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Full-power digital · channel 4 · PITTSBURGH, PA
| Facility ID | 41315 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | WQED MULTIMEDIA |
| Community of licence | PITTSBURGH, PA
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 40.44617, -79.96394 |
| Effective radiated power | 35 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 524.3 m above average terrain · non-directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | http://www.wqed.org/index_full.php |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | none |
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | yes |
Checked 2026-09-22 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| W03CD-D | 3 | LPD | FAIR PLAY BROADCASTING LLC |
| facility 795935 | 6 | LPD | |
| WIIC-LD | 10 | LPD | ABACUS TELEVISION, LLC |
| WBPA-LD | 12 | LPD | PMVG LPTV LLC |
| WINP-TV | 16 | DTV | ION TELEVISION LICENSE, LLC |
| WBYD-CD | 19 | DCA | BRIDGE NEWS LLC |
| WPGH-TV | 20 | DTV | WPGH LICENSEE, LLC |
| WPNT | 21 | DTV | WCWB LICENSEE, LLC |
| WTAE-TV | 22 | DRT | HEARST STATIONS INC. |
| WPXI | 23 | DTV | WPXI, LLC |
| WPDN-LD | 24 | LPD | WORD OF GOD FELLOWSHIP, INC. |
| KDKA-TV | 25 | DTV | CBS BROADCASTING INC. |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WQED | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WQED | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.