History
WNEO first began broadcasting in 1973. Licensed to Alliance, Ohio, the station serves the Youngstown area from a transmitter site in Salem, Ohio. WNEO also operates W44CR-D, a digital translator in Youngstown serving low-lying Mahoning Valley areas shadowed from the main WNEO signal. The digital translator, which went on the air in 2009, is a conversion of the former W58AM analog translator at the same location.
WEAO first began broadcasting in 1975. Licensed to Akron, Ohio, it broadcasts from a transmitter site in Copley, Ohio and provides the Cleveland area with a second PBS member station, alongside WVIZ. Previously, channel 49 had been the home of Akron's WAKR-TV from 1953 until 1967. WAKR-TV moved to Channel 23, and is now WVPX-TV.
On October 1, 2008 at 5:30 A.M., WNEO and WEAO changed on-screen branding to Western Reserve PBS, a part of the station's overall branding change to Western Reserve Public Media. The rebranding was done to make the station's identity better reflect the viewing area, and due to the fact that the combined WNEO/WEAO operations are broadcast on different cable channels. The studios of Western Reserve PBS, and the headquarters of Western Reserve Public Media, are located in Kent on the campus of Kent State University, northeast of Akron and roughly west of Youngstown.
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