WTVI
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| Branding | PBS Charlotte |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Central Piedmont Community College |
| History | |
First air date | August 27, 1965 |
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Call sign meaning | Television Information |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| 10645 | |
| ERP | 2.57 kW |
| HAAT | 359 m (1,178 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 35°17′15″N 80°41′44″W / 35.28750°N 80.69556°W |
| Translator(s) | 28 (UHF) Hickory |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
WTVI (channel 42) is a PBS member television station in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, owned by Central Piedmont Community College. The station's studios are located on Commonwealth Avenue in the Chantilly-Commonwealth section of east Charlotte, and its transmitter is located in the unincorporated area of Newell in northeastern Mecklenburg County (just northeast of the Charlotte city limits). It is the only public television station in North Carolina that is not operated by PBS North Carolina, and is one of three PBS member stations serving the Charlotte metropolitan area, along with PBS North Carolina's WUNG-TV (channel 58) in Concord and South Carolina Educational Television (SCETV)'s WNSC-TV (channel 30) in Rock Hill.
History
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The station first signed on the air on August 27, 1965;[2] it was originally owned by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education. The WTVI call letters were first used by what is now Fox affiliate KTVI in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1953 to 1955, when it was licensed to Belleville, Illinois, on the east side of the Mississippi River; they were then held from 1955 to 1962 by a station in Fort Pierce, Florida. WTVI's original station manager was Donna Lee Davenport, who was also instrumental in creating the station. In 1982, WTVI's license was transferred to the not-for-profit Charlotte–Mecklenburg Public Broadcasting Authority, turning the station into a community-owned entity.