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Alabama Public Television
statewide Alabama
United States
BrandingAPT
SloganAmerica's First. Alabama's Only. Yours Exclusively.
ChannelsDigital: see table below
Subchannelssee table below
AffiliationsPBS (since 1970)
OwnerAlabama Educational Television Commission
First air dateJanuary 7, 1955 (64 years ago)
Call letters' meaningall stations:
W
second letter: see table below
Intelligence
Quotient
Sister station(s)
Former affiliationsNET (1955–1970)
Transmitter powersee table below
Heightsee table below
Facility IDsee table below
Transmitter coordinatessee table below
Websitewww.aptv.org

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Alabama Public Television is a state network of PBSmembertelevision stations serving the U.S. state of Alabama. It is operated by the Alabama Educational Television Commission, which holds the licenses for all the PBS member stations licensed in the state. The broadcast signals of the nine stations cover almost all of the state, as well as parts of Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee. The network produces public affairs and documentary programming; broadcast and online education programs for classroom use and teacher professional development; and electronic field trips serving K-12 students.

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The network's offices and network operations center are located in Birmingham. APT maintains offices and studio facilities located adjacent to Patterson Field in the state capital of Montgomery, as well as a small secondary studio located in the basement of the Alabama State House. APT also operated a studio in Washington, D.C., in partnership with the Folger Shakespeare Library. The AETC also operates a public radio station, WLRH (89.3 FM) in Huntsville.

  • 3Stations
  • 4Digital television

History[edit]

APT logo, used from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Alabama was one of the earliest states to enter into educational television broadcasting when the Alabama General Assembly created the Alabama Educational Television Commission in 1953. In an unusual move at the time, the Commission requested allocations for four stations which would air the same programming at all times, fed from a central studio in Birmingham. At the time, it was apparent that much of the state outside of Birmingham, Montgomery, and Mobile was too poor and too rural to support a standalone educational station. The Commission thus wanted to ensure that all of the state's children would have access to educational television.

After two years of preparation, it signed on the nation's ninth educational television station, WEDM in Munford, serving Talladega. The transmitter was located atop Cheaha Mountain, the highest point in Alabama. When WBIQ in Birmingham came online in April 1955, Alabama became the first state in the nation with an educational television network. Alabama Educational Television made its first broadcast as a network shortly after WBIQ signed on. Since then, 25 other states have started public television networks, all based on Alabama's model. The network changed its name to the Alabama Public Television Network in the late 1960s, and shortened the name to simply Alabama Public Television in 1988.

APT's studio in Montgomery

WAIQ in Andalusia (now WDIQ in Dozier) went on the air in August 1956, bringing APT to south Alabama for the first time before being reassigned to Montgomery in December 1962. WAAY-TV 25 was issued a construction permit in Huntsville in 1962, but never signed on the air. (They would buy WAFG/31 instead in 1963.) Channel 25 in Huntsville would later become WHIQ in 1965. WAIQ was the first APT station to broadcast a digital signal in 2003, on UHF channel 14, but that signal was later moved to channel 27 on account of Montgomery station WSFA signing on its digital signal on channel 14. Commercial-licensed station WALA-TV in Mobile donated its former transmitter in Spanish Fort to APT in 1964, allowing WEIQ to bring the network to Alabama's Gulf Coast counties that November. WEIQ's transmitter power was increased during the 1980s.

In 1976, the Federal Communications Commission delayed renewal of AETC's licenses due to APT's refusal to air programs pertaining to the Vietnam War or the African-American community. APT management feared that airing these types of programs would cause angry public officials to cut the network's funding and put the network's future in jeopardy. Therefore, APT followed orders by state officials not to air certain programming during the 1960s and 1970s. However, it has taken a more independent stance over the last 30 years.[citation needed] The AETC took over the operation of Huntsville public radio station WLRH in 1977.

In January 1982, a major ice storm caused the collapse of the WCIQ tower, which was then rebuilt.

In August 2004, APT began datacasting on its digital broadcast signals to distribute digital multimedia content to ten elementary and secondary schools, in a pilot program. The datacasting model was replaced by APTPLUS, an online distribution of multimedia content which became available to every school in Alabama via the Internet. Every public school in Alabama registered to use APTPLUS within its first year of operation. Many private school teachers and home school families are also registered users.

APT logo, used from the 1980s to the early 2000s.

Alabama Public Television Kids

For more than a quarter century, Alabama Public Television aired a nightly public affairs program, For the Record, covering statewide news and Alabama politics. The longest-running program of its kind on a PBS member station or regional or state network, it won an award for Best Local News Program from the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA), an organization of public television stations. Capitol Journal succeeded For the Record in 2008 and is produced at APT's Statehouse studio in Montgomery.

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APT began broadcasting a high definition channel (APT HD) in 2005. In December 2006 it launched a digital how-to channel featuring established cooking, gardening, decorating, crafts and sewing programs called APT Create. A third digital channel, APT IQ, debuted in March 2007. Originally called APT IQ, the channel became APT World in October 2012 and offers news and documentary programming. 2017 brought the addition of 'PBS Kids' statewide.

In May 2019, APT made international news by declining to air an episode of the animated children's series Arthur because it featured a same-sex wedding. The programming director said that broadcasting the episode would 'break parents' trust in the network'.[1]

Board members[edit]

The members of the Alabama Educational Television Commission Board as of 2012 are: Ferris W. Stephens, Chairman, Birmingham (6th congressional district), Gregory O. Griffin, Sr., Vice-Chairman, Montgomery (2nd congressional district), Dr. Rodney D. Herring, Secretary, Opelika (3rd congressional district), Bebe Williams, Huntsville (5th congressional district), Les Barnett, Mobile (1st congressional district) and Dr. Dannetta K. Thornton Owens, Birmingham (7th congressional district).

Stations[edit]

Alabama Public Television stations
StationCity of license
(Other cities served)
Channels
TV / RF
First air dateSecond letter's meaningERPHAATTransmitter coordinatesFacility IDPublic license information
WAIQMontgomery
(Selma)
26 (PSIP)
27 (UHF)
December 18, 1962 (56 years ago)Alabama600 kW178.7 m (586 ft)32°22′55″N86°17′33.3″W / 32.38194°N 86.292583°W706Profile
CDBS
WBIQBirmingham
(Anniston/Gadsden/Tuscaloosa)
10 (PSIP)
10 (VHF)
April 28, 1955 (64 years ago)Birmingham3 kW426.2 m (1,398 ft)33°29′4.5″N86°48′25.5″W / 33.484583°N 86.807083°W717Profile
CDBS
WCIQ1Mount Cheaha
(Heflin)
7 (PSIP)
7 (VHF)
January 7, 1955 (64 years ago)Cheaha34.8 kW575.8 m (1,889 ft)33°29′6.2″N85°48′32.7″W / 33.485056°N 85.809083°W711Profile
CDBS
WDIQ2Dozier2 (PSIP)
10 (VHF)
August 8, 1956 (63 years ago)Dozier30 kW224.8 m (738 ft)31°33′17″N86°23′31.4″W / 31.55472°N 86.392056°W714Profile
CDBS
WEIQMobile
(Pensacola/Fort Walton Beach, FL)
42 (PSIP)
41 (UHF)
November 18, 1964 (54 years ago)Educational199 kW185 m (607 ft)30°39′33.9″N87°53′33.5″W / 30.659417°N 87.892639°W721Profile
CDBS
WFIQFlorence
(The Shoals)
36 (PSIP)
22 (UHF)
August 9, 1967 (52 years ago)Florence418.8 kW207.6 m (681 ft)34°34′41″N87°47′1.8″W / 34.57806°N 87.783833°W715Profile
CDBS
WGIQ3Louisville
(Texasville/Dothan/Eufaula/
Phenix City/Columbus, GA)
43 (PSIP)
30 (UHF)
September 9, 1968 (51 years ago)Greater Alabama925 kW262 m (860 ft)31°43′4.8″N85°26′2.9″W / 31.718000°N 85.434139°W710Profile
CDBS
WHIQHuntsville
(Decatur)
25 (PSIP)
24 (UHF)
November 15, 1965 (53 years ago)Huntsville396 kW338.2 m (1,110 ft)34°44′12.7″N86°31′45.3″W / 34.736861°N 86.529250°W713Profile
CDBS
WIIQDemopolis
(Meridian, MS)
41 (PSIP)
19 (UHF)
September 13, 1970 (49 years ago)Informational1000 kW324 m (1,063 ft)32°21′46.1″N87°52′30.5″W / 32.362806°N 87.875139°W720Profile
CDBS
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Notes:

  • 1. WCIQ used the call sign WEDM (EDucational Munford) from January to March 1955,[2] and then WTIQ (T for Talladega) to 1959.[3] Also, the station's city of license was previously Munford (near Cheaha Mountain) from its 1955 sign-on to 1960,[4] and then, Cheaha State Park, where the station's transmitter is located on the mountain. Because the tower is located in Cleburne County, Nielsen Media Research and therefore the FCC considers the station to be a part of the Atlanta, Georgiatelevision market.[5]
  • 2. WDIQ used the call sign WAIQ (A for Andalusia) from its 1956 sign-on to 1961.[6] This station's city of license was Andalusia from its 1956 sign-on to 1962.[7]
  • 3. The WGIQ transmitter is in Texasville, but WGIQ is licensed to Louisville, Alabama.[citation needed]

Coverage areas[edit]

StationSignal Reach
WAIQMontgomery and the southern portion of the geographical center of the state
WBIQBirmingham and the northern portion of the geographical center of Alabama and the west central counties of the state including the city of Tuscaloosa
WCIQTalladega, Anniston, Gadsden and Auburn and the east central portion of the state to western Georgia including the western outskirts of Metro Atlanta; also provides secondary signal for Birmingham
WDIQThe south central portion of the state to Interstate 10 in the Florida Panhandle
WEIQMobile and Baldwin counties along Alabama's Gulf Coast and several counties to the north as well as parts of southeastern Mississippi and the far western Florida Panhandle and the city of Pensacola
WFIQFlorence and the northwestern portion of the state and some counties in southern central Tennessee and northeastern Mississippi; secondary signal for Decatur
WGIQDothan and most of the southeastern portion of the state and some parts of southwestern Georgia; closest APTV signal to Phenix City
WHIQHuntsville, Decatur and most of the north central and northeastern portion of the state as well as some counties in southern central Tennessee; secondary signal for Gadsden
WIIQMuch of southwestern Alabama in the region known as the 'Black Belt' as well as Meridian and some counties in eastern central Mississippi; secondary signal for Tuscaloosa and Selma

Digital television[edit]

Digital channels[edit]

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

ChannelVideoAspectPSIP Short NameProgramming[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
x.1720p16:9APT (WxIQ HD)Main APT programming / PBS
x.2480iPBSKIDSPBS Kids
x.3CREATECreate
x.4WORLDWorld
x.5ETVHuntsville ETV-WHIQ only

Analog-to-digital conversion[edit]

Although the DTV Delay Act extended the mandatory deadline to June 12, 2009, APT shut down the analog signals of all ten stations as originally scheduled on February 17, 2009.[17]

  • WAIQ shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 26; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 27. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 26.
  • WBIQ shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 10; the station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 53, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era VHF channel 10.
  • WCIQ shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7; the station's digital signal relocated to VHF channel 7.
  • WDIQ shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 2; the station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition VHF channel 11 to channel 10. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 2.
  • WEIQ shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 42; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 41. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 42.
  • WFIQ shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 36; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 22. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 36.
  • WGIQ shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 43; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 44. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 43.
  • WHIQ shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 25; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 24. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 25.
  • WIIQ shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 41; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 19. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 41.

On July 29, 2010, WBIQ received a construction permit to move its digital channel from channel 10 to channel 39.[18]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^'Arthur: Alabama Public Television bans gay wedding episode'. BBC. May 21, 2019. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
  2. ^http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/55-OCR/BC-1955-04-04-Page-0098.pdf[permanent dead link]
  3. ^http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/59-OCR/BC-1959-10-26-Page-0119.pdf[permanent dead link]
  4. ^http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/60-OCR/BC-1960-05-09-OCR-Page-0111.pdf
  5. ^'Archived copy'(PDF). Archived(PDF) from the original on 2011-10-18. Retrieved 2013-08-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/61-OCR/BC-1961-10-30-Page-0097.pdf[permanent dead link]
  7. ^http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/62-OCR/BC-1962-02-12-Page-0080.pdf[permanent dead link]
  8. ^RabbitEars TV Query for WAIQArchived 2014-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^RabbitEars TV Query for WBIQArchived 2014-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^RabbitEars TV Query for WCIQArchived 2014-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^RabbitEars TV Query for WDIQArchived 2014-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^RabbitEars TV Query for WEIQArchived 2014-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^RabbitEars TV Query for WFIQArchived 2014-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^RabbitEars TV Query for WGIQArchived 2014-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^RabbitEars TV Query for WHIQArchived 2014-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^RabbitEars TV Query for WIIQArchived 2014-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ^'DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds'(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  18. ^http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1358913.pdf[permanent dead link]

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