WKAR-TV Channel 23 East Lansing

Slogan: WKAR-TV, Public Broadcasting for Mid-Michigan

Analog Power/Height/Offset: 1,230,000 watts / 969 feet / -
- Analog Service Area

Digital Channel: 55

Final Digital Channel: 40

Digital Power/Height: 54,600 watts / 969 feet
- Digital Service Area

Digital Const. Permit: 50,000 watts / 969 feet (Channel 40)
- Digital Service Area

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Call Sign History:

Network Affiliation History: PBS

On Air Date: January 1954

Telephone: (517) 432-9527

Notes/History:

3/2008: Construction permit granted for post-transition digital facilities on Channel 40.

1972: With UHF-capable receivers becoming more common, Michigan State moves its TV operations to channel 23 as WKAR-TV and begins operating a full-time schedule. WILX (NBC) remains on channel 10.

1959: Moves to channel 10 as WMSB. Shares channel with WILX, an NBC affiliate. Most television sets at the time could not receive the UHF signal of WKAR on channel 60 and owner Michigan State University applied to move to channel 10 as a way to reach potential viewers. There were several other applications for channel 10, and eventually a deal was worked out so that WILX would broadcast about 70% of the schedule and WMSB the other 30%. WILX controlled the prime-time hours.

1/1954: Signs on the air as WKAR on channel 60, becoming only the third educational TV station in the USA and the first east of the Mississippi River. WKAR-TV is the second-oldest surviving educational TV station in the country.

Transmitter location:

Ingham County