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Branding | WQED |
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Ownership | |
Owner | WQED Multimedia |
Radio: WQED-FM | |
History | |
First air date | April 1, 1954 |
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Call sign meaning | Quod erat demonstrandum ("What has been shown") |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 41315 |
ERP | 10 kW |
HAAT | 218.3 m (716 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°26′46.2″N 79°57′50.2″W / 40.446167°N 79.963944°W |
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Website | www |
WQED (channel 13) is a PBS member television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Owned by WQED Multimedia, it is sister to public radio station WQED-FM (89.3). The two outlets share studios on Fifth Avenue near the Carnegie Mellon University campus and transmitter facilities near the campus of the University of Pittsburgh, both in the city's Oakland section.
Established on April 1, 1954, WQED was the first community-sponsored television station in the U.S. and the country's fifth public television station.[2] It was the first station to telecast classes to elementary school classrooms when Pittsburgh launched its Metropolitan School Service in 1955. The station has been the flagship for the shows Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Once Upon A Classic, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (a co-production with Boston's WGBH-TV; filmed in New York City), and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (whose live-action scenes are filmed in Pittsburgh).