Мэриленд Мемлекеттік Телевидениесі

PBS member network serving Maryland, USA

Maryland Public Television (MPT) is the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member state network for the U. S. state of Maryland. It operates under the auspices of the Maryland Public Broadcasting Commission, an agency of the Maryland state government that holds the licenses for all PBS member stations licensed in the state. Studios are located in the unincorporated community of Owings Mills in northwestern Baltimore County. MPT operates six full power transmitters that cover nearly all of the state, plus Washington, D. C., and parts of Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.

WMPB (licensed to Baltimore) first signed on in 1969 as the first station of the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting; it gained satellite stations in Salisbury, Hagerstown, and Annapolis between 1971 and 1975, resulting in a formation of a statewide public television network. The network adopted its current name in 1984. Maryland Instructional Television (Maryland ITV), a division of the State Department of Education, was also housed at the network until 1991. On July 4, 1987, WFPT (licensed to Frederick) signed on to fill coverage gaps in the outer Washington market, while WGPT in Oakland began operations to cover the extreme west of the state, much of which previously had no local television service at all. About 1999, the network launched an afternoon Britcom programming block, Afternoon Tea, replacing children's programming. By 2009, MPT was airing kids' programming during the day on its MPT Select channel. In September 2015, as part of budget cuts, MPT outsourced its master control operations to Public Media Management—a joint venture of Boston PBS member WGBH and Sony Corporation.

MPT's stations shut down their analog signals on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital channel allocations post transition are as follows:
WMPB shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 67; the station's digital signal remained on its pre transition UHF channel 29, using virtual channel 67. WMPT shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 22; the station's digital signal remained on its pre transition UHF channel 42, using virtual channel 22. WCPB shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 28; the station's digital signal relocated from its pre transition UHF channel 56, which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog era UHF channel 28. WWPB shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 31; the station's digital signal remained on its pre transition UHF channel 44, using virtual channel 31. WGPT shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 36; the station's digital signal relocated from its pre transition UHF channel 54, which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog era UHF channel 36. WFPT shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 62; the station's digital signal remained on its pre transition UHF channel 28, using virtual channel 62.

As a part of the repacking process following the 2016–2017 FCC incentive auction, channels 38 through 51 were removed from television broadcasting. None of MPT's stations sold their allocations, but five of them moved channels within the UHF band: WMPT moved to channel 21, WMPB to channel 22, WWPB to channel 29, WGPT to channel 26, and WCPT to channel 16.

MPT joined the Baltimore market's ATSC 3.0 lighthouse station, hosted at WNUV, on June 24, 2021. In return, WMPT and WMPB hosts WNUV's main channel (54.1) to preserve coverage for existing ATSC 1.0 TV sets.

For 2022, MPT earned four Capital Emmy Awards out of 20 nominations across 13 categories in the region's 65th newly renamed Capital Emmy Awards ceremony held in June 2023. Winners included Outdoors Maryland, Maryland Farm & Harvest, and Artworks. MPT earned seven regional Emmys at National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for 2021 out of 22 nominations across 16 categories. Winners included Destination Maryland, Creatures of the Chesapeake, Maryland Farm & Harvest, Outdoors Maryland, and Artesanas. For 2020 MPT won seven regional Emmys at National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Winners included Chesapeake Beacons, Maryland Farm & Harvest, and Maryland Mystery Lady. For 2008, MPT received 14 Emmy Award nominations from the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS). MPT received Emmys for Eatin' Crabs Chesapeake Style, two awards for Bob the Vid Tech: The Mystery of the Missing Pizza and one for ArtWorks: Manuel Barrueco Special. For 2007, the station received 11 nominations and won 1 National Capitol Emmy including 3 nominations for their regional The War series and 5 nominations for Outdoors Maryland. Motorweek also received the Board of Governors Award. MPT received two 2008 CINE Golden Eagle Awards for The Transformation Age: Surviving a Technology Revolution with Robert X. Cringely, a coproduction of MPT/University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business, and Lethal Landscapes: Canvases of the Combat Artist.