WCET (channel 48) is a PBS member television station in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The station is owned by the Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation,[1][2] a subsidiary of Public Media Connect. WCET was the first licensed public television station in the United States. Its studios are located at the Crosley Telecommunications Center on Central Parkway in downtown Cincinnati, and its transmitter is located on Chickasaw Street in the CUF section of Cincinnati. Master control operations are based at the studios of sister PBS member station WPTD (channel 16) at the ThinkTV TeleCenter on South Jefferson Street in downtown Dayton.
History
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) assigned channel 48 to WCET in 1951. A corporate charter and construction permit were granted in 1953. WCET began broadcasting on July 26, 1954, from a converted closet on the third floor of Music Hall. The first day of programming began with Tel-A-Story, a half-hour reading program by the Cincinnati library