Editing WNET (section)

{{Short description|Television station in Newark, New Jersey}}
{{for|the television station in Providence, Rhode Island (1954–1955)|WNET (Rhode Island)}}
{{redirect-distinguish|WNTA-TV|WNTA}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign = WNET
| logo = WNET Thirteen 2022 logo.svg
| logo_upright = 1
| location = {{ubl|[[Newark, New Jersey]]|[[New York, New York]]}}
| country = US
| city = Newark, New Jersey
| branding = THIRTEEN
| digital = 12 ([[VHF]]), shared with [[WNDT-CD]]
| virtual = 13
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''13.1:''' [[PBS]]|'''13.2:''' [[PBS Kids]]}}
| owner = The WNET Group
| licensee = WNET
| airdate = {{Start date and age|1948|5|15|p=y|br=y}}
| callsign_meaning = [[National Educational Television]] (forerunner of PBS)
| sister_stations = [[NJ PBS]], [[WEER (FM)|WEER]], [[WLIW (TV)|WLIW]], [[WLIW-FM]], [[WMBQ-CD]], [[WNDT-CD]]
| former_callsigns = {{ubl|WATV (1948–1958)|WNTA-TV (1958–1962)|WNDT (1962–1970)}}
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 13 (VHF, 1948–2009)|'''Digital:''' 61 ([[UHF]], 1998–2009)|13 (VHF, 2009–2020)}}
| former_affiliations = {{ubl|[[Independent station|Independent]] (1948–1956; 1961–1962)|[[NTA Film Network]] (1956–1961)|[[National Educational Television|NET]] (1962–1970)}}
| erp = 6.5 [[kW]]
| haat = {{convert|507.8|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = 18795
| coordinates = {{coord|40|42|46.8|N|74|0|47.3|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| website = {{ubl|{{URL|https://www.thirteen.org/}} (station)|{{URL|https://www.wnet.org/}} (corporate)}}
}}
'''WNET''' (channel 13), branded on-air as '''Thirteen''' (stylized as '''THIRTEEN'''), is a primary [[PBS]] member television station licensed to [[Newark, New Jersey]], United States, serving the New York City area. Owned by The WNET Group (formerly known as the Educational Broadcasting Corporation and later as WNET.org),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1275018.pdf |title=FCC Consent to Assignment |website=fjallfoss.fcc.gov |access-date=March 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621071654/https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1275018.pdf |archive-date=June 21, 2018 |url-status=live  }}</ref> it is a [[sister station]] to the area's secondary PBS member, [[Garden City, New York]]–licensed [[WLIW (TV)|WLIW]] (channel 21), and two [[Class A television service|class A]] stations: [[WMBQ-CD]] (channel 46), and [[WNDT-CD]] (channel 14, which [[frequency sharing|shares spectrum]] with WNET). The WNET Group also operates New Jersey's PBS state network [[NJ PBS]], and the website NJ Spotlight through an outsourcing agreement.

WNET and WLIW share studios at [[One Worldwide Plaza]] in [[Midtown Manhattan]] with an auxiliary street-level studio in the [[Lincoln Center]] complex on Manhattan's [[Upper West Side]]; WNET's transmitter is located at [[One World Trade Center]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/8291/future-of-nyc-broadcast-tv-moving-to-1-wtc |title=Future of NYC Broadcast TV Moving to 1 WTC |last=Soseman |first=Ned |date=April 10, 2017 |website=thebroadcastbridge.com |access-date=March 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621070355/https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/content/entry/8291/future-of-nyc-broadcast-tv-moving-to-1-wtc |archive-date=June 21, 2018 |url-status=live  }}</ref>