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WSIU-TV

Full-power digital · channel 8 · CARBONDALE, IL

What the FCC says

Facility ID4297
Licence statusLicensed and on air (code LIC)
LicenseeBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
Community of licenceCARBONDALE, IL
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.
Transmitter38.10306, -89.24444
Effective radiated power53 kW
Antenna height (HAAT)410.5 m above average terrain · non-directional

Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.

Can you receive it?

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.

Can an assistant read this station's website?

Websitehttp://www.wsiu.org/
AI crawlers blocked by name15
  • GPTBot
  • ChatGPT-User
  • CCBot
  • OAI-SearchBot
  • Google-Extended
  • anthropic-ai
  • Applebot-Extended
  • Bytespider
  • ClaudeBot
  • Claude-Web
  • cohere-ai
  • Diffbot
  • FacebookBot
  • omgili
  • PerplexityBot
Publishes /llms.txtno
Publishes /.well-known/aino
Structured data on the homepageyes

Checked 2026-09-11 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.

For an assistant

This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.

/api/station-readiness/WSIU-TVthis section, as JSON
/api/outlets?q=WSIU-TVthe facility record
POST /mcpMCP, 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.