WPBS-TV (channel 16) and WNPI-DT (channel 18) are PBS member television stations licensed respectively to Watertown and Norwood, New York, United States. Owned by the St. Lawrence Valley Educational TV Council, the stations maintain studios on Arsenal Street in Watertown. WPBS-TV's transmitter is located on Lewis County Route 194 in Denmark, New York, while WNPI's tower is in South Colton.
WNPI operates as a full-time satellite of WPBS; its existence is only acknowledged in station identifications. Aside from the transmitter, WNPI does not maintain any physical presence locally in Norwood.
The two stations service most of northeastern New York as well as Ottawa and Kingston, Ontario, Canada; their slogan "Your Two-Nation Station" reflects this Canadian audience.[3]
History
The St. Lawrence Valley Educational Television Council, which was organized in 1958, originally produced educational television programming to be carried by local CBS affiliate WWNY-TV (channel 7). In 1971, it established a free-standing PBS station, WNPE-TV, using WWNY's original studios on Champion Hill as the commercial station had already relocated to a larger facility in Watertown.