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City | Gary, Indiana |
Channels | |
Branding | Lakeshore PBS |
Programming | |
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Ownership | |
Owner | Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting, Inc. |
WLPR-FM | |
History | |
First air date | November 15, 1987 |
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Call sign meaning | "We're Your Indiana Neighbor" |
Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 49803 |
ERP | 1,000 kW |
HAAT | 290 m (951 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°20′56″N 87°24′2″W / 41.34889°N 87.40056°W |
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Public license information | |
Website | www |
WYIN (channel 56), branded on-air as Lakeshore PBS, is a secondary PBS member television station licensed to Gary, Indiana, United States, serving the Chicago area. It is owned by Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting, Inc., as a sister station to NPR member WLPR-FM (89.1). Both stations share studios on Indiana Place (Mississippi Street) in Merrillville, while WYIN's transmitter is located near Lake Dalecarlia (due south of Cedar Lake). WYIN is one of two PBS member stations in the Chicago television market, alongside Chicago-licensed WTTW (channel 11).