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Speaking of PBS stations, four California markets doesn't have a full power PBS stations.

Will these market ever build a full-power PBS outlet?

Even small markets like Eureka, and Redding has a PBS station,.

Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-SLO.
-has to rely on PBS from KQED and KOCE.

Bakersfield
-has to rely on PBS from KVPT

Palm Springs
-has to rely on PBS from KVCR

El Centro-Yuma
-has to rely on PBS from KPBS and KAET.
 
Bakersfield had the prize winning distinction of being the very last large per capita region in the country to not have a PBS affiliate available OTA. It wasn't until KVPT-Fresno built a long overdue translator down South to finally get Bakersfield and PBS on the map as far as OTA goes.

I suppose Santa Barbara technically now owns that prize since KCET dropped PBS this year and based on the reports I'm reading from the Greater Santa Barbara area, many are having a bear of a time pulling in KOCE. KCET has had translators in place for decades to serve that region. Fat lot of good that does for them now.
 
KPBS has been trying to build a full-service satellite station in Brawley (Yuma/El Centro market) for 15 years. Just yesterday they filed a petition for rule making to try to get the allotment changed from channel 26 to channel 41, since the FCC seems to have finally moved on their original filing.

If it ever gets built, I wonder if they'll give it the KQVO call sign.

- Trip
 
Robnoxious said:
Bakersfield had the prize winning distinction of being the very last large per capita region in the country to not have a PBS affiliate available OTA. It wasn't until KVPT-Fresno built a long overdue translator down South to finally get Bakersfield and PBS on the map as far as OTA goes.

I suppose Santa Barbara technically now owns that prize since KCET dropped PBS this year and based on the reports I'm reading from the Greater Santa Barbara area, many are having a bear of a time pulling in KOCE. KCET has had translators in place for decades to serve that region. Fat lot of good that does for them now.
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Regarding the Bakersfield market, Robnoxious is correct. But it should be noted that despite the late entry for a PBS OTA signal into that market, both KCET and KVPT had been available on cable there for decades. While that didn't do much for those relying on OTA for PBS programming, the Bakersfield market has traditionally had a higher-than-average cable adoption rate, and since a majority of viewers received programming via cable, PBS probably still maintained a decent viewership there anyway despite the late OTA availability.

And many years ago, KCET also instituted a low-power analog translator in the Bakersfield market--possibly even online before KVPT's (?) ...

Now with the loss of the PBS affiliation on Los Angeles' KCET, Fresno-based KVPT has the distinction of being the sole OTA PBS provider to the area.

-Wolf-
 
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