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WPTD, virtual and UHF digital channel 16, is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Dayton, Ohio, United States. [1]

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Aspect ratio (image)

The aspect ratio of an image describes the proportional relationship between its width and its height.

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Celina, Ohio

Celina is a city in and the county seat of Mercer County, Ohio, United States.

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Central State University

Central State University (CSU) is a historically black university (HBCU) located in Wilberforce, Ohio, United States.

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Channel 14 virtual TV stations in the United States

The following television stations operate on virtual channel 14 in the United States.

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Channel 16 digital TV stations in the United States

The following television stations broadcast on digital channel 16 in the United States.

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Channel 16 virtual TV stations in the United States

The following television stations operate on virtual channel 16 in the United States.

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Channel 28 digital TV stations in the United States

The following television stations broadcast on digital channel 28 in the United States.

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Cincinnati

No description.

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City of license

In American, Canadian and Philippine broadcasting, a city of license or community of license is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator.

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Create (TV network)

Create is an American digital broadcast television network.

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Dark (broadcasting)

In the broadcasting industry, a dark television or silent radio station is one that has gone off the air for an indefinite period of time.

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Dayton Daily News

The Dayton Daily News (DDN) is a daily newspaper published in Dayton, Ohio, United States.

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Dayton, Ohio

Dayton is the sixth-largest city in the state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County.

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Digital on-screen graphic

A digital on-screen graphic (originally known as digitally originated graphic, and known in the UK and New Zealand by the acronym DOG; in the US, Canada, Ireland and Australia as a bug or network bug) is a watermark-like station logo that most television broadcasters overlay over a portion of the screen area of their programs to identify the channel.

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Digital subchannel

In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a method of transmitting more than one independent program stream simultaneously from the same digital radio or television station on the same radio frequency channel.

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Digital television transition in the United States

The DTV (an abbreviation of digital television, also called digital broadcast) transition in the United States was the switchover from analog (the traditional method of transmitting television signals) to exclusively digital broadcasting of free over-the-air television programming.

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Digital terrestrial television

Digital terrestrial television (DTTV or DTT) is a technology for broadcast television in which land-based (terrestrial) television stations broadcast television content by radio waves to televisions in consumers' residences in a digital format.

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Display resolution

The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed.

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Downtown Cincinnati

Downtown Cincinnati contains the central business district of Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as a number of urban neighborhoods in the low land area between the Ohio River and the high land areas of uptown.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute (and) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable.

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Flash cut

A flash cut, also called a flash cutover, is an immediate change in a complex system, with no phase-in period.

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Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company (often shortened to Fox and stylized as FOX) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

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Gannett Company

Gannett Company, Inc. is a publicly traded American media holding company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, near McLean in Greater Washington DC.

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High-definition television

High-definition television (HDTV) is a television system providing an image resolution that is of substantially higher resolution than that of standard-definition television, either analog or digital.

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Independent station (North America)

An independent station is a type of television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not affiliated with any broadcast television network; most commonly, these stations carry a mix of syndicated, brokered and in some cases, local programming to fill time periods when network programs typically would air.

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Indiana

Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.

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Kettering, Ohio

Kettering is a city in Montgomery and Greene counties in the U.S. state of Ohio, almost entirely in Montgomery County.

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List of television stations in Ohio

This is a list of broadcast television stations serving cities in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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List of television stations in the United States by call sign (initial letter W)

This is a list of full-power television stations in the United States having call signs beginning with the letter W. Low-power TV stations, those with designations such as WAOH-LP or W16CE, have not been included in this list.

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Maplewood, Ohio

Maplewood is an unincorporated community in northern Salem Township, Shelby County, Ohio, United States.

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Master control

Master control is the technical hub of a broadcast operation common among most over-the-air television stations and television networks.

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Media market

A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area (DMA), television market area, or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same (or similar) television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content.

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Miami University

Miami University (also referred to as Miami of Ohio or simply Miami) is a public research university on a 2,138-acre campus in Oxford, Ohio, 35 miles north of Cincinnati.

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Multiplex (television)

A multiplex or mux (called virtual sub-channel in the United States and Canada, and bouquet in France) is the popular term used for the grouping of program services that are sub-grouped as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium, which are split out at the receiving end.

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National Educational Television

National Educational Television (NET) was a United States educational broadcast television network that was owned by the Ford Foundation and later co-owned by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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Network affiliate

In the broadcasting industry (particularly in North America), a network affiliate or affiliated station is a local broadcaster, owned by a company other than the owner of the network, which carries some or all of the lineup of television programs or radio programs of a television or radio network.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Oxford, Ohio

Oxford is a city in Butler County, Ohio, United States, in the southwestern portion of the state approximately 28 mi (46 km) NW of Cincinnati.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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PBS Kids

PBS Kids is the brand for most of the children's programming aired by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States.

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Planning permission

Planning permission or developmental approval refers to the approval needed for construction or expansion (including significant renovation) in some jurisdictions.

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Pledge drive

A pledge drive is an extended period of fundraising activities, generally used by public broadcasting stations to increase contributions.

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Program and System Information Protocol

The Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) is the MPEG (a video and audio industry group) and privately defined program-specific information originally defined by General Instrument for the DigiCipher 2 system and later extended for the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a television station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch by title and description.

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Public affairs (broadcasting)

In broadcasting, public affairs radio or television programs focus on matters of politics and public policy.

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Public Media Connect

Public Media Connect, Inc. is a non-profit organization that owns southwest Ohio's largest PBS member television stations.

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Radio masts and towers

Radio masts and towers are, typically, tall structures designed to support antennas (also known as aerials) for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television.

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Simulcast

Simulcast, a portmanteau of simultaneous broadcast, is the broadcasting of programs or events across more than one medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at exactly the same time (that is, simultaneously).

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Sister station

In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio or television stations operated by the same company, either by direct ownership or through a management agreement.

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South Fairmount, Cincinnati

South Fairmount is a neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Spectrum (cable service)

Spectrum (formerly Charter Spectrum) is a brand of Charter Communications used to market consumer cable television, Internet, and telephone provided by the company, and formerly provided by Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, which Charter Communications acquired in May 2016.

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Spectrum reallocation

Middle 20th century frequency allocation assigned much of the radio spectrum to broadcasting.

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Standard-definition television

Standard-definition television (SDTV or SD) is a television system which uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high- or enhanced-definition.

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Television station

A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity, such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to a receiver on earth.

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The Cincinnati Enquirer

The Cincinnati Enquirer is a morning daily newspaper published by Gannett Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

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The Ohio Channel

The Ohio Channel is a service of Ohio's public broadcasting stations that operates out of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio.

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Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable (TWC) was an American cable television company.

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Ultra high frequency

Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one decimeter.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Virtual channel

In most telecommunications organizations, a virtual channel is a method of remapping the program number as used in H.222 Program Association Tables and Program Mapping Tables to a channel number that can be entered via digits on a receiver's remote control.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.

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WCET (TV)

WCET, virtual channel 48 (UHF digital channel 34), is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

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WMUB

WMUB is a public radio station licensed to Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio, United States.

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World (TV channel)

World (previously PBS World) is a United States over-the-air digital subchannel showing public TV non-fiction, science, nature, news, public affairs and documentaries.

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WPTD

WPTD, virtual and UHF digital channel 16, is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Dayton, Ohio, United States.

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Wright State University

Wright State University is a public research university in Fairborn, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton.

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WXIX-TV

WXIX-TV, virtual channel 19 (UHF digital channel 29), is a Fox-affiliated television station serving Cincinnati, Ohio, United States that is licensed to Newport, Kentucky (as such, it is the only commercial television station to be licensed to a community on the Kentucky side of the market). The station is owned by Raycom Media. WXIX-TV's studios are located at 19 Broadcast Plaza on Seventh Street just west of downtown Cincinnati, and its transmitter is located in the South Fairmount neighborhood on the northwest side of Cincinnati. On cable, the station is available on Charter Spectrum channel 3 in Ohio and channel 4 in Kentucky, and on Cincinnati Bell channel 3.

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1080i

1080i (also known as Full HD or BT.709) is an abbreviation referring to a combination of frame resolution and scan type, used in high-definition television (HDTV) and high-definition video.

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16:9

16:9 (1.7:1) (16:9.

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480i

480i is a shorthand name for the video mode used for standard-definition analog or digital television in Caribbean, Myanmar, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Laos, Western Sahara, and most of the Americas (with the exception of Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay).

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Greater Dayton Public Television, Think TV, Think TV 16, Think TV16, ThinkTV, ThinkTV 16, ThinkTV16, University Regional Broadcasting, W17AA, W32DS-D, W63AH, WKTR-TV, WOET, WPTD 16, WPTD-DT, WPTD-TV, WPTD-TV 16, WPTD16, WPTO.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPTD

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