WNEO

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Television station in Alliance, Ohio

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::summary Television station in Alliance, Ohio ::

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Field	Value
logo	PBS Western Reserve logo 2019.webp
logo_upright	1
branding	PBS Western Reserve
affiliations
owner	Western Reserve Public Media
licensee	Northeastern Educational Television of Ohio, Inc.
country	United States
licensing_authority	FCC
website
city1	Alliance–Youngstown, Ohio
city2	Akron–Canton, Ohio
name1	WNEO
name2	WEAO
virtual1	45
virtual2	49
digital1	29 (UHF)
digital2	24 (UHF), shared with WRLM
former_channel_numbers1
former_channel_numbers2
facility_id1	49439
facility_id2	49421
airdate1
airdate2
erp1	465 kW
erp2	191 kW
haat1	251.1 m
haat2	294.6 m
coordinates1
coordinates2
callsign_meaning1	Northeastern Ohio
callsign_meaning2	Eastern Ohio
former_callsigns1	WNEO-TV (1973–1990)
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WNEO (channel 45) is a non-commercial educational television station licensed to Alliance, Ohio, United States. It is simulcast full-time over satellite station WEAO (channel 49) in Akron, Ohio. Both are member stations of PBS and jointly brand as PBS Western Reserve. WNEO is the Youngstown market's PBS station of record, while WEAO provides the Cleveland market with a second choice for PBS programming alongside the market's primary PBS station, WVIZ (channel 25).

WNEO and WEAO are owned by Northeastern Educational Television of Ohio, which is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation (and formerly a consortium of the University of Akron, Kent State University and Youngstown State University). The two stations operate from studios on Kent State's campus on Campus Center Drive in Kent, northeast of Akron and roughly west of Youngstown. WNEO's transmitter is located in Salem, while WEAO's transmitter is based in Copley Township.

WNEO also operates W13DP-D, a low-power digital translator in Youngstown, which serves low-lying areas in the Mahoning Valley that are not covered from the main WNEO signal. The translator signed on as analog W58AM in May 1980, converted to digital as W44CR-D in November 2009, and moved to its current channel in November 2019.

History

WNEO first signed on the air on May 30, 1973. It was originally intended to serve all of Northeast Ohio from Youngstown to Cleveland. Its city of license, Alliance, is split between both major markets in the region. Most of the city is in Stark County, which is in the Cleveland market; a small portion is in Mahoning County, which includes Youngstown. However, it was later decided to reorient WNEO to serve Youngstown and sign on a satellite station to serve Akron and Cleveland. That station, WEAO, signed on the air more than two years later on September 21, 1975. Prior to WEAO's sign-on, the channel 49 allocation in the Cleveland–Akron market was occupied by Akron-based WAKR-TV from 1953 to 1967, when that station moved to UHF channel 23. WNEO and WEAO were jointly branded as PBS 45 & 49 until late 2008 when they changed their on-air branding to "Western Reserve PBS", as part of the parent organization's overall branding change to Western Reserve Public Media in 2008.

Technical information

Subchannels

The stations' signals are multiplexed: ::data[format=table title="Subchannels of WNEO{{cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WNEO#station|title=RabbitEars TV Query for WNEO|website=[[RabbitEars.info]]|accessdate=September 13, 2024}}"]

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name
720p	16:9	WNEO HD	PBS
480i	WNEO FS	Fusion
WNEO FN	FNX
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::data[format=table title="Subchannels of WEAO and WRLM{{cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WEAO#station|title=RabbitEars TV Query for WEAO|website=[[RabbitEars.info]]|accessdate=September 13, 2024}}"]

License	Channel	Res.	Aspect
720p	16:9	WEAO HD	PBS
480i	WEAO FS	Fusion
WEAO FN	FNX
720p	WRLM	TCT
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WNEO and WEAO carried Create on digital channels 45.3 and 49.3 and the Ohio Channel on digital channels 45.4 and 49.4 until August 2007, when the two subchannels were removed to make room for their high definition feeds. The analog simulcast of WNEO/WEAO remained on digital channels 45.2 and 49.2 until the June 12, 2009, digital transition, when they were replaced with Western Reserve PBS Fusion, a local service which aired concerts and music-related programs until August 1, 2009, at which point it switched to a mix of local programming; WNEO/WEAO then added MHz Worldview to digital channels 45.3 and 49.3 on June 13. WNEO and WEAO carried V-Me on digital channels 45.4 and 49.4 on September 19, 2009. The channel was discontinued in April 2017.

Translator

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City of license	Callsign	Translating	Channel	ERP	HAAT	Facility ID	Transmitter coordinates
	Youngstown	****	WNEO	13 (VHF)	0.27 kW	186 m	49432
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Analog-to-digital conversion

WNEO ended regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 45, on November 19, 2008. Two days later on November 21, the station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 46 to channel 45 for post-transition operations.

WEAO ended regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 49, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations 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 50, using virtual channel 49.

References

(2009). "Organization Profile". Western Reserve Public Media.
[http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=W13DP-D FCC TV query for W13DP-D]
(June 1, 1973). "Channel 45? It's WNEO". The Akron Beacon Journal.
(September 21, 1975). "Ch. 49 goes on air today". The Akron Beacon Journal.
[http://www.westernreservepbs.org/news/newname08.htm PBS 45 & 49 to Change Name to Western Reserve Public Media]
"RabbitEars TV Query for WNEO".
"RabbitEars TV Query for WEAO".
"Digital Services".
"DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds".

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