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IdahoPTV

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Affiliations
  
PBS

Transmitter power
  
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Digital: see table below

Owner
  
State of Idaho (Idaho State Board of Education)

Headquarters
  
Boise, Idaho, United States

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Idaho Public Television (Also known as IdahoPTV and Idaho Public TV) is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member network serving the state of Idaho. It comprises five television stations, operated and funded by the Idaho State Board Of Education, an agency of the Idaho state government that holds 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.

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Funding for Idaho Public television comes from three major sources. 63% of funding comes from private contributions. 24% is provided by the State of Idaho. 13% is provided by an annual grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Idaho public television kids programming


History

The network's first station, KUID-TV, signed on from the UI campus in September 1965. KBGL-TV signed on in July 1971 from ISU 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. Citing budget restrictions in early 1981, the state legislature cut 90% of the state funding for public television, and the stations relied on federal funding and private donations. A year later, the legislature ordered the merger of the three stations into a single network. The licenses for all three stations were transferred to the state board of education. Two other stations in Coeur d'Alene and Twin Falls were added in 1992.

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.

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. There is a one-hour video delay for stations in the Pacific Time Zone so that all programs are broadcast at the same local time (i.e. a printed schedule would be valid in both time zones). The exception is for viewers in Montana tuned to a north Idaho station, as the time is one hour later.

Notes:

  • 1. The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says KIPT signed on January 18, while the Television and Cable Factbook says it signed on January 17.
  • 2. KISU-TV used the call sign KBGL-TV from its 1971 sign-on until December 7, 1981. (The ISU athletic teams are the Bengals.)
  • 3. KUID-TV was on analog channel 12 until its digital channel signed on; the analog signal was moved to Channel 35, which had previously been assigned as KUID's digital allocation.

    • Digital subchannels

    The digital channels of IdahoPTV's stations are multiplexed:

    Plus is a "best of" channel with nightly themes. Sunday's theme is history programming while Mondays is local content and exploration. Tuesdays' theme is science, Wednesdays, drama; Thursdays, British comedies; Fridays, natural history; and Saturdays, performance.

    Analog-to-digital conversion

    IdahoPTV's stations shut down their analog signals on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital channel allocations post-transition are as follows:

  • KAID shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 4; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 21. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 4.
  • KCDT shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 26; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 45. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 26.
  • KIPT shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 13; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 22. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 13.
  • KISU-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 10; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 17. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 10.
  • KUID-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 35; the station's digital signal broadcasts on its pre-transition VHF channel 12.

    • Translators

    Idaho Public Television has a network of digital low power translators across Idaho:

    KCDT - Coeur D' Alene, Idaho (digital channels displayed as 26.x by PSIP)

  • K44KK-D Channel 44 Bonners Ferry
  • K49JD-D Channel 49 Kellogg
  • K42GT-D Channel 42 Priest Lake
  • K30LS-D Channel 30 Sandpoint

    • KAID - Boise, Idaho (digital channels displayed as 4.x by PSIP)

  • K11PB-D Channel 11 Cambridge
  • K09LO-D Channel 9 Cascade
  • KAID Channel 17 Cascade
  • K11WR-D Channel 11 Council
  • K41EO-D Channel 41 Crouch/Garden Valley
  • K51FL-D Channel 51 Garden Valley
  • KAID Channel 32 Glenns Ferry
  • KAID Channel 17 Idaho City
  • K11WT-D Channel 11 McCall
  • K41HS-D Channel 41 McCall

    • KIPT - Twin Falls, Idaho (digital channels displayed as 13.x by PSIP)

  • K14IC-D Channel 14 Burley
  • K47JW-D Channel 47 Hagerman

    • KISU - Pocatello, Idaho (digital channels displayed as 10.x by PSIP)

  • K12LS-D Channel 12 Challis/Ellis
  • K13QE-D Channel 13 Driggs
  • K15GO-D Channel 15 Georgetown
  • K14MC-D Channel 14 Lava Hot Springs
  • K14IJ-D Channel 14 Leadore
  • K15HR-D Channel 15 Mackay
  • K35GW-D Channel 35 Malad City
  • K23DO-D Channel 23 Malta
  • K43JD-D Channel 43 Rexburg
  • K19CY-D Channel 19 Rockland
  • K49IC-D Channel 49 Salmon
  • K13QH-D Channel 13 Swan Valley/Irwin

    • KUID - Moscow, Idaho (digital channels displayed as 12.x by PSIP)

  • K46HX-D Channel 46 Grangeville
  • K43GE-D Channel 43 Juliaetta
  • K05GQ-D Channel 5 Kooskia/Stites
  • K51HY-D Channel 51 Lewiston
  • K23HT-D Channel 23 St. Maries

    • References

    Idaho Public Television Wikipedia
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