WIPB
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WIPB digital channel 23 is the local Public Broadcasting Service
(PBS) member Public television station for Muncie, Indiana
and East-Central Indiana. The station and its studios are located on the campus of Ball State University. It is owned and operated by Ball State University
.
The station's claim to fame is most likely having been the origin of The Joy of Painting
, a 30-minute art program hosted by a notoriously mellow painter, Bob Ross
. The station also produces Connections Live!, a weekly half-hour magazine show that focuses on the people, places and things in central Indiana that connect people to their communities. The show has won four regional Emmy awards since 2002.
The letters in the callsign stand for Indiana Public Broadcasting.
's sign-on. The station was created by Don Burton, who started a local radio station - WLBC. WLBC-TV carried all three networks, primarily CBS, until the early 1960s when they dropped CBS and became a primary NBC affiliate while keeping some ABC programs. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network
.
Although WLBC was the NBC/ABC affiliate of record in Muncie, WISH, NBC affiliate WFBM-TV (now WRTV
), and ABC affiliate WLWI-TV (now WTHR
) received good signals there. Paired with the high costs of UHF tuners, there was no need for WLBC-TV to remain on the air. Don Burton sold Channel 49 in 1971 to a local ad hoc non-profit group, who changed the station's callsign to the current WIPB. The station eventually was acquired by Ball State University, its present licensee.
:
as 49 through the use of PSIP
.
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
(PBS) member Public television station for Muncie, Indiana
Muncie, Indiana
Muncie is a city in Center Township, Delaware County in east central Indiana, best known as the home of Ball State University and the birthplace of the Ball Corporation. It is the principal city of the Muncie, Indiana, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 118,769...
and East-Central Indiana. The station and its studios are located on the campus of Ball State University. It is owned and operated by Ball State University
Ball State University
Ball State University is a state-run research university located in Muncie, Indiana. It is also known as Ball State or simply BSU.Located on the northwest side of the city, Ball State's campus spans and includes 106 buildings...
.
The station's claim to fame is most likely having been the origin of The Joy of Painting
The Joy of Painting
The Joy of Painting was an American television show hosted by painter Bob Ross that taught its viewers basic techniques for landscape oil painting. Although Bob Ross could complete a painting in half an hour, the intent of the show was not to teach viewers speed painting. Rather, he intended for...
, a 30-minute art program hosted by a notoriously mellow painter, Bob Ross
Bob Ross
Robert Norman "Bob" Ross was an American painter, art instructor, and television host. He is best known as the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, a television program that ran for 12 years on PBS stations in the United States.-Personal life:Ross was born in Daytona Beach, Florida, and...
. The station also produces Connections Live!, a weekly half-hour magazine show that focuses on the people, places and things in central Indiana that connect people to their communities. The show has won four regional Emmy awards since 2002.
The letters in the callsign stand for Indiana Public Broadcasting.
History
Channel 49 started in 1953 as WLBC-TV, about one year prior to WISH-TVWISH-TV
WISH-TV, virtual channel 8, is the CBS-affiliated television station for Central Indiana licensed to Indianapolis. Owned by the LIN TV Corporation, WISH-TV is part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate WNDY-TV and the two share studios on North Meridian Street at the north end of Indianapolis'...
's sign-on. The station was created by Don Burton, who started a local radio station - WLBC. WLBC-TV carried all three networks, primarily CBS, until the early 1960s when they dropped CBS and became a primary NBC affiliate while keeping some ABC programs. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network
NTA Film Network
The NTA Film Network was an early American television network founded by Ely Landau in 1956. The network was not a full-time television network like CBS, NBC, or ABC. Rather, it operated on a part-time basis, broadcasting films and several first-run television programs from major Hollywood studios...
.
Although WLBC was the NBC/ABC affiliate of record in Muncie, WISH, NBC affiliate WFBM-TV (now WRTV
WRTV
WRTV, channel 6, is the ABC television affiliate in Indianapolis, Indiana; it is owned by McGraw-Hill. Its transmitter is located on the northwest side of Indianapolis at 8001 Township Line Road. Its studios are found at 1330 N...
), and ABC affiliate WLWI-TV (now WTHR
WTHR
WTHR, channel 13, is a full-service television station serving the Indianapolis, Indiana metropolitan area. An affiliate of the NBC television network, its studios at 1000 N. Meridian Street anchor the south end of Indy's Television Row...
) received good signals there. Paired with the high costs of UHF tuners, there was no need for WLBC-TV to remain on the air. Don Burton sold Channel 49 in 1971 to a local ad hoc non-profit group, who changed the station's callsign to the current WIPB. The station eventually was acquired by Ball State University, its present licensee.
Digital television
The station's digital signal is multiplexedMultiplexing
The multiplexed signal is transmitted over a communication channel, which may be a physical transmission medium. The multiplexing divides the capacity of the low-level communication channel into several higher-level logical channels, one for each message signal or data stream to be transferred...
:
| Channel | Video Resolution Display resolution The display resolution of a digital television or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is controlled by all different factors in cathode ray tube , flat panel or projection... |
Aspect Ratio Aspect ratio The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements,... |
Name | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49.1 | 720p 720p 720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan... |
16:9 | WIPB-DT | Main WIPB programming PBS Public Broadcasting Service The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia.... HD High-definition television High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD... |
| 49.2 | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
4:3 | WIPB-D2 | PBS Create (4a - 4p) WORLD PBS World PBS World is a 24-hour United States over-the-air digital subchannel showing public TV non-fiction, science, nature, news, public affairs and documentaries... (4p - 4a) |
| 49.3 | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
4:3 | WIPB-D3 | Weather radar/WBST-FM simulcast |
Post-analog shutdown
WIPB ended its analog service on UHF channel 49 on February 18, 2009 , and continued to broadcast on its pre-transition digital channel 23. Digital television receivers display WIPB's virtual channelVirtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....
as 49 through the use of PSIP
Program and System Information Protocol
The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch...
.
Trivia
- Its logo from the late '80s shares the same fanfare as WPSU-TV'sWPSU-TVWPSU-TV is the Public Broadcasting Service member Public television station for the Allegheny area of Pennsylvania that is licensed to Clearfield. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 15 from its transmitter located seven miles north of Clearfield on McGeorge Road in...
(then called WPSX) from around the same time period. As an example, this logo can be found on old tapes of The Joy of Painting.