22-629: Leatherstocking may refer to: The Leatherstocking Tales , a series of five novels by James Fenimore Cooper Leatherstocking (serial) , a serial movie Leather Stocking , silent short film Leatherstocking Council , council of the Boy Scouts of America in New York Leatherstocking Falls , a waterfall in Otsego County, New York Leatherstocking Creek ,
44-635: A creek in Otsego County, New York See also [ edit ] Central New York Region , formally called Central Leatherstocking Region Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Leatherstocking . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leatherstocking&oldid=1241022449 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
66-449: A failed attempt to sell WQED's auxiliary station, WQEX, in 1999. In 2002, WQEX's non-commercial educational status was removed; the station moved to a shopping format, first with America's Store and later with ShopNBC ; that in effect made WQEX a for-profit arm to generate revenue for channel 13. In November 2010, WQED agreed to sell WQEX to Ion Media Networks for $ 3 million. The sale was completed (after FCC approval) on May 2, 2011, when
88-469: A four-episode adaptation entitled Leatherstocking Tales (1979), which won one Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series and was nominated for another for writing. The main character's name is Natty Bumppo, though other nicknames appear. WQED (TV) WQED (channel 13) is a PBS member television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , United States. Owned by WQED Multimedia , it
110-454: A friend of President Harry S. Truman , recruited Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company attorney Leland Hazard to help get the station off the ground. Its greatest obstacle was Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Corporation , owners of radio station KDKA . Westinghouse wanted a TV station in the city to compete with the DuMont - owned-and-operated WDTV (which had a de facto monopoly in
132-469: A frontiersman known to European-American settlers as "Leatherstocking", "The Pathfinder", and "the trapper". Native Americans call him "Deerslayer", " La Longue Carabine " ("Long Rifle" in French), and "Hawkeye". The story dates are derived from dates given in the tales and span the period roughly of 1740–1806. They do not necessarily correspond with the actual dates of the historical events described in
154-495: A short-term cash infusion after DuMont investor Paramount Pictures vetoed a merger between DuMont and ABC , Westinghouse offered DuMont $ 10 million for WDTV in January 1955. It changed the station's call sign to KDKA-TV , making it a sister station of KDKA radio. DuMont, unable to obtain clearance in larger markets, was out of business by the end of 1956. Although KDKA-TV is now owned by Westinghouse successor Paramount Global ,
176-558: Is sister to public radio station WQED-FM (89.3). The two outlets share studios on Fifth Avenue near the Carnegie Mellon University campus and transmitter facilities near the campus of the University of Pittsburgh , both in the city's Oakland section. Established on April 1, 1954, WQED was the first community-sponsored television station in the U.S. and the country's fifth public television station. It
198-550: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Leatherstocking Tales The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of five novels ( The Deerslayer , The Last of the Mohicans , The Pathfinder , The Pioneers , and The Prairie ) by American writer James Fenimore Cooper , set in the eighteenth-century era of development in the primarily former Iroquois areas in central New York. Each novel features Natty Bumppo ,
220-554: The National Geographic Society . The programs won several Emmy and other awards, including Peabody Awards. Actor Michael Keaton , who worked behind the scenes on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood , went on to international fame. During its heyday, WQED supported a post-production office and editing facility in Los Angeles. Known as QED/West, the satellite edited much of WQED's national programming. During
242-527: The VHF band with Pittsburgh, and only Youngstown would end up as a UHF island. Westinghouse presented a compromise to the FCC, offering to share its proposed KDKA-TV with WQED on channel 13. Hazard found this unacceptable, and asked Westinghouse CEO Gwilym Price if he should give up his quest for public television. Price said that Hazard should keep fighting, promising Westinghouse support for WQED. Westinghouse donated
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#1732772428200264-623: The WQED headquarters throughout October 2018. The station's signal is multiplexed : On January 5, 2009, WQED launched Create on 13.2, replacing the standard-definition simulcast of WQED's main channel. WQED shut down its analog signal on VHF channel 13 on June 12, 2009, when full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts by federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 38 to VHF channel 13. WQED
286-489: The early 1990s, WQED faltered, as did many other PBS stations across the country, as the rapidly-changing media landscape shifted. The downturn was exacerbated by a scandal in which top executives were discovered to have been augmenting their income without informing the board of directors. The period was chronicled in Jerold Starr 's 2000 book, Air Wars: The Fight to Reclaim Public Broadcasting . Problems continued with
308-511: The extremes of society, these figures can serve as tools for the social and cultural exploration of historical events, without directly portraying the history itself. Several films have been adapted from one or more of this series of Cooper's novels. Some used one of Bumppo's nicknames, most often Hawkeye, to identify this character, e.g., in: Two Canadian TV series were based on the character of Leatherstocking: WQED (TV) Pittsburgh's Once Upon A Classic children's television series produced
330-700: The nation's sixth-largest television market), and was impatient with the freeze on new licenses. Although the corporation launched WBZ-TV in Boston in 1948 and purchased Philadelphia 's WPTZ-TV (now KYW-TV ) in 1952, it was unable to secure a TV-station license in its home market. When the freeze was lifted in 1952, the FCC granted station licenses to smaller cities (such as Steubenville and Youngstown, Ohio ; Wheeling and Clarksburg, West Virginia , and Johnstown , Altoona and Erie, Pennsylvania ) before granting more licenses in Pittsburgh. All those cities shared
352-617: The series, which discrepancies Cooper likely introduced for the sake of convenience. For instance, Cooper manipulated time to avoid making Leatherstocking 100 years old when he traveled to the Kansas plains in The Prairie . The Natty Bumppo character is generally believed to be inspired, at least in part, by the historic explorer Daniel Boone or the lesser known David Shipman . Critic Georg Lukacs likened Bumppo to Sir Walter Scott 's "middling characters; because they do not represent
374-605: The station retains a close relationship with WQED. WQED briefly shared channel 13 with WENS-TV in 1955, after a storm damaged the WENS-TV tower in Reserve Township , until the WENS-TV tower was repaired. WQED acquired the station and renamed it WQEX in 1959, using the construction permit it had acquired for channel 22 to launch WQEX on channel 16. The Commercial Radio Institute acquired the WENS-TV permit for channel 22, launching WPTT (now WPNT ) in 1978. The station
396-499: The station's call sign changed from WQEX to WINP-TV . WQED received $ 9.9 million in a 2017 spectrum auction , and would use the proceeds to pay down debt the station has carried since the 1990s. The Fred Rogers Studio, where Fred Rogers recorded his iconic television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood , is featured in the film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood with Tom Hanks playing Rogers. The cast and crew shot at
418-451: The tower it had purchased for the channel 13 license, enabling WQED to begin operations on April 1, 1954. The station's call letters are from the Latin phrase quod erat demonstrandum ("what was demonstrated"), commonly used in mathematics . Westinghouse soon had its Pittsburgh TV station. Knowing that DuMont needed WDTV's cash flow to get its programming cleared in larger markets and
440-541: Was briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network during the late 1950s, sharing the affiliation with KDKA-TV, WTAE-TV , and WIIC-TV (now WPXI ). From sign-on until its replacement by PBS in 1970, WQED was a National Educational Television member station. During its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, WQED supplied programming to PBS. For 15 years, WQED produced the National Geographic specials for
462-503: Was the brainchild of Pittsburgh mayor David L. Lawrence , who wanted 12 percent of U.S. TV stations licensed for non-commercial educational use. Despite the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) putting an indefinite freeze on new TV station licenses (due to the number of applications on file), the commission granted Lawrence a license if he could raise money to equip and operate the station. Lawrence,
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#1732772428200484-681: Was the first station to telecast classes to elementary school classrooms when Pittsburgh launched its Metropolitan School Service in 1955. The station has been the flagship for the shows Mister Rogers' Neighborhood , Once Upon A Classic , Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (a co-production with Boston 's WGBH-TV ; filmed in New York City ), and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (whose live-action scenes are filmed in Pittsburgh). A public television station
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