WHRO-TV

WHRO-TV
Hampton-Norfolk, Virginia United States

Branding	WHRO
Slogan	Hampton Roads' Own
Channels	Digital: 16 (UHF) Virtual: 15 (PSIP)
Subchannels	15.1 PBS 15.2 PBS World 15.3 PBS Kids
Affiliations	PBS (1970–present)
Owner	Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc.
First air date	September 27, 1961 (1961-09-27)
Call letters' meaning	Dual meaning: HomeRoom One (reflects roots in instructional programming) Hampton ROads
Sister station(s)	WHRE, WHRO-FM, WHRV
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 15 (UHF, 1961–2009)
Former affiliations	NET (1961–1970)
Transmitter power	1000 kW
Height	360.6 m
Facility ID	25932
Transmitter coordinates	36°48′31.8″N 76°30′11.3″W / 36.808833°N 76.503139°W / 36.808833; -76.503139
Licensing authority	FCC
Public license information:	Profile CDBS
Website	www.whro.org

WHRO-TV digital channel 15 is the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member Public television station for Hampton Roads, Virginia (the Norfolk–Portsmouth–Newport News television market DMA). The station is licensed to both Hampton and Norfolk with the studios at the Public Telecommunications Center for Hampton Roads next to the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk. Its transmitter is located in Suffolk, Virginia.

It is owned by the Hampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association (HRETA), a consortium of 19 Hampton Roads and Eastern Shore school systems—Accomack, Gloucester, Isle of Wight, Mathews, Middlesex, Sussex, Southampton, Northampton and York counties and the independent cities of Norfolk, Hampton, Franklin, Newport News, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, Suffolk, Poquoson, and Williamsburg.

History

Former WHRO logo, used from mid-1990s to December 31, 2010

The station signed on September 27, 1961, as the first educational station licensed in Virginia. The channel 15 position was previously occupied by then-NBC and now current ABC affiliate WVEC-TV, now on channel 13. It was a member of National Educational Television and owned by the Norfolk and Hampton school systems. Only two years later, it moved to its current facility in Norfolk, which was heavily renovated in 1990. Eight other school systems began using WHRO's services in 1966 and HRETA was formed two years later. It became a charter member of PBS in 1970.

WHRO is well known for its instructional programming, much of which is distributed to other PBS stations as well as member/owner and other school systems and health systems through a private educational broadcast network.

WHRO also had an annual fundraising auction marathon, The Great TV Auction, which featured local celebrities as auctioneers.

WHRO also sponsors the Consortium for Interactive Instruction (CII), which is a partnership among all the Hampton Roads area school divisions as well as many private schools for the advancement of technology in the school curriculum. One of the key events that CII sponsors is the Great Computer Challenge. This is a competition for students at all levels of K-12 education in many areas of computer technology. For example, students at the middle and high school levels compete in categories varying from web design to C++, Visual Basic and Java programming, as well as music composition and Computer Aided Design and Desktop Publishing and Desktop Presentations (PowerPoint).

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, WHRO changed its logo on January 1, 2011.

Eastern Shore translators

There are two low-powered translators of WHRO-TV that are located in the Eastern Shore of Virginia and are municipally owned by Accomack County rather than the HRETA.^[1]^[2] WHRO-TV and HRETA do not own and operate any translators in the Greater Hampton Roads area.

W18EG-D Channel 18.4 Onancock
W25AA-D Channel 25 Onancock

WHRO-TV previously had a translator with the call sign W20CW serving Craddockville – the license for this translator was cancelled on July 9, 2012.

Digital television

Digital channels

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming^[3]
15.1	1080i	16:9	WHRO-HD	Main WHRO-TV programming / PBS
15.2	480i	4:3	WORLD	World
15.3	480i	4:3	KIDS	WHRO Kids

In addition, WHRO-TV also provides WHRO Create exclusively to cable/FiOS.

Analog-to-digital conversion

WHRO-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 15, on February 17, 2009, as part of the federally mandated from analog to digital television (which Congress had moved the previous month to June 12).^[4] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 16, using PSIP to display WHRO-TV's virtual channel as 15 on digital television receivers.

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Television stations in the Hampton Roads region, including Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Newport News, Virginia

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

Digital television	WUND (2.1 PBS, 2.2 Kids, 2.3 Explorer, 2.4 North Carolina) WTKR (3.1 CBS, 3.2 This TV) WSKY-TV (4.1 IND, 4.2 Escape, 4.3 Laff) WGBS-LD (7.1 Retro TV, 7.2 Infomercials, 7.3 Heartland) WAVY-TV (10.1 NBC, 10.2 Bounce, 10.3 GetTV) WVEC (13.1 ABC, 13.2 Justice, 13.3 MeTV) W14DC (14.1 HSN2) WHRO (15.1 PBS, 15.2 World, 15.3 Kids, 15.4 Create) WYSJ-CA 19 (Classic TV) WTPC-TV (21.1 TBN, 21.2 Church, 21.3 JUCE TV, 21.3 Smile, 21.4 Enlace, 21.5 Salsa) WVAD-LD (25.1 Daystar) WGNT (27.1 CW, 27.2 Antenna) WTVZ (33.1 MNTV, 33.2 ASN, 33.3 Comet, 33.4 Grit) WJGN-CD (38.1 NRB) WVBT (43.1 Fox) WPXV-TV (49.1 Ion, 49.2 qubo, 49.3 Ion Life, 49.4 Ion Shop, 49.5 QVC, 49.6 HSN)

Analog television	WVBN-LP 18 / WJHJ-LP 39 (The Walk TV)

Cable television	Cox 11

Defunct stations	WPEN-LP 68 (ind.) Local News on Cable WAVY Weather Station

Virginia broadcast television areas by city Bristol Bluefield Charlottesville Harrisonburg Norfolk Richmond Roanoke Washington, DC North Carolina broadcast television areas by city Asheville Charlotte Greensboro Greenville, NC Myrtle Beach, SC Norfolk, VA Raleigh Wilmington See also Salisbury TV

PBS member stations in the Commonwealth of Virginia

WBRA 15 / WSBN 47 / WMSY 52 (Roanoke / Norton / Marion) WHRO 15 (Hampton) WCVE 23 / WCVW 57 / WHTJ 41 (Richmond / Charlottesville) WETA 26 (Arlington / Washington, DC) WVPT 51 / WVPY 42 (Staunton / Front Royal)

See also ABC CBS CW Fox Ion MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in Virginia

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