Idaho Public Television

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Idaho Public Television
Type Non-commercial educational broadcast television network
BrandingIdaho Public Television PBS
Country
United States
First air date
September 6, 1965;59 years ago (1965-09-06)
AvailabilityStatewide Idaho
TV stationssee § Stations
Broadcast area
Statewide Idaho
OwnerState of Idaho
ParentState Board of Education
Affiliation(s) PBS
Former affiliations
KUID-TV: NET (1965–1970)
Official website
 www.idahoptv.org

Idaho Public Television (also known as IdahoPTV and Idaho Public TV) is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member network serving the U.S. state of Idaho. Consisting of five television stations, it is operated and funded by the Idaho State Board of Education, an agency of the Idaho state government that holds the licenses to all PBS member stations in the state. The network is headquartered in Boise, with satellite studios at the University of Idaho in Moscow and Idaho State University in Pocatello.

Contents

Funding for Idaho Public Television comes from three major sources. Approximately 65% of funding comes from private contributions and an annual grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 31% is provided by the State of Idaho. 4% is provided by the Federal Government. [1]

Broadcast and online programs produced by Idaho Public Television include Outdoor Idaho, Idaho Reports, Idaho Experience, Dialogue, Idaho in Session, Science Trek and The 180 with Marcia Franklin.

History

The network's first station, KUID-TV, signed on from the University of Idaho campus in September 1965. [2] [3] [4] KBGL-TV signed on in July 1971 from Idaho State University in Pocatello, followed that December by KAID-TV in Boise, licensed to Boise State University. After a decade, KBGL changed its call letters to KISU-TV in 1981. The three stations shared many programs, but were largely operated independently at first. However, in 1981, two KUID-produced documentaries—one about logging practices, another about lead exposure—caused such an outcry that the state legislature yanked nearly all funding for public television. [5] Citing budget restrictions in early 1981, the state legislature cut 90% of the state funding for public television, [6] and the stations relied on federal funding and private donations. [7]

A year later, the legislature ordered the merger of the three stations into a single network. [8] [9] The licenses for all three stations were transferred to the state board of education. [10] Two other stations were added in 1992 at Coeur d'Alene and Twin Falls, the respective cities of North Idaho College and the College of Southern Idaho.

In 2001, Idaho PTV began broadcasting its HD channel, KAID HD, using the default PBS HD schedule. Once the digital switchover had occurred in July 2009 and after a two-year acclimation process, the main HD channel became the home of the regular IdahoPTV schedule in August 2011, and the second standard definition channel was converted from the regular IdahoPTV schedule into a "Plus" subchannel, featuring an alternate schedule of programming. [11]

Stations

Combined, the five stations and their extensive translator network reach almost all of Idaho, as well as parts of Washington, Montana, and Oregon. The north Idaho stations of Coeur d'Alene and Moscow are in the Pacific Time Zone, while the south Idaho stations of Boise, Twin Falls, and Pocatello are in the Mountain Time Zone.

Station City of license 1 Channels
(RF / VC)		First air date Call letters'
meaning 		ERP HAAT Facility ID Transmitter coordinatesPublic license information
KAID
(Flagship station)		 Boise 21 (UHF)
4		December 31, 1971(52 years ago) Ada County, Idaho
(county where Boise is based)		725  kW 858 m (2,815 ft)62442 43°45′20.8″N116°5′57″W / 43.755778°N 116.09917°W / 43.755778; -116.09917 (KAID) Public file
LMS
KCDT Coeur d'Alene 18 (UHF)
26		September 22, 1992(32 years ago)"Coeur D'Alene Television"54.7 kW
50 kW (CP)		465 m (1,526 ft)62424 47°43′53.6″N116°43′50.6″W / 47.731556°N 116.730722°W / 47.731556; -116.730722 (KCDT) Public file
LMS
KIPT Twin Falls 22 (UHF)
13		January 1992(32 years ago)2"Idaho Public Television"77.98 kW181.9 m (597 ft)62427 42°43′45.9″N114°24′56.5″W / 42.729417°N 114.415694°W / 42.729417; -114.415694 (KIPT) Public file
LMS
KISU-TV3 Pocatello 17 (UHF)
10		July 7, 1971(53 years ago) Idaho State University 172 kW464.8 m (1,525 ft)62430 43°30′3.6″N112°39′43.9″W / 43.501000°N 112.662194°W / 43.501000; -112.662194 (KISU-TV) Public file
LMS
KUID-TV Moscow 12 (VHF)4
12		September 6, 1965(59 years ago) University of Idaho 78 kW339.7 m (1,115 ft)62382 46°40′54″N116°58′17″W / 46.68167°N 116.97139°W / 46.68167; -116.97139 (KUID-TV) Public file
LMS
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Digital television

Subchannels

The digital signals of IdahoPTV's stations are multiplexed:

Idaho Public Television multiplex [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
xx.1 1080i 16:9 IDPTVHD PBS
xx.2PLUSIdahoPTV Plus
xx.3480iLEARN Create
xx.4WORLD World Channel
xx.5KIDS PBS Kids

Analog-to-digital conversion

IdahoPTV's stations ended regular programming on their analog signals on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate, with the exception of KAID, which was part of the Analog Nightlight Program and was shut off on June 15, 2009. [17] The station's digital channel allocations post-transition are as follows: [18]

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  13. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KCDT
  14. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KIPT
  15. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KISU
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  18. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
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