WYIN
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| Gary, Indiana / Chicago, Illinois | |
| Branding | Lakeshore Public Television |
| Channels | 56 (UHF) analog, 17 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | Northwest Indiana Public Broadcasting, Inc. |
| Founded | November 15, 1987 |
| Call letters meaning | W Your Indiana Neighbor |
| Transmitter Power | 1350 kW (analog) 300 kW (digital) |
| Website | www.lakeshoreptv.com |
WYIN is a public television station in Gary, Indiana, serving the Chicago, Illinois market on channel 56 as a PBS member station. Transmitting from Cedar Lake, Indiana, and with studios and offices in Merrillville, Indiana, the station offers educational programs, sports, and local news. The station's main competition in the market are WTTW and WYCC, public broadcasters in the city of Chicago.
[edit] History
WYIN evolved from non-commercial station WCAE, originally licensed to the Lake Central School Corporation in St. John, and airing on channel 50. The school system was unable to maintain broadcast operations and the station went dark in 1984. The station's license was swapped with Metrowest Corporation's WGMI, a construction permit on channel 56 licensed to Gary that had never been built. Metrowest eventually took the channel 50 signal to air as commercial station WPWR-TV.
The non-commercial license (now reassigned to channel 56) was secured by the founding group of WYIN, who took it on the air in Novermber, 1987.
Aside from PBS, the station produces local programs, including a nightly local newscast entitled "Lakeshore News Tonight". The program was previously called "56 Nightly News".
For many years WYIN fought to try to have it's transmitter re-located to Sears Tower or John Hancock. This was opposed by WTTW and WYCC both which were very critical of the move as it would make WYIN a full competitor in the Chicago market. Right now WYIN pays less for PBS shows, by moving the transmitter to Sears Tower or John Hancock WTTW claimed they would get the same coverage and pay less for their programming leaving WTTW at a disadvantage as well as taking pledges from the station
WYIN stopped trying to move it's aging worn out transmitter and got a new one instead of trying to move. In 2003, WYIN's digital signal on channel 17 began broadcasting.
[edit] Logos
 WYIN's old logo, used until 2006 |
 Current WYIN logo, used since 2006 |
[edit] External links
| Broadcast television in the Chicago market (Nielsen DMA #3) | ||
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WBBM 2 (CBS) - W04CQ 4 (Silent) - WMAQ 5 (NBC) - WLS 7 (ABC) - WGN 9 (The CW) (The Tube on DT2) - WTTW 11 (PBS, Create on DT.2) - WOCK-CA 13 (Azteca América) - W13BQ 13 (DW) - W18AT 18 / W54BK 54 (LeSEA) - WYCC 20 (PBS) - W64CQ 22 (TBN) - WWME-CA 23 (Ind) - WHVI-LP 24 (LeSEA) - WCIU 26 (Ind) - WSPY-LP 30 (A1) - WFLD 32 (Fox) - WEDE-CA 34 (Ind) - WWTO 35 (TBN) - WCPX 38 (i) - WOCH-CA 41 (Ind) - WSNS 44 (TEL) - WFBT-CA 48 (Ind) - WPWR 50 (MNTV) - W54BE 54 (Edu. Ind) - WLFM-LP 55 (Ind) - WYIN 56 (PBS) - WXFT 60 (TFT) - WCHU-LP 61 (MTV3) - WJYS 62 (Ind) - WGBO 66 (UNI) |
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| PBS Member Stations in the state of Indiana | |
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WNIN 9 (Evansville) - WFYI 20 (Indianapolis) - WVUT 22 (Vincennes) - WTIU 30 (Bloomington) - WNIT 34 (South Bend) - WFWA 39 (Fort Wayne) - WIPB 49 (Muncie) - WYIN 56 (Gary) |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, Religious and Other stations in the state of Indiana | |
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