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52 years ago 1964 09 01 wrpt december 27 2008 ; 7 years ago 2008 12 27 call letters meaning wdse duluth superior educational wrpt iron range public television former channel number s analog wdse 8 vhf 1964 2009 digital wdse 38 uhf 2003 2009 former affiliations net 1964 1970 transmitter power wdse 34 kw digital wrpt 250 kw digital height wdse 295 m digital wrpt 167 m digital facility id wdse 17726 wrpt 159007 transmitter coordinates wdse 46 47 30 n 92 7 19.9 w 46.79167 n 92.122194 w 46.79167 ; 92.122194 wrpt 47 22 53.1 n 92 57 15.7 w 47.381417 n 92.954361 w 47.381417 ; 92.954361 wrpt licensing authority fcc public license information wrpt profile wrpt cdbs website www.wdse.org wdse is an educational television station in duluth minnesota serving portions of minnesota and wisconsin as a pbs member station on channel 8 with studios located on campus at the university of minnesota duluth . wdse is a border station serving residents of both minnesota and wisconsin . along with programming from pbs minnesota public television and wisconsin public television locally produced programs such as minnesota legislative report wdse cooks almanac north venture north native report great gardening lawyers on the line and doctors on call are area favorites included in the broadcast schedule . wdse produces broadcasts and supplies to the networks an intensive schedule of local and regional programming . in addition to regular television programming wdse broadcasts computer data on a full time basis a service called datacasting . the stream consists of datacast wisconsin a service of wisconsin public television . one mbs of wdse s 19.3 mbs digital stream is devoted to datacast wisconsin . in november 1982 wdse was the first minnesota television broadcaster to utilize a circularly polarized broadcast antenna in april 1985 the first in minnesota to begin full time stereo television broadcasting and in may 2003 wdse became the first broadcaster in minnesota to launch a channel 8.2 pbs hd fully devoted to high definition programming . in june 2008 wdse became the first station in the duluth superior market to begin producing local programming in high definition hd . in another first wdse wrpt was the first station in the duluth superior market to begin broadcasting in 5.1 dolby surround sound starting june 12 2009 . in late august 2010 wdse was rebranded from pbs eight to pbs north to reflect their extended coverage with wrpt into more of northeastern minnesota . during the school year wdse airs educational instructional programming from wisconsin public tv from 9am to 11 30am and 1pm to 2 00pm during daytime hours and the overnight block feed for pre recording purposes from 1am to 3am . contents 1 wrpt 2 history 3 digital television 3.1 digital channels 3.2 analog to digital conversion 4 translator stations 5 references 6 external links wrpt edit wdse also operates sister station wrpt channel 31 in hibbing minnesota to serve the minnesota iron range communities . wrpt began broadcasting december 27 2008 utilizing a directional antenna that beams the signal across the minnesota iron range communities . wrpt operates with a power of 250 kilowatts . history edit wdse first went on the air on september 1 1964 as the second educational station in minnesota . its digital signal first went on the air on april 28 2003 . wrpt first went on the air as a digital station on december 27 2008 . on june 16 2009 wdse tv dt officially changed the station s call sign to simply wdse dropping the tv or dt at the end of the call sign . wdse s former logo until september 2010 . wrpt was one of the first of two construction permits ever granted by the fcc as a digital singleton facility ; wrpt is a rare ground up digital only station that had no analog counterpart . on march 1 2010 wrpt dt officially changed the station s call sign to simply wrpt dropping the dt at the end of the call sign . digital television edit digital channels edit both stations digital signals are multiplexed channel video aspect psip short name programming 1 xx .1 720p 16 9 wdse dt wrpt dt main programming pbs xx .2 480i pbs west pbs satellite service xx .3 create create xx .4 mnc minnesota channel analog to digital conversion edit wdse discontinued regular programming on its analog signal over vhf channel 8 on june 12 2009 as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television . 2 the station s digital signal relocated from its pre transition uhf channel 38 to vhf channel 8 . translator stations edit orr minnesota k24jr d digital international falls minnesota k51cm d digital kabetogama minnesota k36la d digital the translator in orr is owned by a private entity while the other two are owned by koochiching county . the last translator owned directly by wdse was k67ct in grand marais minnesota . rather than move from channel 67 to a channel between 2 and 51 as required to comply with the digital television transition in the united states the translator was taken off the air december 1 2011 . 3 references edit rabbitears tv query for wdse list of digital full power stations grand marais translator service ends 12 1 . wdse wrpt pbs 8 & 31 . retrieved 1 december 2011 . external links edit official site query the fcc s tv station database for wdse query the fcc s tv station database for k59en query the fcc s tv station database for k51cm query the fcc s tv station database for k36la query the fcc s tv station database for wrpt biafn s media web database information on wdse tv rabbitears.info query wdse rabbitears.info query wrpt v t e broadcast television in northeast minnesota and northwest wisconsin including the twin ports duluth superior reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television duluth superior kdlh 3.1 cw kbjr tv 6.1 nbc 6.2 cbs 6.3 mntv wdse 8.1 pbs 8.2 pbs 8.3 create 8.4 mn wdio dt 10.1 abc 10.2 metv kqds tv 21.1 fox 21.2 anttv kcwv 27.1 amgtv iron range krii 11.1 nbc 11.2 cw 11.3 cbs 11.9 mntv wirt dt 13.1 abc 13.2 metv k15gt 15 fox k29eb 29 fox wrpt 31.1 pbs 31.2 pbs 31.3 create 31.4 mn k47ir 47 fox international falls k53cq d 11.1 nbc 11.2 cw 11.3 cbs 11.9 mntv k49bu d 13.1 abc 13.2 metv k51cm d 31.1 pbs 31.2 hd 31.3 create 31.4 mn k38mm d 39.1 3abn 39.2 3abn pr 39.3 3abn dd 39.4 3abn es 39.5 3abn rd 39.6 3abn rl 39.7 radio 74 k45jd 45 fox adjacent locals ckpr 2.1 ctv thunder bay cbmt 6.1 cbc montr al wlef 36 pbs wpt park falls defunct kdul lp 12 upn ain wast lp 25 upn wftv 38 abc nbc cbs dumont k58cm 58 tbn see also twin cities tv fargo grand forks tv eau claire la crosse tv wausau tv marquette tv ontario tv v t e pbs member stations in the state of minnesota ktca 2.1 ktci 2.3 st. paul wdse 8.1 wrpt 31.1 duluth hibbing kawe 9.1 kawb 22.1 bemidji brainerd kwcm 10.1 ksmn 20.1 appleton worthington ksmq 15.1 austin kcge 16.1 crookston grand forks nd see also abc cbs cw fox ion mynetworktv nbc pbs other stations in minnesota retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wdse & oldid 735865300 categories pbs member stationstelevision channels and stations established in 1964university of minnesota duluthpublic broadcasting in wisconsintelevision stations in duluth minnesotahidden categories wikipedia introduction cleanup from october 2015all pages needing cleanuparticles covered by wikiproject wikify from october 2015all articles covered by wikiproject wikifyarticles that may contain original research from october 2015all articles that may contain original researcharticles needing additional references from october 2015all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 23 august 2016 at 16 22 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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