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PBS Subchannels: Create, World, V-Me, PBS Kids

Of those listed, OPB only carries PBS Create for half the day on one of their subchannels ("OPB Plus".)

Currently:
Code: 
10-01 OPB Widescreen Programme (KOPB-HD)
10-02 OPB (KOPB-SD) (this is what was broadcast over KOPB's NTSC channel, 
    sans Golden Hours on the SAP)
10-03 OPB Plus (PBS Create 0800-1759; regular OPB programmes 1800-0759)
10-04 OPB's FM radio programmes...
  Audio 01, KOPB-FM
   Audio 02, OPB Music 
    (the same thing as on KOPB-FM's secondary IBAC channel albeit with 
    noticeably higher fidelity; unfortunately this doesn't make up for the huge 
    amount of utter garbage they play--yes, about 80% of their jukebox consists of 
    local Oregon-based acts)
   Audio 03, simulcast of KMHD-FM (well, what's left of KMHD, anyways)

As far as I know this is state-wide, so the major channel will be different than in Portland but the minor channels are al the same.

Occasionally (particularly on the weekends) OPB Plus airs public affairs programming from Oregon Channel and the Oregon Public Affairs Network (and I believe is sourced from the ITFS service "Oregon Wireless Information Network" or informally "Oregon WIN" with which OPB is [naturally] involved.)

Before 2009 KOPB's ATSC mux was carried on channel 27, then was flash-cut to 10 during the Great American NTSC Kill-Off of 2009.

Pre-2008, Create used to be carried 24 hours on 10-03 and Oregon Channel used to be on 10-04, carrying tape of Oregon legislative sessions in the day and public affairs and news programming on late nights. KOPB-FM's main audio channel was originally implemented on 10-05 on an experimental basis, before the public affairs and news programmes were wrapped into 10-03 with PBS Create, and the legislative session coverage was dropped from OPB's programming entirely. Then the FM channels were moved to 10-04.

A simulcast of the then-OPB subsidiary Golden Hours Radio Reading Service was also carried as a tertiary (!) audio channel on 10-02 for a few months, but OPB then spun off GHRRS near the end of May 2008 for, as far as I am aware, still unknown reasons (and I even listened to their rather uneventful sign-off on the analogue SAP on channel 10 that night!)

Pre-2007, The OPB mux was as follows:
Code: 
10-01 PBS-HD
10-02 PBS Create (24h)
10-03 Oregon Channel

A simulcast of KOPB's NTSC programme was added to 10-02, and the other two minor channels were bumped one channel higher than they were previously.

All in all, it's been a rather busy 10 years for OPB.....
 
Gregg said:
Iowan tells us that one of the Quad Cities' two PBS stations, KQIN, signs off at Midnight! I really can't think of any other TV station that doesn't go 24/7 these days, except for some occasional transmitter maintenance. Even then I think most TV stations still send a feed to local cable systems even if their over the air signal signs off for a few hours early Sunday or Monday morning.

And by the way, I realize that WNET, NYC's primary PBS station, now calls its youth subchannel "13 Kids" not "PBS Kids" anymore. Since so many PBS stations do have a youth subchannel, I wonder why PBS discontinued the feed. Scores of PBS stations around the country now have to assemble their own line up of Teletubbies and Miya & Miguel.

I also wonder why New Hampshire PTV, which programs its own subchannel "Explore" sometimes runs kids shows on both its main channel and its subchannel. That doesn't make much sense. You'd think that between early morning and late afternoon, they'd make sure one channel or the other would have general programming and one for kids. That's the way WGBH always programmed Channel 2 and Channel 44 in Boston.


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Iowa Public Television shuts off the transmitters at midnight, but all of the subchannels are available 24/7 on Mediacom systems. Also, Numerous web sources say that PBS Kids will be on a .4 subchannel, but I don't see it and there is no indication of it on their website. It is most likely coming soon, but IPTV has made no official announcement.
 
KAET, Arizona PBS Phoenix, carries main PBS on it's .1, PBS Life on .2,
PBS World on .3, PBS Kids on .4, and classical audio from KBAQ on .5
with scenes of Arizona and community events......
 
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