WNED-TV Solves The Need For An Archive And Content Management Solution

WNED-TV, Buffalo, NY, is a station of the member-supported Western New York Public Broadcasting Association (WNYPBA), whose mission is to provide high quality programming and services that enlighten, inspire, entertain and educate.

As part of that mission, WNED-TV is committed to producing quality programs for local and national broadcast with an emphasis on programming that highlights the treasures of the local region. Recent productions have included Fort Niagara: Struggle for a Continent, A New Zoo for Buffalo, Saving a Landmark: The Darwin Martin House, Polonia: Western New York's Polish-American Legacy, and the Emmy-award winning Reading Rainbow.

WNED-TV serves the greater Buffalo and Toronto, Ontario, Canada markets with its analog and digital broadcast channels. Its analog signal also reaches down to the southern tier of New York state.

On the digital side, WNED transmits one HD channel and 2 SD channels. The HD channel takes its feed from PBS. One SD channel is a simulcast of the analog channel.

The second SD channel is ThinkBright TV, a lifelong learning channel that brings a diverse range of health, educational, parenting, community, science, nature and documentary programming to homes and schools. This channel was funded through a $2.5 million grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation to allow WNED to harness digital technology for this educational service, which WNED plans on taking state-wide.