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WLIW channel 21 is a noncommercial television station licensed to Garden City, New York
Garden City, New York

Garden City is a Political subdivisions of New York State#Village in central Nassau County, New York, New York, in the United States, which was founded by multi-millionaire Alexander Turney Stewart in 1869....
 which serves as a secondary PBS
Public Broadcasting Service

The Public Broadcasting Service is an United States non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States....
 member station for the New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 television market. WLIW is owned by the New York City-based Educational Broadcasting Corporation (also known as "WNET.org"), and is a sister station to New York City's flagship PBS member station, WNET
WNET

WNET, channel 13, is a non-commercial television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey. With its signal covering the three-state New York metropolitan area, WNET is a flagship station of the Public Broadcasting Service and a primary provider of PBS programming....
 Channel 13. Its studios and transmitter are located in Plainview, New York
Plainview, New York

Plainview is a hamlet located in the Oyster Bay , New York, Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 27,677 as of 2007.Plainview and its neighboring hamlet, Old Bethpage, share a school system, library, fire department, and water district....
; while its operations are housed at WNET's studios in Midtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan

Midtown Manhattan, or simply Midtown, is an area of Manhattan, New York City home to world-famous commercial zones such as Rockefeller Center, Broadway, and Times Square....
.

began broadcasting on January 14, 1969 and is the third-most watched PBS station in the country, behind WNET and KCET
KCET

KCET is the PBS member-television station in Los Angeles, California. It is one of four PBS member stations serving Southern California, the others being KVCR-TV, KOCE-TV, and KLCS....
 in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
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WLIW channel 21 is a noncommercial television station licensed to Garden City, New York
Garden City, New York

Garden City is a Political subdivisions of New York State#Village in central Nassau County, New York, New York, in the United States, which was founded by multi-millionaire Alexander Turney Stewart in 1869....
 which serves as a secondary PBS
Public Broadcasting Service

The Public Broadcasting Service is an United States non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States....
 member station for the New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 television market. WLIW is owned by the New York City-based Educational Broadcasting Corporation (also known as "WNET.org"), and is a sister station to New York City's flagship PBS member station, WNET
WNET

WNET, channel 13, is a non-commercial television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey. With its signal covering the three-state New York metropolitan area, WNET is a flagship station of the Public Broadcasting Service and a primary provider of PBS programming....
 Channel 13. Its studios and transmitter are located in Plainview, New York
Plainview, New York

Plainview is a hamlet located in the Oyster Bay , New York, Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 27,677 as of 2007.Plainview and its neighboring hamlet, Old Bethpage, share a school system, library, fire department, and water district....
; while its operations are housed at WNET's studios in Midtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan

Midtown Manhattan, or simply Midtown, is an area of Manhattan, New York City home to world-famous commercial zones such as Rockefeller Center, Broadway, and Times Square....
.

History

WLIW began broadcasting on January 14, 1969 and is the third-most watched PBS station in the country, behind WNET and KCET
KCET

KCET is the PBS member-television station in Los Angeles, California. It is one of four PBS member stations serving Southern California, the others being KVCR-TV, KOCE-TV, and KLCS....
 in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
. In February 2003, its original owner, the Long Island Educational TV Council, merged with the Educational Broadcasting Corporation. WLIW's operations were merged with those of WNET. The Long Island Educational TV Council was retained as WLIW's governing board and fundraising arm.

WLIW promotes itself as a more locally-oriented station than WNET, as evidenced by its on-air moniker of "New York Public Television." However, it is a major producer of national PBS programming in its own right. Among its more prominent shows are the innovative Visions series and many music specials featuring noted American performers like Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
, Billy Joel
Billy Joel

William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
, Neil Sedaka
Neil Sedaka

Neil Sedaka is an United States pop music singer, pianist, and songwriter often associated with the Brill Building. He teamed up with Howard Greenfield to write hits for himself and others....
, Rick Nelson and international stars like Helmut Lotti
Helmut Lotti

Helmut Lotti is a Belgium popular singer and songwriter. The son of Luc Lotigiers and Rita Lagrou, he began his singing career with a visual and singing style in an obvious imitation of Elvis Presley, and was described as "De Nieuwe Elvis" or "The New Elvis"....
 and Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman

Sarah Brightman is an English people Crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer. She sings in many different languages including English language, Spanish language, French language, Latin language, German language, Italian language, Hindi language and Chinese language....
. Regular hosts of these specials produced for PBS include Laura Savini, Terrel Cass, Mark Simone
Mark Simone

Mark Simone is an United States radio personality. He can be heard on WABC in New York.Simone appears occasionally on CNN, MSNBC and PBS. He also occasionally fills in for other ABC Radio hosts such as Don Imus, Mark Levin and Sean Hannity....
, David Rubinson and Lisa Jandovitz.

The current on-air identity, including logo, color palette and on-air graphics, was designed and conceived by Trollback + Company in 2005. It was the station's first corporate branding initiative since its launch in 1969.

Digital television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

WLIW-DT

WLIW-DT broadcasts on digital channel 22. Digital channel>
Channel Name Programming
21.1 WLIW-DT main WLIW/PBS programming
21.2 WLIW-DT2 Create
21.3 WLIW-DT3 PBS World
PBS World

PBS World is a 24-hour digital channel showing PBS documentaries, primarily science, current affairs, and history programs. It is a joint venture between PBS, Boston, Massachusetts's WGBH-TV, and New York City's WNET....


Analog-to-digital conversion

After the analog television shutdown scheduled for June 12, 2009 , WLIW will return to channel 21.

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