Branding New Mexico PBS | Affiliations PBS (1970–present) | |
Channels Digital: 35 (UHF)
Virtual: 5 (PSIP) Subchannels 5.1 PBS
5.2 PBS Kids
5.3 FNX Owner University of New Mexico
and Albuquerque Public Schools
(The Regents of the University of New Mexico & the Board of Education of the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico) First air date May 1, 1958; 58 years ago (1958-05-01) | ||
KNME-TV, branded on-air as New Mexico PBS, is a non-commercial educational television station based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. It is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member station, and broadcasts on digital channel 35 (virtual channel 5) that produces documentaries, shorts and weekly television series. It is jointly owned by the University of New Mexico and Albuquerque Public Schools. The station has studios located on the North Campus of UNM, and the transmitter is based from Sandia Crest.
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Television programs produced by New Mexico PBS
New Mexico PBS produces several television programs, including:
WestLink
KNME also operates the satellite service WestLink ([1]), which shares programming with other public television stations and several commercial clients. Satellite interviews from New Mexico on news networks like CNN often originate at New Mexico PBS.
TALNET
From 1995 to 2010, KNME operated TALNET (an acronym for Teach and Learn Network.), an educational cable channel for Albuquerque. It broadcast a mix of PBS and Annenberg media programming and local school board meetings on Comcast cable channel 96 in Albuquerque.
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
On January 18, 2017 PBS Kids replaced the Spanish-language V-me network which had aired on channel 5.2 for about ten years with V-me planning to transition to a commercial cable channel in 2017. The channel however had never caught on with Spanish speaking audiences. Since Fall 2016 KNME carries First Nations Experience (FNX) a channel devoted to Native American programming.
Analog-to-digital conversion
KNME-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, 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 signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 35. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 5.