SMALL (POP. UNDER 50,000) PLACES WITH STATE RUN PBS STATIONS

[firepoint525]

You also have to remember places in Georgia have bleed over from Tallahassee, Jacksonville, Chattanooga and Alabama stations as well as others.

Locations in Mississippi and Arkansas can probably receive channel 10 from Memphis with no trouble at all. Makes me wonder if such locations are also served by PBS stations from within their own states.

 

[azumanga]

Locations in Mississippi and Arkansas can probably receive channel 10 from Memphis with no trouble at all. Makes me wonder if such locations are also served by PBS stations from within their own states.

The Mississippi side is served by WMAV, the local Mississippi Public Broadcasting outlet in Oxford.

AETN in Arkansas has no local outlet close to the Memphis area; the Comcast system in West Memphis doesn't even offer it -- only WKNO.

 

[genius]

Try KENW here in New Mexico! A very small PBS station out of a small state university serving a very low populated area (Eastern NM).

 

[charlestondxman]

South Carolina has a lot of these. ETV started with the legacies in Charleston, Columbia and Greenville (Channels 7, 35 and 29 respectively), but then they added several stations.

WHMC TV and FM in Conway serves the Myrtle Beach area, and that signed on back when Conway was a small town outside Myrtle Beach.

You have Sumter, with less than 50,000 and a TV and FM, but that area has a lot of importance.

Tiny Allendale, a town of under 4,000, got a station in the late 1960s, but that station is the one that serves highly-populated Aiken and Augusta.

 

[Tim-In-Houston]

Locations in Mississippi and Arkansas can probably receive channel 10 from Memphis with no trouble at all. Makes me wonder if such locations are also served by PBS stations from within their own states.

The Mississippi side is served by WMAV, the local Mississippi Public Broadcasting outlet in Oxford.

Their coverage is overlapped with WMAE-Booneville, as well, which travels well north into the Jackson, TN area.

All but one of MPB's transmitters are located in town with less than 50K population.

Oxford (~14,000), Booneville (~8000), Mississippi State/Starkville (~18,000 university students + ~24,000 city), Meridian (~38,000), Greenwood (~15,000), Bude (~1,000) and Biloxi (~44,000).

Jackson, with its ~173,000 population is the largest.

 

[rwells2265]

Locations in Mississippi and Arkansas can probably receive channel 10 from Memphis with no trouble at all.  Makes me wonder if such locations are also served by PBS stations from within their own states.

The Mississippi side is served by WMAV, the local Mississippi Public Broadcasting outlet in Oxford.

AETN in Arkansas has no local outlet close to the Memphis area; the Comcast system in West Memphis doesn't even offer it -- only WKNO.

AETN's closest transmitter to Memphis is KTEJ in Jonesboro (former analog Ch. 19) ... their tower is west of town, and fairly tall (I could see the strobes from both it, and the stick for KAIT-8 at night from my dorm window at ASU back in the mid '80s).   Back then, both Jonesboro and Ark. State's cable systems carried not just KTEJ/AETN but also WKNO. 

Can't speak for KTEJ's digital coverage, but I'm surprised West Memphis doesn't offer AETN.  From my observation, it seems that it's the norm for a cable system - at least in areas with statewide Public TV networks - to have it, regardless of location in the state. 

FWIW, West Memphis did have KAIT/Jonesboro (ABC, analog 8 ) on its system, as of 2006. 

--Russell

 

[KeithE4]

...the 2 PBS stations owned by Milwaukee Technical College cover Milwaukee... They were also one of the early duopolies in the 60's, since it required a waiver in those days (otherwise, WMVT would have been reallocated for commercial use).

I think where duopolies of educational stations are concerned, there's some kind of exemption -- cases in point include(d) Boston (WGBH and WGBX), Pittsburgh (WQED and WQEX), Philadelphia (WHYY and WUHY) and San Francisco (KQED and KQEC).

Chicago also had one between 1965 and 1974 - WTTW/11 and WXXW/20, thanks to Westinghouse donating their long-dormant CP for WIND-TV to Channel 11.

New York also has a duopoly - WNET/13 and WLIW/21 have been co-owned for several years.