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WTTW (Channel 11) is the Chicago, Illinois, member station of the Public Broadcasting Service. The station began broadcasting in 1955 and is owned and operated by Window to the World Communications Inc. (Window to the World), a not-for-profit broadcasting entity. WTTW continues to broadcast its educational and informational programming in part because of the continued support of its viewers and funding by other not-for-profit organizations such as the Corporation For Public Broadcasting. WTTW also owns and operates "The Chicago Production Center," a video production and editing facility, and a classical music radio station WFMT located at 98.7FM.

WTTW distributes The McLaughlin Group and Lamb Chop's Play Along to public television stations independently of PBS.

Furthermore, WTTW produces the music program Soundstage for PBS.

WTTW was the original airer of the hit cooking show by Alton Brown, Good Eats. WTTW also produced The Frugal Gourmet with Jeff Smith in the 1980s.

WTTW also produces the news magazine and analysis program Chicago Tonight, hosted by Phil Ponce. The program began as a half-hour panel interview program with local broadcast journalist John Callaway, but was later expanded to an hour with the addition of arts and restaurant reviews and other features. Until December 2005, Chicago Tonight was also hosted by Bob Sirott, who had previously worked as a disc jockey and a reporter/anchor with WBBM-TV, WMAQ-TV and WFLD-TV.

Hijack

On November 22, 1987 at 11:00pm Central Standard Time, WTTW's broadcast signal was hijacked by an unknown person wearing a Max Headroom mask during a telecast of the Doctor Who serial Horror of Fang Rock for about 90 seconds. This was the second incident that night involving the interruption of a television station's broadcast signal. Approximately two hours prior to the WTTW incident, another Chicago television station, WGN-TV, had its broadcast hijacked by the same Max Headroom masked person during the 9 O'Clock News sports report. WTTW, which maintains its transmitter atop the Sears Tower, found that its engineers were unable to stop the hijacker because at the time there were no engineers on duty at the Sears Tower. Also, the station's master control center was unable to contact its transmitting equipment remotely to switch the STL (Studio To Transmitter Link), unlike their counterparts at WGN-TV, who were able to thwart the intruder by switching their John Hancock Center transmitter STL remotely within seconds.

See also

• Chicagoland Television Stations

External links

• WTTW-TV Channel 11 Chicago Official Website
• WFMT-FM 98.7FM Chicago Official Website
• The Chicago Production Center
• Public Broadcasting Service Official Website
• Public-domain video of WTTW-TV Channel 11 broadcast signal being hacked available at TVParty.com
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• PBS member stations