WPBS-TV is licensed as St. Lawrence Valley Educational Television Council, Inc. and was founded in 1958 as a non-profit educational corporation established under an absolute Charter from the NYS Board of Regents. WPBS-TV serves approximately 2.2 million viewers in Northern New York and Eastern Ontario, Canada. WPBS-TV is a producer of local content, Northern New York's largest classroom, a vital community resource and is a distributor of national programs. Our Mission: To educate, inform and engage our two-nation region with exceptional and trusted content across multiple platforms. Our Vision: The premier provider of extraordinary public media that instills wonder and curiosity across generations and borders.