Does WTTW transmit a digital signal and have multicast channels?
Yes. With the help of our members, supporters and a capital campaign, WTTW has been preparing for this digital transition for years. Here’s a timeline of our own transition: In April 2002, WTTW began transmitting a digital signal of both our analog broadcast and, at that time, a schedule of high-definition programming straight from PBS. In September 2003, WTTW opened a new Master Control Center at the station called the Digital Broadcast Operations Center. At that time, WTTW became a fully-digital broadcasting operation – for both our standard definition broadcast and our high definition broadcast. At this time, our digital broadcast paralleled the content in our analog broadcast. On January 1, 2004, WTTW launched “WTTWD’ or “WTTW Digital’ (over-the-air channel 11-1; Comcast channel 191) which was the first customized, localized and unique stream of digital programming in Chicago. In other words, the program schedule was not parallel to our analog program schedule and was not fed from
