Secondary PBS affiliates

[PDXREXX]

Here in Missoula, We Have KUFM (Primary) I'm not sure if you would call it a secondary but
we also get KSPS from Spokane via cable and Low Power analog translators

 

[mleach]

In the DC market there is also Northern Virginia's WNVT/WNVC ( though little PBS is on them )

I don't think they're PBS members anymore -- today they are known as "MHz", an ethnic programming service.

That is true and it has been a very long time since I had seen any PBS on either..then again I never was a big watcher of either anyway. Somewhat makes me wonder. If either WNVT or WNVC...really wanted to, could they have went down the commercial route? Not being a part of a network but perhaps one of these stations could had been the Northern Virginia version of Long Island's channel 55. Sure there are the lots of other DC commercial stations but many of them over the years tend to favor Maryland over Virginia. No problem covering the local Virginia stories but state news out of Richmond..sometimes they overlook it. But then again Northern Virginia is a quite different area ( such as politics for example ) than what exist in other parts of Virginia..well maybe Hampton Roads could be the exception there

 

[azumanga]

If either WNVT or WNVC...really wanted to, could they have went down the commercial route?

Depends on if they're on an educational license -- if so, they can't have ads (other than the "grant" ads before programs).

 

[dhett]

I guess you can now call KUAS 27 Tucson a secondary PBS member station. In the analog world, it was just a full-service repeater of KUAT 6, the primary PBS member station, filling in areas blocked by terrain from KUAT, as well as providing redundant service to most of the Tucson metro area.

Here is the lineup in the digital world:

KUAT (Primary)
* 6.1 PBS HD
* 6.2 V-Me (Spanish-language)
* 6.3 Create

KUAS (Secondary)
* 6.1 PBS HD (IDs as KUAT 6.1, rather than KUAS 27.1)
* 27.2 KUAT Kids
* 27.3 World

 

[Tim L]

Cleveland WVIZ-25 Akron/Canton/Youngstown WNEO-WEAO 45/49 (45/49 simulcast 100%)..Most markets that get 25 also either get 45 or 49 on Cable..Also, In Akron-Canton, a good antenna will get both 25 and 49.

Off-Topic Trivia:Channels 45 (WKST) and 49 (WAKR) were both ABC affiliates in the late 1950's and were listed in TV Guide at the same time..

 

[jegrant]

I think the MHZ Networks have come up with a really innovative idea for being a "second PBS" type station. IMO more stations could do this. And, they even have a prepackaged MHZ Worldview subchannel, ready to go.

 

[ansky212]

New York City - WNET 13 (Main), WLIW 21 (Secondary), WNJN 52 (Secondary), WNYE 25 (Secondary)

I don't think WNYE is really considered a PBS station anymore. They now go by "NYC TV".

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

Cleveland WVIZ-25 Akron/Canton/Youngstown WNEO-WEAO 45/49 (45/49 simulcast 100%).

Actually, WNEO/45 Alliance is the Youngstown-market half of "Western Reserve PBS", acting as Youngstown's primary (and only) PBS outlet. WEAO/49 Akron is firmly within the Cleveland market, acting as that market's secondary PBS station.

Technically, Alliance is in the Cleveland market...northeast of Canton...though A) WNEO's now-digital-only stick is in Salem, Columbiana County (Youngstown market) and B) I believe there is a very, very small sliver of Alliance in Mahoning County.

As you note, the WRPBS stations simulcast full-time, despite being split between two markets.

 

[KyDXIn]

Can someone give me a list of seconardy PBS affiliates?

Why were there so many secondary affiliates? I think here in Louisville, WKPC was initially a station for the local school system. Meanwhile, KET (Kentucky Educational Television) set up many transmitters throughout the state (including WKMJ-68 as their Louisville outlet). In the early days many times these stations had the same programming until videotape allowed them to timeshift programs.

I think in our local TV Guide, public television was listed as N.E.T. prior to it being called PBS. This would have been around 1968. Was this a feed of WNET?

 

[azumanga]

I think in our local TV Guide, public television was listed as N.E.T. prior to it being called PBS. This would have been around 1968. Was this a feed of WNET?

No -- NET was "National Educational Television", an educational / public network which was replaced by PBS in 1970. Prior to 1970, WNET was WNDT, until the owners of NET bough the station around that same time.

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

The aforementioned Western Reserve PBS was started - and is still run - by Northeastern Educational Television of Ohio, a consortium of three major local universities - the University of Akron, Kent State University and Youngstown State University.

(Bonus points for locals if you hear the voice of Cliff Baechle in your head when you read that last part.)

 

[KyDXIn]

I think in our local TV Guide, public television was listed as N.E.T. prior to it being called PBS. This would have been around 1968. Was this a feed of WNET?

No -- NET was "National Educational Television", an educational / public network which was replaced by PBS in 1970. Prior to 1970, WNET was WNDT, until the owners of NET bough the station around that same time.

Thanks for the info. Wow, I didn't know of the fiery history of NET until I checked out their wikipedia entry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Educational_Television

I knew as a youngster that I had seen the NET logo on Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.

 

[compubit]

Waco-Temple-Bryan has 3 PBS affiliates:

Waco/Temple: KWBU/34 & KNCT/46
College Station/Bryan: KAMU/15

Jim