WXXI-TV

PBS member station in Rochester, New York

WXXI TV (channel 21) is a PBS member television station in Rochester, New York, United States. It is owned by the WXXI Public Broadcasting Council alongside NPR members WXXI (1370 AM), WXXI FM (105.9), and WXXO (91.5 FM). The three outlets share studios at 280 State Street near downtown Rochester; WXXI TV's transmitter is located on Pinnacle Hill on the border between Rochester and Brighton.

WXXI TV's national public television productions include A Warrior in Two Worlds, Echoes from the Ancients, Out of the Fire, Albert Paley: Man of Steel, Biz Kid$, and Flight to Freedom. WXXI TV also produced Assignment: The World, a weekly current events program for schools, which aired on approximately 100 public television stations nationwide, and was the nation's longest running instructional television program. Due to funding cuts, it was canceled and its last episode aired on May 23, 2013.

ThinkBright, broadcast from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m. on 21.3 until the digital transition.

WXXI TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 21, 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 signal remained on its pre transition UHF channel 16, using virtual channel 21. As part of the SAFER Act, WXXI TV kept its analog signal on the air until July 10, 2009, to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters. WXXI TV had been awarded a $202,498 federal contract for an outreach initiative to help Rochester's over the air viewers prepare for the digital transition.