WHUT-TV (channel 32) is the secondary PBS member television station in Washington, D.C. The station is owned by Howard University, a historically Black college, and is sister to commercial urban contemporary radio station WHUR-FM (96.3). WHUT-TV's studios are located at the Student Resource Center (Campus Building 54) on the Howard University campus on 4th Street NW, and its transmitter is located in the Tenleytown neighborhood in the northwest quadrant of Washington.
WHUT airs a variety of standard PBS programming, as well as programs produced by Howard University, and international programs focusing on regions such as the Caribbean and Africa.
History
On June 25, 1974, Howard University was granted a construction permit to build a new television station on channel 32 in Washington, D.C.[1] It was more than six years before the station signed on November 17, 1980.[2] WHMM-TV (whose call letters stood for Howard University Mass Media[3]