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States with statewide PBS coverage

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e-dawg

Alabama- APT
Alaska - Alaska One (execpt Anchorage)
Arkansas =- AETV
Colorado - Rocky Mountain PBS
Connecuit - CPTV
Georgia - GPTV
Hawaii - Hawaii PBS
Idaho Idaho Public Television
Iowa - Iowa Public Television
Kentucky - KET
Louisana - LPB (execpt for New Orleans)
Maine - Maine Public Broadcasting
Maryland - Maryland Public Broadcasting
Mississippi - Mississippi ETV
Montana - Montana PBS
Nebraska - NET
North Carolina - UNC-TV
North Dakota - Pairie Public Television
New Hampshire - NHPTV
New Jersey - NJN
Olkahoma - OETA
Oregon - OPB / SOPTV
Rhlode Island - Rholde Island PBS
South Carolina - SCPTV
South Dakota - SDPTV
Vermont - VPTV
West Virgina- WVPTV
Wisconsin - WPTV (Execpt for Milwaukee)
Wyoming - Wyoming PBS
 
Since the Salt Lake City market covers the entire state, you can add KUED Salt Lake City to the list. In Arizona, KAET has translators all around the state, except for the Tucson area, so that's an almost.
 
Rhode Island is on a technicality, only because the state is so small. That "network" only has WSBE-TV channel 36 of Providence. Here in Connecticut, the coverage is barely statewide, since WEDY-TV channel 65 of New Haven is a full-powered licensee, but runs their station on flea power (with the signal barely leaving the New Haven city limits). Also, while Maine has nearly statewide coverage now, that wasn't always the case. Until the early 1990s, WCBB-TV channel 10 of Augusta was it's own PBS station run by Colby, Bates and Bowdoin Colleges, hence W-C-B-B. There was also a time when WMEA-TV channel 26 of Biddeford was seen as a secondary PBS outlet separate from WCBB, since Biddeford and Augusta are both a part of the Portland/Poland Spring DMA.
 
WMVT here in Milwaukee carries some programming from WPT. They usually air it at night or on the weekends, espically the Badgers hockey and football.
 
Denver has a tiny exception with KBDI being a second PBS station along with KRMA(Rocky Mountain PBS).


I should add that Rocky Mountain PBS is relatively new; KRMA only adapted the name about ten years ago(right after I left the Mile High City). They didn't have statewide coverage until KTSC in Pueblo joined them circa 2000.
 
WGBY-TV/DT in Springfield may have common ownership with WGBH-TV/DT of Boston but it IS NOT a satellite of WGBH!
 
Delaware should make the list, too. WHYY-TV, with studios in Wilmington (and a transmitter in Pa.) has a translator in Southern Delaware and total statewide coverage on cable.
 
WHYY-TV operates WDPB-TV channel 64, licensed to Seaford, DE. For all I know, I think it's just a satellite of WHYY-TV. Does WHYY really have anything in Wilmington proper? I know they have their studio in Philadelphia on 6th Street (Independence Mall West).
 
e-dawg said:
Arkansas =- AETV
Georgia - GPTV
Mississippi - Mississippi ETV
South Carolina - SCPTV
Click to expand...

In 2004, GPTV changed its name to GPB, its 'parent' organization (ditto for the radio stations, formerly GPR).

Arkansas' network is actually AETN - Arkansas Educational Television Network.

Mississippi's network was known as Miss. ETV for years, but recently changed to MPB ... not unlike the situation here in Georgia. (The most recent logo from the ETV days, incidentally, looked eerily similiar to that of ENRON)

And South Carolina has never used the word "Public" in any of its noncommercial broadcasting. It's always been ETV ... and the network is known as SCETV (I hate they got rid of their longtime logo - the letters S and C melded together ... a very cool ID, imho). Their radio network was called South Carolina Educational Radio ... but was recently changed to ETV Radio ::)

(/splitting hairs)

--Russell
 
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