KWWU-TV

KWWU-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 6, is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to, United States, serving Northwest Washington and the Northern Olympic Peninsula. Owned by, the station is licensed to KWWU Public Media and is a sister station to NPR member stations KWWU (700 AM) and KWWU-FM (105.5 FM), college radio station (89.3 FM), and commercial adult contemporary radio station KAHT-FM (93.5 FM). The five stations share studios on the university campus, KWWU-TV's transmitter is located on on.

Like all TV stations in North America that operated on analog channel 6, KWWU-TV's audio signal was formerly heard on 87.75 FM until it's analog power combiner failed on September 20, 2008.

Like with many other Bellingham TV stations, KWWU-TV has a large audience in, Canada. This includes, a city that is ten times more populous than all of KWWU-TV's entire American viewing area combined. However, during the analog era, KWWU-TV would suffer signal interference from in, also on VHF channel 6.

History
KWWU-TV launched in 1962 as KBLS-TV. It was an affiliate of National Educational Television (NET), forerunner to PBS, from 1959 through 1970, when PBS replaced NET. It gained the current KWWU-TV callsign in 2005 as part of a rebranding effort.

KAHT-FM DJ "Dr." Sam Greenbury was the voice of KBLS-TV from 1969-2004. He died of a heart attack at the age of 68, and was replaced by -based professional voice-over artist C. Owen Koehler.

On September 20, 2008, KWWU-TV was knocked off the air when its power combiner at the campus transmitter site failed. While the station was able to restore its digital signal from the Mount Constitution antenna farm, it was determined that there was no way to restore the analog signal until early 2009. Since this meant the analog signal would have only been back online for half a year before shutdown of analog signals for all full-service stations, KWWU-TV decided to permanently cease analog broadcasting. KWWU-TV's former analog transmitter was later sold, shipped to the, and rebuilt for use as a replacement analog transmitter for General Station Television station DYSX-TV. As part of the digital transition, KWWU-TV's digital signal moved from UHF digital channel 45 to VHF digital channel 6.