![]() The WTTW call letters were chosen as the founders wanted the station to be Chicago's "Window To The World". It also had a 'working exhibit' facility at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago's Jackson Park. Harris were responsible for creating WTTW, which began its life with studios and offices in Chicago's Banker's Building. Daley Daley, Ryerson and businessman Irving B. Channel 11 came to life during the first year of the inaugural term of Mayor Richard J. The station was founded by a group of civic-minded Chicagoans, led by Inland Steel executive Edward R. WTTW first signed on the air on September 6, 1955, as a member station of National Educational Television (NET). It is best known for being one of two TV channels in Chicago affected by the Max Headroom signal hijacking on November 22, 1987, along with independent TV station WGN-TV. The sale was approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on March 13, 2018, and was completed on April 20. On December 7, 2017, Window to the World Communications announced that it was seeking to purchase WYCC from the City Colleges of Chicago in a move that would put WYCC and WTTW under one corporate umbrella. WTTW, along with PBS Wisconsin flagship station WHA-TV in Madison, Wisconsin, serve as default PBS member stations for Rockford as that market does not have a PBS station of its own both stations are available in that market on local cable providers. WTTW is one of two PBS member stations serving the Chicago market, alongside Gary, Indiana–licensed WYIN (channel 56). ![]() WTTW also owns and operates The Chicago Production Center, a video production and editing facility that is operated alongside the three stations. The two stations share studios in the Renée Crown Public Media Center, located at 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue (adjacent to the main campus of Northeastern Illinois University) in the city's North Park neighborhood WTTW and WYCC share transmitter facilities atop the Willis Tower on South Wacker Drive in the Chicago Loop. ![]() Owned by not-for-profit broadcasting entity Window to the World Communications, Inc., it is sister to commercial classical music radio station WFMT (98.7 FM). WTTW (channel 11) is a PBS member television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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