (1878–1953), Soviet revolutionary and leader whose ''nom de guerre'' (Stalin) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
