Last places to get PBS OTA (or have none)

[dave73]

It took me some time to find the thread, but this topic was pretty much covered recently in http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=212894.0.

I see Scott Fybush even mentioned our Ohio examples, which I mentioned upthread - Lima (WBGU Bowling Green nearby, but not in market) and Zanesville (WOUC Cambridge nearby, but not in market).

Has anyone done a "markets with more than one PBS affiliate" thread yet? We have several here in Ohio, including in the Cleveland market...

The largest markets are primarily the ones that can support more than 1 PBS station. I haven't seen a thread on that topic yet, but it's a possibility it'll come up. Other than this thread, the only other ones I saw were markets without a PBS station, & markets first NCE station (since prior to 1970, almost all NCE stations affiliated with NET, National Educational Television, the predecessor to PBS).

 

[KML0224]

Boston/Worcester is one of those:

WGBH-TV channel 2 Boston
WGBX-TV channel 44 Boston
WENH-TV channel 11 Durham, NH [New Hampshire Public Television]
WEKW-TV channel 52 Keene, NH [New Hampshire Public Television]

 

[ShawnHill1]

It took me some time to find the thread, but this topic was pretty much covered recently in http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=212894.0.

I see Scott Fybush even mentioned our Ohio examples, which I mentioned upthread - Lima (WBGU Bowling Green nearby, but not in market) and Zanesville (WOUC Cambridge nearby, but not in market).

Has anyone done a "markets with more than one PBS affiliate" thread yet? We have several here in Ohio, including in the Cleveland market...

The largest markets are primarily the ones that can support more than 1 PBS station. I haven't seen a thread on that topic yet, but it's a possibility it'll come up. Other than this thread, the only other ones I saw were markets without a PBS station, & markets first NCE station (since prior to 1970, almost all NCE stations affiliated with NET, National Educational Television, the predecessor to PBS).

I'm almost 100 percent certain that we once did a thread of markets with multiple PBS stations, at least a couple of years ago.

 

[e-dawg]

My small college town of Pullman, WA (25,000 population) has 3 PBS stations, 1 KWSU Pullman, 1 KSPS Spokane, and 1 KUID (Idaho Public Televisions) Moscow, ID.

 

[Mr Tony]

It took me some time to find the thread, but this topic was pretty much covered recently in http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=212894.0.

A one-station DMA that was mentioned in that thread (but, I think, not this one) is Mankato--which apparently gets PBS out of Austin (KSMQ) and/or the Twin Cities (KTCA and maybe KTCI).

Mankato gets 3 PBS stations on charter
KTCA Minneapolis
KSMQ Albert Lea/Austin
KTCI Minneapolis

HickoryTech only gives them the Minneapolis stations

 

[azumanga]

Florida has five markets served by more than one PBS station:

Pensacola / Mobile: WSRE and WEIQ (latter an APT station serving Mobile)
Tallahassee: WFSU and WABW (latter a GPTV station)
Jacksonville: WJCT and WXGA (latter a GPTV station serving Waycross and Brunswick)
Tampa: WEDU and WUSF
Miami: WPBT and WLRN

Until last year, Orlando had three -- WBCC, WMFE and WDSC; that is, until Daystar "bought" WMFE-TV in a deal that has since unraveled, and WDSC dumped PBS over state budget cuts for public stations, leaving WBCC as the lone station. This will change later in the year when the University of Central Florida takes over WMFE-TV, bringing PBS back to that station.

 

[RadioDaze]

Florida has five markets served by more than one PBS station:

Pensacola / Mobile: WSRE and WEIQ (latter an APT station serving Mobile)
Tallahassee: WFSU and WABW (latter a GPTV station)
Jacksonville: WJCT and WXGA (latter a GPTV station serving Waycross and Brunswick)
Tampa: WEDU and WUSF
Miami: WPBT and WLRN

Until last year, Orlando had three -- WBCC, WMFE and WDSC; that is, until Daystar "bought" WMFE-TV in a deal that has since unraveled, and WDSC dumped PBS over state budget cuts for public stations, leaving WBCC as the lone station. This will change later in the year when the University of Central Florida takes over WMFE-TV, bringing PBS back to that station.

Though it's located in the Gainesville/Ocala market, WUFT, channel 5, is seen in parts of the Jacksonville market (and I think it's on cable there).

Charlotte is served by three in-market PBS signals:

WNSC, channel 30 (ETV station with some local origination from its Rock Hill, SC studios)
WTVI, channel 42 (the only PBS station in the Carolinas not affiliated with either state system)
WUNG, channel 58 (UNC-TV transmitter)


Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News has two:
WHRO, channel 15
WUND, channel 2 (UNC-TV transmitter whose city of license was moved from Columbia, NC-Greenville-New Bern-Jacksonville market--to Edenton, NC in the Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News market)

The Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville market includes:

UNC-TV (from WUNF, channel 33 (Asheville) and WUNW, channel 27 (Canton) )
ETV Upstate (WRET, channel 49 (Spartanburg), which breaks away from main ETV network on occasion
ETV (WNTV, channel 29 (Greenville) and WNEH, channel 38 (Greenwood) )
WUGA, channel 32 in Toccoa, GA, which now airs some PBS programming

I'm sure there are many parts of the market that can't get two services (and likely none that can get all four)

 

[dave73]

It took me some time to find the thread, but this topic was pretty much covered recently in http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=212894.0.

A one-station DMA that was mentioned in that thread (but, I think, not this one) is Mankato--which apparently gets PBS out of Austin (KSMQ) and/or the Twin Cities (KTCA and maybe KTCI).

Mankato gets 3 PBS stations on charter
KTCA Minneapolis
KSMQ Albert Lea/Austin
KTCI Minneapolis

HickoryTech only gives them the Minneapolis stations

You actually pulled up the one where markets don't have a PBS station. That was not the one with multiple PBS stations in 1 market.

 

[joebtsflk1]

Canon City-Florence-Penrose Colorado, in the Colorado Springs/Pueblo market. There's about 30,000 people within about a five mile radius of our main translator site, which offers only ABC-CBS-NBC. It may have received marginal service directly from KTSC-8 from Pueblo when its transmitter was located in Pueblo. With DTV, channel 8 moved to Cheyenne Mtn in the Springs, and it was PBS sunset for Fremont County.