Photo: Courtesy of Detroit PBS
DETROIT, April 17, 2024 ~ Detroit Public Television, the community-owned and nonprofit media organization, announced plans Tuesday to move its headquarters back to the city of Detroit as part of a new community media campus in the Milwaukee Junction neighborhood.
The media organization, which has been around since 1955, is also changing its name to Detroit PBS, purchased a property at 234 Piquette Ave., between John R and Brush streets, where it will renovate and expand an existing building into a multimedia campus. This new venture will be home to Detroit PBS’ organizational headquarters, video production and broadcasts, 90.9 WRCJ radio production and broadcasts, art performances, a journalism hub, and community events space.
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April 17, 2024 ~ Rich Homberg, president and CEO of Detroit Public Television, talks to Paul W. about the nonprofit media organization rebranding and moving studios back to the city of Detroit.
(CONTINUED) “Our return to Detroit represents the culmination of more than a decade of commitment to Detroit, which we believe is The Most Important City in America,” said Rich Homberg, Detroit PBS’s President and CEO, in a press release. “We have been a leader in community engagement in the PBS system, and that is one of the reasons we have the most diverse viewership in the PBS system. The focus of our content and engagement starts in the city and then extends outward to the far reaches of Southeast Michigan, becoming a unifying force in the region.”
Detroit PBS expects to begin construction later this year, with an opening scheduled for the fall of
2026. This announcement comes nearly 20 years after the organization announced a
headquarters move to Wixom.
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