WSKG-TV is a public television station in Binghamton, New York

Binghamton, New York

Binghamton is a city in the Southern Tier of New York in the United States. It is near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers...

, broadcasting locally on channel 46 as a Public Broadcasting Service

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 station. It is owned and operated by the WSKG Public Telecommunications Council, Inc.

WSKG Public Telecommunications Council

The WSKG Public Telecommunications Council, Inc. is the name of a non-profit Public Broadcasting organisation serving Central, Western, and the Southern Tier of New York State, and Northeast Pennsylvania, with offices based in Vestal ....

. The station's offices are based in Vestal, New York

Vestal, New York

Vestal is a town within Broome County in the Southern Tier of New York, and lies between the Susquehanna River and the Pennsylvania border. As of the 2000 census, the population was 26,535, estimated to have grown to 27,369 in 2009....

.

The station was named for Stanley Kiehl Gambell, a prominent local clergyman who was active in children's television programming.

WSKG-FM

WSKG-FM

WSKG-FM, 89.3 MHz FM, is an NPR member station in Binghamton, New York. It has an effective radiated power of 11.5 kW. Due to hilly terrain, the signal is repeated on several other frequencies located throughout South Central New York State....

 and WSQX-FM

WSQX-FM

WSQX-FM is an NPR member radio station in south-central New York State. It operates in Binghamton, New York on 91.5 MHz , and has an effective radiated power of 3.5 kW...

 are other broadcast stations operated by the same non-profit corporation.

Digital programming

Channel	Programming
46.1	Main WSKG-TV programming / PBS
46.2	ThinkBright ThinkBright ThinkBright TV is a PBS television digital subchannel serving New York State except New York City. Its programming includes educational series, lifelong learning, arts and culture, children's shows and public affairs coverage with a focus on New York's people, places and heritage.ThinkBright & Well...
46.3	Create

Repeaters

The station also operates WSKA-DT channel 30 in Corning, New York

Corning (city), New York

Corning is a city in Steuben County, New York, United States, on the Chemung River. The population was 10,842 at the 2000 census. It is named for Erastus Corning, an Albany financier and railroad executive who was an investor in the company that developed the community.- Overview :The city of...

. WSKA had begun broadcasting as of fall 2006 as a repeater station of WSKG-DT.

WSKG-TV once had many analog translators in operation across New York's Southern Tier. However, due to high operating costs, WSKG ceased the broadcasts, and surrendered the licenses of almost all of their television translators. W60AD channel 60 in Savona, New York

Savona, New York

Savona is a village in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 822 at the 2000 census. The village is named after Savona in Italy.The Village of Savona is located in the eastern part of the Town of Bath...

 is their only TV translator remaining. It has an ERP

Effective radiated power

In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains...

of 650 watts.

External links

• WSKG official website
• Broadcast Localism in Binghamton Market, report filed under FCC's Broadcast Localism NOI.