menuHistorical Timeline of Fifty Years at WETA
Enjoy this step through time charting WETA's history from its founding in the 1950s as an educational television station, the addition of a public radio station, and evolution into a major national producer for PBS.
1957: Elizabeth Campbell
1958: Time for Science
1961: First Broadcast
1964: Move to Howard University
1967: Washington Week in Review
1969: Sesame Street Premieres
1973: Watergate
1974: Upstairs Downstairs Premieres
1976: MacNeil/Lehrer Report Premieres
1978: In Performance at the White House Premieres
1981: A Capitol Fourth Premieres
1985: Around Town Premieres
1988: WETA 90.9 Starts 24-Hour Programming
1990: The Civil War
1995: New Shirlington Building
1997: DTV Transmitter Activated
1999: Gwen Ifill joins Washington Week
2000: Mark Twain Prize
2002: WETA Launches Digital Channels
2006: WETA Guide Launches
2007: WETA 90.9 Changes to All Classical Format
2007: The War
2009: Washington Week Peabody Award
2010 VivaLaVoce Launches
