weiu tv . wtiu bloomington indiana united states branding wtiu tiu news news briefs slogan ... more than just tv channels digital 14 uhf virtual 30 psip affiliations .1 pbs .2 world .3 create .4 v me owner indiana university the trustees of indiana university first air date march 3 1969 ; 47 years ago 1969 03 03 call letters meaning television indiana university sister station s wfiu former channel number s analog 30 uhf 1969 2009 former affiliations net 1969 1970 transmitter power 224 kw height 221 m facility id 66536 transmitter coordinates 39 8 31 n 86 29 43 w 39.14194 n 86.49528 w 39.14194 ; 86.49528 licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website www.indianapublicmedia.org tv wtiu virtual channel 30 uhf digital channel 14 is a pbs member television station located in bloomington indiana united states . the station is owned by indiana university and is a sister station to npr member radio station wfiu 103.7 fm . wtiu maintains studio facilities located on the indiana university campus on east 7th street in bloomington and its transmitter is located on sare road on the city s southeast side . on cable wtiu is available on comcast xfinity channel 5 in bloomington in at & t u verse channel 30 in indianapolis in standard definition and in high definition on xfinity digital channel 1022 in bloomington and at & t u verse channel 1030 in indianapolis . the station is also the default pbs member for the terre haute market which doesn t have a pbs member of its own . it is carried by most cable providers in west central indiana including the area s primary provider time warner cable . contents 1 history 2 digital television 2.1 digital channels 2.2 analog to digital conversion 3 programming 4 references 5 external links history edit inside wtiu master control . in late 1968 after receiving support from the university s president herman b. wells indiana university applied for a license from the federal communications commission to operate a educational television station . the station first signed on the air on march 3 1969 as a member station of national educational television ; the first program ever broadcast on wtiu was the friendly giant . wtiu became a member of the public broadcasting service pbs when net was reorganized on october 6 1970 . channel 30 originally maintained a skeletal staff of only three employees and initially broadcast on monday through saturdays for five hours a day during the afternoon hours . as the station was unable to afford equipment to allow programming to be transmitted in color much of the programming broadcast by wtiu was aired in black and white . through pbs s program differentiation plan the network s programming was eventually divided between it and three other pbs members in the indianapolis market wfyi channel 20 muncie based wipb channel 49 and by 1992 wtbu channel 69 now daystar owned and operated station wdti . digital television edit digital channels edit the station s digital channel is multiplexed channel video aspect psip short name programming 1 30.1 1080i 16 9 wtiu hd main wtiu programming pbs 30.2 480i 4 3 wtiu d2 world tiu world 30.3 wtiu d3 create tiu family 30.4 wtiu d4 v me tiu espa ol in 2009 wtiu upgraded the station s primary digital channel to allow the transmission of programming in high definition originally maintaining a schedule separate from that of wtiu s main channel . the station also launched a secondary service on digital subchannel 30.2 branded as tiu 2 which primarily aired educational programming and college telecourses ; the subchannel was converted into tiu world serving as an affiliate of pbs world in 2010 . at the same time wtiu added two additional subchannels respectively carrying programming from the lifestyle and how to service create branded as tiu family and the spanish language network v me branded as tiu espa ol . analog to digital conversion edit wtiu began operating its digital signal in 2007 broadcasting on uhf channel 14 . wtiu shut down its analog signal over uhf channel 30 on june 12 2009 the official date in which full power television in the united states transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate . the station s digital signal remained on its pre transition uhf channel 14 . 2 through the use of psip digital television receivers display the station s virtual channel as its former uhf analog channel 30 . programming edit wtiu s flagship original production is the public and cultural affairs program the weekly special in production since 2005 . the friday zone in production since 1999 is an award winning children s program syndicated on seven pbs stations across indiana . wtiu also regularly produces documentaries typically focusing on local or regional topics . documentary series produced by the station have included our town which focus on a single community s culture and history and the spirit of monroe county which focuses on the people and places of interest in monroe county . wtiu also produces daily news updates in the form of twice daily 5 minute newsbreak segments as well as the half hour weekly newsmagazine indiana newsdesk . in 1973 wtiu collaborated with the iu opera theater to produce a telecast of the opera myshkin which earned the station a peabody award . references edit rabbitears tv query for wtiu dtv tentative channel designations for the first and the second rounds pdf . retrieved 2012 03 24 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to wfiu . www.indianapublicmedia.org tv wtiu official website the weekly special website query the fcc s tv station database for wtiu biafn s media web database information on wtiu tv v t e television stations in central indiana including indianapolis english stations wttv wttk 4.1 29.1 cbs 4.2 29.2 independent 4.3 29.3 comet wrtv 6.1 abc 6.2 htsn 6.3 laff 6.4 escape wish tv wiih cd 8.1 the cw 8.2 get tv 8.3 justice network wthr 13.1 nbc 13.2 cozi tv 13.3 metv wfyi 20.1 pbs 20.3 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