WQED (TV)

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WQED

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States
Channels	Digital: 4 (VHF) Virtual: 13
Branding	WQED
Programming
Affiliations	13.1: PBS for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	WQED Multimedia
Sister stations	Radio: WQED-FM
History
First air date	April 1, 1954 (70 years ago) (1954-04-01)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 13 (VHF, 1954–2009) Digital: 38 (UHF, 1999–2009), 13 (VHF, 2009–2019)
Former affiliations	NET (1954–1970)
Call sign meaning	Quod erat demonstrandum ("What has been shown")
Technical information[1]
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 / 40.446167; -79.963944 (WQED)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.wqed.org

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).