BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Eastern BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20170312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20171105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170731T014916Z UID:EF21B428-6CED-11E7-8752-0050568D2FB3 DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20170815T180000 DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20170815T203000 DESCRIPTION:Please Join the Pittsburgh IEEE IAS/PES Joint Chapter for a pre sentation and tour of the WPXI Channel 11 Television Studio on Tuesday – 15AUG17. The WPXI Studio is located just North of Pittsburgh\, PA.\n\nTou r Presenter:\nOtto Schellin: Director of Engineering –WPXI Channel 11 Pi ttsburgh\, PA\n\nThe tour will start out with a light dinner and social fr om 6PM till about 7PM at the WPXI's community room. Then from 7PM till abo ut 8:30PM we will have an engineering tour of the WPXI facility consisting of an overview of the power station of the site. Then we will move onto h ow the television signals get generated and transmitted to the television tower about two miles away. The tour will also consist of viewing the stud io control room and how they direct the live on air personalities that you see every day\, as well as the videotaped programs that make up the Chann el 11 line up. We may even be lucky enough to have a surprise TV guest pop in for some Q&A.\n\nOn September 1\, 1957\, before it was WPXI\, Pittsbur gh's second commercial VHF station signed on as WIIC. The station's [const ruction permit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_permit#Broadcas ting) was originally issued by the [Federal Communications Commission](htt ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission) (FCC) in Jun e 1955 to WIIC Incorporated – a joint venture of the [Pittsburgh Post-Ga zette](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Post-Gazette)\, which owne d WWSW radio (970 AM\, now [WBGG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBGG_(AM)) )\, and Pittsburgh Radio Supply House\, the then-owners of [WJAS radio](ht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJAS) (1320 AM). Both radio stations had compe ted individually for the permit grant along with other applicants. [CBS](h ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS)\, which was looking to gain its own full -time affiliate in the market\, signed a contract with the then-unnamed ch annel 11 shortly thereafter. Before the ["freeze"](https://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission#Freeze_of_1948) on television sta tion licenses\, the two stations were competing for the channel 10 license originally assigned to Pittsburgh before the FCC reallocated the channels in 1952\, with channel 10 going to [Altoona](https://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/WTAJ-TV)\; the [Hearst Corporation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearst _Communications) (then-owners of [WCAE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPGP _(AM)) and eventual owners of [WTAE-TV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTAE -TV)) and two other companies were also applying for the channel 10 licens e.\n\nChannel 11\, however\, did not sign on for well over two years after its permit was granted. The primary reason for the delay was on the part of WENS-TV (channel 16\, now [WINP-TV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WINP- TV))\, whose application for the permit had been denied and later conteste d the FCC's original decision. In the interim\, CBS continued to have most of its programs cleared by [Westinghouse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W estinghouse_Broadcasting)-owned [KDKA-TV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KD KA-TV) (channel 2)\, at the time Pittsburgh's only commercial VHF station. When CBS decided to make KDKA-TV its full-time Pittsburgh affiliate\, NBC (who shared time on KDKA-TV with CBS\, [ABC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/American_Broadcasting_Company)\, and station founder [DuMont](https://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/DuMont_Television_Network) since its sign-on in 1949) reached a deal to affiliate with WIIC. Also\, as a condition of the licens e grant\, WJAS radio had to be sold\; NBC wound up purchasing that station in August 1957. The WJAS interests later divested their 50 percent share of WIIC to another local broadcaster.\n\n[Bill Cardille](https://en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/Bill_Cardille) signed the station on the air. In addition to Cardille\, five other announcers that were with the station when it launch ed in 1957 include Mal Alberts\, Bob Cochran\, Ed Conway\, Len Johnson and Mark Schaefer. Some of the first original programming to air on WIIC incl uded [Studio Wrestling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Wrestling) an d [Chiller Theatre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiller_Theatre_(Pittsbu rgh))\, both hosted by Cardille. Shortly after its sign-on\, WIIC was brie fly affiliated with the [NTA Film Network](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N TA_Film_Network)\, sharing the affiliation with KDKA-TV\, WTAE-TV\, and [p ublic television](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_broadcasting) stati on [WQED](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WQED_(TV)).\n\nDirections from Pit tsburgh: Take I-279 North about 2.0 miles and get off at the McKnight Road exit - immediately stay right for the stop sign at Evergreen Road. At the stop sign make a right and head up Evergreen Road for about 300 feet and make a sharp left into the WPXI Channel 11 parking lot. The sharp left is a bit hidden until you come up upon the WPXI Channel 11 Sign on your left\ , so keep your eyes open. If you pass up the entrance and come to another stop sign with a BP gas station on your right\, you went too far. Once you enter the WPXI parking lot\, head to the front of the building and park. Then go to the front of the building to sign in at the security desk.\n\nP DH's: If you would like to receive PDHs\, please bring a copy of this anno uncement to this meeting and please contact Dave Vaglia for verification o f your attendance. A non-Member who would like to receive PDHs is required to pay $10 to IEEE Pittsburgh Section. A Member who would like to receive PDH is required to show membership ID.\n\nSpeaker(s): Otto Schellin\, \, Otto Schellin\, \n\nAgenda: \nIEEE Meeting and Tour of WPXI Television Stu dio\n\n1. Date: Tuesday-15AUG17\n2. Time: 6PM to 8:30PM\nA. 6PM to 7:00PM Light Dinner in the WPXI community room\nB. 7PM to 8:30PM Tour of the powe r room\, control room\, and studio facility\n3. Location: WPXI Television Studio 4145 Evergreen Rd\, Pittsburgh\, PA 15214\n4. Attendance\\Cost: Fre e to IEEE members and Guests\n5. Guest Presenter: Otto Schellin - Director of Engineering\n\n4145 Evergreen Road\, Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, Unite d States\, 15214 LOCATION:4145 Evergreen Road\, Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, United States\, 15214 ORGANIZER:dobos.s.p@ieee.org SEQUENCE:10 SUMMARY:Tour of the Pittsburgh WPXI Television Station URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/46302 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><span style="font-family: times new roman\ ,times\; font-size: 12pt\;">Please Join the Pittsburgh IEEE IAS/PES Joint Chapter for a presentation and tour of the WPXI Channel 11 Television Stud io on Tuesday &ndash\; 15AUG17. The WPXI Studio is located just North of P ittsburgh\, PA. &nbsp\;</span></p>\n<p><span style="font-family: times new roman\,times\; font-size: 12pt\;">Tour Presenter:<br />Otto Schellin: &nb sp\;Director of Engineering &ndash\;WPXI Channel 11 Pittsburgh\, PA</span> </p>\n<p><span style="font-family: times new roman\,times\; font-size: 12p t\;">The tour will start out with a light dinner and social from 6PM till about 7PM at the WPXI's community room.&nbsp\; Then from 7PM till about 8: 30PM we will have an engineering tour of the WPXI facility consisting of a n overview of the power station of the site. Then we will&nbsp\; move onto how the television signals get generated and transmitted to the televisio n tower about two miles away.&nbsp\; The tour will also consist of viewing the studio control room and how they direct the live on air personalities that you see every day\, as well as the videotaped programs that make up the Channel 11 line up. We may even be lucky enough to have a surprise TV guest pop in for some Q&amp\;A.</span></p>\n<p>On September 1\, 1957\, bef ore it was WPXI\, Pittsburgh's second commercial VHF station signed on as <strong>WIIC</strong>. The station's <a class="mw-redirect" title="Constru ction permit" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_permit#Broa dcasting">construction permit</a> was originally issued by the <a title="F ederal Communications Commission" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fede ral_Communications_Commission">Federal Communications Commission</a> (FCC) in June 1955 to WIIC Incorporated &ndash\; a joint venture of the <em><a title="Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsb urgh_Post-Gazette">Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</a></em>\, which owned WWSW rad io (970 AM\, now <a title="WBGG (AM)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ WBGG_(AM)">WBGG</a>)\, and Pittsburgh Radio Supply House\, the then-owners of <a title="WJAS" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJAS">WJAS radio</ a> (1320 AM). Both radio stations had competed individually for the permit grant along with other applicants. <a title="CBS" href="https://en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/CBS">CBS</a>\, which was looking to gain its own full-time af filiate in the market\, signed a contract with the then-unnamed channel 11 shortly thereafter. Before the <a title="Federal Communications Commissio n" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission#F reeze_of_1948">"freeze"</a> on television station licenses\, the two stati ons were competing for the channel 10 license originally assigned to Pitts burgh before the FCC reallocated the channels in 1952\, with channel 10 go ing to <a title="WTAJ-TV" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTAJ-TV">Alt oona</a>\; the <a title="Hearst Communications" href="https://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Hearst_Communications">Hearst Corporation</a> (then-owners of <a title="WPGP (AM)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPGP_(AM)">WCAE</a> and eventual owners of <a title="WTAE-TV" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/WTAE-TV">WTAE-TV</a>) and two other companies were also applying for the channel 10 license.</p>\n<p>Channel 11\, however\, did not sign on for well over two years after its permit was granted. The primary reason for the delay was on the part of WENS-TV (channel 16\, now <a title="WINP-TV" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WINP-TV">WINP-TV</a>)\, whose applicat ion for the permit had been denied and later contested the FCC's original decision. In the interim\, CBS continued to have most of its programs clea red by <a title="Westinghouse Broadcasting" href="https://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Westinghouse_Broadcasting">Westinghouse</a>-owned <a title="KDKA-TV" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDKA-TV">KDKA-TV</a> (channel 2)\, at the time Pittsburgh's only commercial VHF station. When CBS decided to ma ke KDKA-TV its full-time Pittsburgh affiliate\, NBC (who shared time on KD KA-TV with CBS\, <a title="American Broadcasting Company" href="https://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company">ABC</a>\, and station f ounder <a title="DuMont Television Network" href="https://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/DuMont_Television_Network">DuMont</a> since its sign-on in 1949) rea ched a deal to affiliate with WIIC. Also\, as a condition of the license g rant\, WJAS radio had to be sold\; NBC wound up purchasing that station in August 1957. The WJAS interests later divested their 50 percent share of WIIC to another local broadcaster.</p>\n<p><a title="Bill Cardille" href=" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cardille">Bill Cardille</a> signed the station on the air. In addition to Cardille\, five other announcers that w ere with the station when it launched in 1957 include Mal Alberts\, Bob Co chran\, Ed Conway\, Len Johnson and Mark Schaefer. Some of the first origi nal programming to air on WIIC included <em><a title="Studio Wrestling" hr ef="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Wrestling">Studio Wrestling</a></ em> and <em><a title="Chiller Theatre (Pittsburgh)" href="https://en.wikip edia.org/wiki/Chiller_Theatre_(Pittsburgh)">Chiller Theatre</a></em>\, bot h hosted by Cardille. Shortly after its sign-on\, WIIC was briefly affilia ted with the <a title="NTA Film Network" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wi ki/NTA_Film_Network">NTA Film Network</a>\, sharing the affiliation with K DKA-TV\, WTAE-TV\, and <a title="Public broadcasting" href="https://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/Public_broadcasting">public television</a> station <a titl e="WQED (TV)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WQED_(TV)">WQED</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-IEG1957k_12-0" class="reference"></sup></p>\n<p><span style= "font-family: Calibri\; font-size: 10pt\;"><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman\,times\; font-size: 12pt\;">Directions from Pittsburgh: T ake I-279 North about 2.0 miles and get off at the McKnight Road exit - im mediately stay right for the stop sign at Evergreen Road. At the stop sign make a right and head up Evergreen Road for about 300 feet and make a sha rp left into the WPXI Channel 11 parking lot. The sharp left is a bit hidd en until you come up upon the WPXI Channel 11 Sign on your left\, so keep your eyes open. &nbsp\;If you pass up the entrance and come to another sto p sign with a BP gas station on your right\, you went too far. Once you en ter the WPXI parking lot\, head to the front of the building and park. The n go to the front of the building to sign in at the security desk.</span>< /span></p>\n<p><span style="font-family: times new roman\,times\; font-siz e: 12pt\;">PDH's: If you would like to receive PDHs\, please bring a copy of this announcement to this meeting and please contact Dave Vaglia for ve rification of your attendance. A non-Member who would like to receive PDHs is required to pay $10 to IEEE Pittsburgh Section. A Member who would lik e to receive PDH is required to show membership ID.</span></p>\n<p>&nbsp\; </p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p><strong><span style="text-decoration: und erline\;"><span style="font-family: Calibri\; font-size: medium\;">IEEE Me eting and Tour of WPXI Television Studio<br /></span></span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri\; font-size: medium\;"><br />1.&nbsp\; Date:& nbsp\;Tuesday-15AUG17<br />2.&nbsp\; Time: 6PM to 8:30PM <br />&nbsp\; &nb sp\;&nbsp\; A.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri\; font-size: medium \;">&nbsp\; 6PM to 7:00PM Light Dinner in the WPXI community room <br />&n bsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\; B</span><span style="font-family: Calibri\; font-size : medium\;">.&nbsp\; 7PM to 8:30PM Tour of the power room\, control room\, and studio facility<br />3.&nbsp\; Location: WPXI Television Studio <span style="margin: 0px\; font-family: 'Calibri'\,sans-serif\; font-size: 11pt \;">4145 Evergreen Rd\, Pittsburgh\, PA 15214<br />4.&nbsp\; Attendance\\C ost: Free to IEEE members and Guests<br />5.&nbsp\; <strong>Guest Presente r</strong>: <span style="font-size: 12pt\;">Otto Schellin</span></span></s pan><span style="font-size: 10pt\;"> - </span><span style="font-size: 10pt \;">Director of Engineering<br /><br /></span></p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR