Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Media, Inc. (MIPM) is a

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Indianapolis Indianapolis ( ), colloquially known as Indy, is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Indiana, most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana, Marion ...

, Indiana, United States, that operates television station WFYI and radio station WFYI-FM, which are member stations of the Public Broadcasting Service (

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) and National Public Radio (

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), respectively. Digital TV channel 20.1 (WFYI 1) primarily broadcasts mainline PBS Kids programming during the day and both locally produced and nationally produced and distributed PBS productions in the evenings and overnight. Digital TV channel 20.2 (WFYI 2) operates as "

PBS Kids PBS Kids (stylized as PBS KIDS) is the branding used for nationally distributed children's programming carried by the U.S. public television network PBS. The brand encompasses a daytime block of children's programming carried daily by most PBS ...

," airing children's programming. Digital TV channel 20.3 (WFYI 3) airs some re-runs of nationally developed programming as well as elements of the national " Create" network, which focuses programming on "how-to" types of educational TV. The beginnings of the "Indiana Channel" are also aired weekly on WFYI 3. On July 1, 2022, MIPM took over operation of two former

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, WBAA (AM) and WBAA-FM. The corporation is headquartered at 1630 N. Meridian Street in Indianapolis.

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External links

WFYI website
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