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WLIW
Garden City-New York, New York
Branding	WLIW 21
Slogan	New York Public Television
Channels	Analog: 21 (UHF) Digital: 22 (UHF)
Subchannels	(see article)
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	Educational Broadcasting Corporation
Founded	January 14, 1969
Call letters’ meaning	Long Island West
Sister station(s)	WNET
Former affiliations	NET (1969-1970)
Transmitter Power	2735 kW (analog) 92 kW (digital)
Height	122.9 m (analog) 111 m (digital)
Facility ID	38336
Transmitter Coordinates	40°47′20.4″N 73°27′7.1″W / 40.789, -73.451972
Website	www.wliw.org/

WLIW channel 21 is a noncommercial television station licensed to Garden City, New York which serves as a secondary PBS member station for the New York City television market. WLIW is owned by the New York City-based Educational Broadcasting Corporation, and is a sister station to New York City's flagship PBS member station, WNET Channel 13. Its studios and transmitter are located in Plainview, New York; while its operations are housed at WNET's studios in Midtown Manhattan.

History

WLIW began broadcasting on January 14, 1969 and is the third-most watched PBS station in the country, behind WNET and KCET in Los Angeles. In February 2003, its original owner, the Long Island Educational TV Council, merged with the Educational Broadcasting Corporation. WLIW's operations were merged with those of WNET. The Long Island Educational TV Council was retained as WLIW's governing board and fundraising arm.

WLIW promotes itself as a more locally-oriented station than WNET, as evidenced by its on-air moniker of "New York Public Television." However, it is a major producer of national PBS programming in its own right. Among its more prominent shows are the innovative Visions series and many music specials featuring noted American performers like Frank Sinatra, Billy Joel, Neil Sedaka, Rick Nelson and international stars like Helmut Lotti and Sarah Brightman. Regular hosts of these specials produced for PBS include Laura Savini, Terrel Cass, Mark Simone, David Rubinson and Lisa Jandovitz.

The current on-air identity, including logo, color palette and on-air graphics, was designed and conceived by Trollback + Company in 2005. It was the station's first corporate branding initiative since its launch in 1969.

Digital television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

WLIW-DT

WLIW-DT broadcasts on digital channel 22.

Digital channel

Analog-to-digital conversion

After the analog television shutdown scheduled for February 17, 2009 ^[1], WLIW will return to channel 21.

External links

• WLIW Website
• WLIW's Visions Series Website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WLIW

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