![]() The station's transmitter was given to WTTW by the staff and management of the defunct KS2XBS, a pay television station operated by Zenith Radio Corporation on VHF channel 2 that was forced to shut down as a result of CBS owned-and-operated station WBBM-TV's relocation to that channel in July 1953. The WTTW call letters were chosen as the founders wanted the station to be Chicago's "Window To The World". It also had a 'working exhibit' facility at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago's Jackson Park. Harris were responsible for creating WTTW, which began its life with studios and offices in Chicago's Banker's Building. Daley Daley, Ryerson and businessman Irving B. Channel 11 came to life during the first year of the inaugural term of Mayor Richard J. ![]() The station was founded by a group of civic-minded Chicagoans, led by Inland Steel executive Edward R. WTTW first signed on the air on September 6, 1955, as a member station of National Educational Television (NET). The sale was approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on March 13, 2018, and was completed on April 20. On December 7, 2017, Window to the World Communications announced that it was seeking to purchase former fellow PBS member station WYCC from the City Colleges of Chicago in a move that would put WYCC and WTTW under one corporate umbrella. WTTW, along with PBS Wisconsin flagship station WHA-TV in Madison, Wisconsin, serve as default PBS member stations for Rockford as that market does not have a PBS station of its own both stations are available in that market on local cable providers. WTTW is one of two PBS member stations serving the Chicago market, alongside Gary, Indiana–licensed WYIN (channel 56). ![]() WTTW also owns and operates The Chicago Production Center, a video production and editing facility that is operated alongside the two stations. The two stations share studios in the Renée Crown Public Media Center, located at 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue (adjacent to the main campus of Northeastern Illinois University) in the city's North Park neighborhood its transmitter facility is atop the Willis Tower on South Wacker Drive in the Chicago Loop. Owned by not-for-profit broadcaster Window to the World Communications, Inc., it is sister to commercial classical music radio station WFMT (98.7 FM). WTTW (channel 11) is a PBS member television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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