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Broadcast Media Production and DistributionMichigan, United States51-200 Employees
Detroit PBS operates as a viewer-supported PBS member station serving the nation's 11th largest television market. The organization runs its services from Wixom, Michigan, including a Midtown Detroit TV studio in partnership with Wayne State University and a Detroit Bureau located in the Detroit Historical Museum. It also manages WRCJ 90.9 FM, a listener-supported classical and jazz public radio station licensed to Detroit Classical and Jazz Educational Radio, LLC, with oversight by the Detroit Public Media Board of Trustees. Detroit PBS offers ten hours of PBS KIDS programming each weekday, alongside national and international news, PBS favorites, and classic films. Its digital subchannels expand public television with Michigan Learning Channel, WORLD, Create, and Detroit PBS KIDS programming. Licensed as WTVS-Channel 56 and operating as Detroit PBS, Channel 56, and WTVS, the nonprofit is based in Wixom, Michigan and emphasizes local arts, culture, news, and educational outreach within Detroit's diverse communities.