WMVS - Local Productions

Local Productions

The station's annual fundraising auction in May (which started in 1969, and is one of the oldest station auction campaigns in existence) has been broadcast in HD since 2003, along with all of the station's weekly local programs, which include Black Nouveau, ¡Adelante! (a Spanish language program with English subtitles), I Remember, Outdoor Wisconsin, and Interchange. Tracks Ahead, which premiered in 1990, also is produced in HD, and is syndicated by MPTV to air on HDNet, Mark Cuban's HD-only cable channel.

The station also distributes their programs on Time Warner's video on demand service, Wisconsin On Demand 1111 .

WMVS began broadcasting on October 28, 1957, as the 28th Educational television station in the United States and the second in Wisconsin, after WHA-TV in Madison. Among the strongest and earliest backers of the creation of Milwaukee Public Television (over the opposition of at least some of the commercial stations) was Frank Zeidler, Milwaukee's mayor from 1948 to 1960.

MPTV/WMVS/WMVT also has the unique distinction of having the channel numbers for both of their stations within their studio's address number, which is in Milwaukee's street numbering system (most television or radio stations with their channel number as an address use a vanity address/street not within a community's numbering system). The studios are in the Continuing Education Center of the MATC Downtown Campus, at 1036 North 8th Street.