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WYES-TV

Coordinates:29°57′14″N89°56′58″W / 29.95389°N 89.94944°W /29.95389; -89.94944
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TV station in New Orleans

WYES-TV
WYES-TV's Navarre Avenue studios are officially named the Paulette and Frank Stewart Innovation Center for Educational Media.
Channels
BrandingWYES PBS
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
OwnerGreater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation
History
First air date
April 1, 1957 (67 years ago) (1957-04-01)
Former call signs
WYES (1957)[2]
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 8 (VHF, 1957–1970), 12 (VHF, 1970–2009)
  • Digital: 11 (VHF, 2004–2024)
  • NET (1957–1970)
  • Silent (August–December 2005)
Call sign meaning
  • The word "yes"
  • -or-
  • "We're Your Education Station"
Technical information[3]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID25090
ERP1,000kW
HAAT306 m (1,004 ft)
Transmitter coordinates29°57′14″N89°56′58″W / 29.95389°N 89.94944°W /29.95389; -89.94944
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.wyes.org

WYES-TV (channel 12) is aPBS membertelevision station inNew Orleans, Louisiana, United States, owned by the Greater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation. The station's studios are located on Navarre Avenue in the city'sNavarre neighborhood, and its transmitter is located on Magistrate Street inChalmette.

WYES-TV is the only independently ownedpublic television station in Louisiana as it is not part ofLouisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB), which owns all of the PBS member stations in the state that are located outside of New Orleans, and maintains a programming agreement with and partial ownership of the city'sindependent public television station,WLAE-TV (channel 32). WYES-TV is also available oncable providers inBiloxi andGulfport, Mississippi, despite the presence ofMississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) transmitter WMAH-TV. WYES-TV carries PBS andAmerican Public Television (APT) distributed programs, as well as programs from other distributors. Many national programs produced by WYES-TV are distributed by APT.

History

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WYES-TV traces its history to 1953, when a group of civic leaders led byMarion Abramson formed the Greater New Orleans Educational Television Association. TheFederal Communications Commission (FCC) had assigned theVHF channel 8 allocation in the New Orleans market fornon-commercial use, and the group quickly snapped up the license.

WYES-TV's previous logo, used from 1980 to 2001.
Alternate version of WYES-TV's logo, used from 2001 to 2008.

After numerous fits and starts, the station first signed on the air on April 1, 1957, on VHF channel 8. It was the 12th educational television station to sign on in the United States and the second in Louisiana as well as New Orleans' third television station (behindWDSU andWVUE, but beforeWWL-TV andWGNO). The state's first educational station,KLSE signed on a month earlier fromMonroe, but went off the air in 1964, making WYES the oldest continuously operating educational station in Louisiana. After KLSE shut down, WYES would be the only educational station in the state until LPBflagship WLPB-TV inBaton Rouge signed on in September 1975. It originally operated as a member ofNational Educational Television (NET); the station joined the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), when NET was reorganized in 1970.

On June 8 of that year at 8 p.m., the station swapped channel positions with then-ABC affiliate WVUE and moved to channel 12,[4] where the station remains today as its virtual channel. This was done in order for WVUE to be able to have a stronger broadcast signal which did notinterfere withJackson, MississippiCBS affiliateWJTV, which also broadcasts on channel 12.[5]

On July 8, 1984,WLAE-TV signed on as a secondary PBS member station for the market. It was owned by a partnership of the Willwoods Community and LPB; the later bought a stake in order to get its Louisiana-focused programming into New Orleans. Through PBS' Program Differentiation Plan, WLAE carried only 25% of the programming broadcast by PBS, with channel 12 carrying the remainder of the network's programs. WYES became one of the earliest TV stations in the United States (and the first in New Orleans) to broadcast instereo, doing so in May 1985. WYES became the market's exclusive PBS member once again on August 1, 2013, when WLAE ended its membership with the network to increase its focus on its locally produced programming.[6][7] Among the PBS shows that WLAE had carried prior to leaving PBS wereSesame Street, which it shared with WYES, and thePBS NewsHour, whose removal from channel 32 resulted in the news program only being available in the market through WYES-TV'sWorld subchannel on digital channel 12.2 until it was added to that station's primary channel the following month on September 2; the program had aired on WLAE under a longstanding arrangement with WYES.[6][7]

Hurricane Katrina

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Sign in front of WYES' New Orleans studio building, with visible high water lines fromKatrina's earlier flooding.

Due to massive flooding caused by thelevee failures that occurred duringHurricane Katrina's landfall on August 29, 2005, WYES' Navarre Avenue studios, where the station had been based for nearly its entire existence, sustained severe damage from flood waters of up to five feet (1.5 m).[8] The Navarre neighborhood is located in a low-lying area that sustained particularly severe damage due to flooding. The station's transmitters were spared serious damage, but the storm damaged a backup generator that provided emergency power to the transmitter facility, keeping the station off the air for almost four months.

Following Katrina, WYES partnered with localcable providers including Cox Communications andCharter Communications to pipe in LPB's signal starting in November 2005. WYES restored its broadcast signal on December 30, operating from a temporary facility located on Veterans Boulevard and Phosphor Avenue inMetairie. It would take almost six years for WYES to return to New Orleans itself.

In May 2011, WYES began construction of a new 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m2) broadcast facility located behind the original building that cost $7 million to build. Funding for its construction came from multiple sources, including funds raised during since-aborted plans for an unrelated facility, to have been known as the "Teleplex", that was planned to be built in the 1990s on the campus of theUniversity of New Orleans. The facility was constructed in two phases: with a building that houses the station's technical equipment being built first, followed by another complex that would replace the original facility, which would house other operations.[8] The station moved its fundraising operations back to the original Navarre Avenue facility in 2012, with the rest of the station's operations following suit later that year.[9]

Original programming

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The set ofKevin Belton's New Orleans Kitchen.

WYES is best known outside of New Orleans as the home of the famous Louisiana chef and storytellerJustin Wilson, whose show originated from WYES-TV's studios. It is also known as the home for another famous Louisiana chef,Paul Prudhomme. WYES has been the originator of nationally syndicated cooking shows hosted byKevin Belton, as well asKitchen Queens: New Orleans, a series dedicated to the pioneering chefLeah Chase that spotlights women chefs at their New Orleans area restaurants.[10]

In 1984, WYES premieredInformed Sources, a program devoted to in-depth discussion of the news by local journalists; it is still running today.[11]Informed Sources was inspired by a former WYES show entitledCity Desk, which ran from 1971 to 1978.[12]

The 1985 documentary miniseriesSpaceflight was co-produced by WYES.TheSteven Banks Show, a short-lived PBS sitcom, was filmed at the WYES studios in 1994.

Since 1997 duringMardi Gras, WYES has televised coverage of theRex ball hosted by Peggy Scott Laborde and Errol Laborde, including the "Meeting of the Courts" with theMistick Krewe of Comus—an event considered the symbolic end of Carnival season.[13]

Notable people

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Technical information

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Subchannels

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The station's signal ismultiplexed:

Subchannels of WYES-TV[14]
ChannelRes.AspectShort nameProgramming
12.1720p16:9WYES-HDPBS
12.2480i4:3WYESSD1World
12.3WYESSD2Create
12.4WYESSD3PBS Kids
32.1720p16:9WLAE HDWLAE-TV (Edu.Ind.)
32.2480i4:3EncoreWLAE Encore
32.3C TVCatholicTV
  Broadcast on behalf of another station

Analog-to-digital conversion

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WYES-TV shut down its analog signal, overVHF channel 12, at 7 a.m. on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcasts on its pre-transition VHF channel 11,[15] usingvirtual channel 12.

References

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  1. ^"Channel Substitution/Community of License Change".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission. March 16, 2021. RetrievedMarch 16, 2021.
  2. ^"FCC History Cards for WYES-TV".
  3. ^"Facility Technical Data for WYES-TV".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
  4. ^"New Orleans stations to trade channels"(PDF).Broadcasting. May 25, 1970. p. 50.
  5. ^WYES, WVUE Stations Switch Channel Numbers,The Times-Picayune, June 10, 1970.
  6. ^ab"New Orleans PDP station WLAE ends PBS membership".Current. August 2, 2013. RetrievedJanuary 16, 2014.
  7. ^abWalker, Dave (July 29, 2013)."'NewsHour,' 'Charlie Rose' viewers will scramble as WLAE drops PBS affiliation".The Times-Picayune. RetrievedJanuary 16, 2014.
  8. ^ab"WYES-TV (finally) breaks ground on new headquarters".The Times-Picayune. June 23, 2011. RetrievedMay 9, 2014.
  9. ^WYES contact information
  10. ^Bergeron, Judy (May 14, 2020)."Girl power: New Orleans' diverse female chefs reign on new series 'Kitchen Queens'".The Advocate. Baton Rouge, Louisiana. RetrievedFebruary 15, 2023.
  11. ^"WYES Informed Sources Archive".Louisiana Digital Library. RetrievedJuly 16, 2018.
  12. ^"Informed Sources".
  13. ^Singletary, Kimberley (February 12, 2021)."Mardi Gras memories: The 2020 meeting of the Rex and Comus courts will be broadcast again".NOLA.com. RetrievedFebruary 21, 2023.
  14. ^"RabbitEars TV Query for WYES".RabbitEars.info. RetrievedJuly 19, 2024.
  15. ^"DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds"(PDF). RetrievedMarch 24, 2012.

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