WETA is the flagship public media station in the nation’s capital, one of the top producers of new content for public television in the United States, and the leading provider of news and public affairs content in the public television system. Productions include PBS NewsHour, Washington Week, The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize and The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song; documentaries by filmmaker Ken Burns, including Hemingway, Country Music and The Roosevelts: An Intimate History; and projects from scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., including Finding Your Roots, Reconstruction: America After the Civil War and The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song.
 
In addition, WETA Station Relations is the liaison with the public television system for PBS KIDS series Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood and Donkey Hodie as well as lifestyle programs including America’s Test Kitchen, This Old House, Samantha Brown’s Places to Love and Pati's Mexican Table.

WETA serves audiences in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, and parts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia with five television channels, a classical music radio station and an array of digital platforms. Classical WETA, the exclusive home of classical music radio in the national capital area, features music, concerts and specials on-air and via classicalweta.org. WETA offers a variety of TV viewing options on WETA PBS, the station’s primary channel; WETA PBS Kids, providing a haven for young viewers; WETA UK, spotlighting British drama and comedy; WETA World, focusing on documentaries and public affairs programming; and WETA Metro, featuring PBS favorites with local flair.

The station’s local television productions celebrate the community, exploring the area’s resources, businesses, institutions and activities. Productions that spotlight the region’s people, places and cultural offerings include Politics and Prose Live, Looking for the Helpers, WETA Arts, WETA Around Town, Country Music in Washington and Washington in the 2000s.
 
WETA’s interactive educational initiatives include ReadingRockets.org, a multimedia project that helps struggling readers; ColorinColorado.org, a bilingual project that offers reading information in both Spanish and English; LDOnLine.org, the leading website on learning disabilities and ADHD for parents, teachers and students; AdLit.org, which supports the literacy of adolescent readers; BrainLine.org, the web’s most comprehensive source of brain injury information; and Start with a Book, developed to ward off the learning loss that many children experience over the summer.
 
The WETA studios and administrative offices are located in Arlington, Virginia. Sharon Percy Rockefeller is president and CEO. More information about WETA is available at weta.org. On social media, visit facebook.com/wetatvfm on Facebook or follow @WETAtvfm on Twitter.