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KAMU TV

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Channels
  
Digital: 12 (VHF)

Owner
  
Texas A&M University

Call letters' meaning
  
Texas A&M University

Affiliations
  
PBS

First air date
  
February 15, 1970

KAMU-TV

Subchannels
  
12.1 PBS 12.2 Weather 12.3 PBS Kids

KAMU-TV is a full-service Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member public television station in College Station, Texas broadcasting on digital channel 12 from its transmitter near the university campus. KAMU-TV is owned and operated by Texas A&M University and began broadcasting on February 15, 1970.

On April 1, 2003, KAMU was the first station in the region to begin broadcasting in HDTV. KAMU made the first live HDTV broadcast in the region on April 22, 2004, with the program "Meet the Candidates 2004".

Digital television

KAMU switched from analog to digital conversion on June 12, 2009. The service moved to a VHF channel 12. During its DTV switch no longer broadcast analog channel after its digital switch. KAMU offered ResearchChannel on subchannel 12.3 until that service folded in August 2010.

References

KAMU-TV Wikipedia