The station began broadcasting on June 8, , from the campus of Rhode Island College. Its analog transmitter was located on Neutaconkanut Hill in Johnston , until the FCC-mandated digital conversion in This translator was turned off in , largely because of the high penetration of cable in the state. In , what had become the Board of Regents for Education transferred the station to the Rhode Island Public Telecommunications Authority, a quasi-state agency.
According to a release announcing the decision, the state budget extended funding to the station until the end of the fiscal year on June 30, WSBE co-produced the nationally distributed Italian cooking show, Ciao Italia , since , with production on-site through The station's signal is multiplexed :. The old RCA transmitter developed a leak in the water cooling system. Due to the scarcity of parts, time required to repair two weeks minimum , cost, and the proximity to the original February 17 date for the analog shutdown , the station discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 36, at that time.
The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 21 on February 18, , [ 11 ] [ 12 ] using virtual channel Contents move to sidebar hide.
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