WVIZ/PBS signed on the air as the 100th noncommercial educational television station in the United States on February 7, 1965, with studios in Cleveland's Max Hayes Trade School. The station, now located at the Idea Center at Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland, is licensed to ideastream. WVIZ/PBS serves a 17-county Northeast Ohio market, which includes the metropolitan areas of Cleveland and Akron.