Connecticut Public Television  Connecticut Public Television (CPTV) is the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member network for the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is owned by Connecticut Public Broadcasting, a community-based non-profit organization that holds the licenses for all PBS member stations licensed in the state, and also owns the state's National Public Radio (NPR) member, Connecticut Public Radio (WNPR). Together, the television and radio stations make up the Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network (CPBN). CPBN is the state's only locally owned media organization producing TV, radio, print and Internet content for distribution across the state. Jerry Franklin is the President of CPTV. The organizational structure of CPTV also includes a Board of Trustees. The network co-produced the long-running children's television series, "Barney & Friends." The network's first station, WEDH in Hartford, signed on with a monochrome black and white transmitter in 1962, based out of facilities in the Trinity College library building. It was the fourth educational television station in New England, following WGBH-TV in Boston, WENH-TV in Durham, New Hampshire (now part of New Hampshire Public Television), and WCBB in Augusta, Maine (now part of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network). Originally a member of National Educational Television (NET), it joined PBS upon its launch on October 4, 1970. Originally known as Connecticut Educational Television, it became Connecticut Public Television in 1984. CPTV remained based in rented space at Trinity College until selling its headquarters back to the school for $10 million in 2002. In 2004, CPTV moved to a facility in the Asylum Hill neighborhood of Hartford. The infrastructure of CPTV was eventually upgraded through a partnership with Sony Systems Integration Center (SIC), which enabled the delivery of HD quality telecommunications to subscribers. In late 2019, CPTV requested to have WEDW's city of license changed from Bridgeport to Stamford. Since 1985, CPTV has received the following awards:    CPTV was the broadcast and web streaming home of UConn women's basketball from 1994 to 2012. The game broadcasts were the highest-rated locally produced programs in the PBS network. CPTV is a major producer of children's programming for the PBS network. Its best-known offering was "Barney & Friends". The character was discovered in 1991 when the daughter of CPTV executive Larry Rifkin bought a "Barney and the Backyard Gang" home video and was mesmerized by it. CPTV continued to distribute the show until 2006; it is now distributed by WNET in New York.