WQED Changes Lives
WQED was the nation’s first community-supported television station and went on the air on April 1, 1954. In 1973, Classical WQED-FM 89.3 was founded as the region’s only 24-hour classical radio station. Today, WQED is educational public media with four television programming streams: WQED-TV; WQED: The Neighborhood Channel; WQED: The Create Channel; and WQED Showcase; three radio streams: WQED-FM 89.3; WQEJ-FM 89.7/Johnstown; The Pittsburgh Concert Channel at WQED-FM HD-2 and www.wqed.org/fm online provide WQED content for free to all residents in the viewing and listening area, and online around the world; local and national television and radio productions; WQED Interactive, and iQ: smartmedia, WQED’s Educational initiative. Over the years, WQED has been honored with 73 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards (including two for Station Excellence); 61 national Emmy Awards; an Academy Award; 10 Peabody Awards; 5 DuPont/Columbia batons; 10 Gabriel Awards; 27 CINE Golden Eagle Awards; 1 Edward R. Murrow Award; 95 Golden Quill Awards; 23 awards from the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters (PAB); and 13 Telly Awards. Throughout its history, WQED has partnered with hundreds of local community organizations toward improvements in education; arts and culture; community health; economics; and important local issues through its form of civic journalism. These partnerships are a hallmark of WQED’s mission and are an important part of its daily activities. As the only community-owned multimedia resource in the region, WQED is a convener, a central gathering place, and a conduit for other local non-profit organizations. From local and national programming that exports Pittsburgh to the world to teacher training sessions and media literacy, WQED reaches every facet of life in southwestern Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, and western Maryland. No other local media can match WQED’s footprint or impact. WQED, VHF channel 13, is a PBS member television station located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by WQED Multimedia. Whether natives or transplants, most Pittsburghers know WQED. Pittsburghers have come to rely on its quality programming and viewers and supporters appreciate WQED’s safe, educational content for children. WQED’s reverence for the city can be seen in local broadcasts that highlight Pittsburgh’s distinctiveness. WQED has exported the region nationally with projects like The War That Made America, a four part historical documentary on the French and Indian War that aired nationwide on PBS; national cooking shows with Chris Fennimore; the Doo Wop music franchise; weekly national radio broadcasts of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and a continuing series of local and national documentaries by Emmy Award-winning producer Rick Sebak. WQED is one of the busiest producers of local programming in the PBS system. In addition to the local and national documentaries, WQED produces and airs local programs that capture the stories of advancement, arts and diversity in our region: Please visit WQED.org to learn more and to support their valuable programming. How do you think Burgh Man learns so much?