KLRN is a public television station in San Antonio, Texas, broadcasting locally on VHF channel 9 as a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member station. It is operated by the Alamo Public Telecommunications Council (formerly the Southwest Texas Public Broadcasting Council).
The station also serves as the default PBS member station for the Laredo market, which does not have a PBS station of its own.
It began broadcasting on September 10, 1962; owned by the Southwest Texas Public Broadcasting Council. Unusually for stations of that time, it was licensed to serve two markets--San Antonio and Austin. This was in part because Austin had been allocated UHF channel 18 for noncommercial use, and UHF was not considered viable at the time. The transmitter was located roughly halfway between San Antonio and Austin on land just north of New Braunfels, a San Antonio suburb. The main studio was located in Austin on rented space at the University of Texas, with a small satellite studio in San Antonio.
In 1979, KLRU was brought online in Austin as a satellite of KLRN. In 1984, the Southwest Texas Public Broadcasting Council severed the electronic umbilical cord between its two stations and activated a new KLRN tower in San Antonio. It also formed separate governing boards for the two stations. In 1987, the two stations finally went their separate ways when the Southwest Texas Public Broadcasting Council split itself into two community organizations, with KLRN coming under the Alamo Public Telecommunications Council.
[edit] Digital television
The digital signal of KLRN is multiplexed:
Digital channels
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Programming |
| 9.1 / 8.1 |
KLRN-HD |
Regular KLRN programming in HD (digital channel 91 / analog channel 10 on Time Warner Cable in San Antonio) |
| 9.2 / 8.2 |
KLRN Too |
PBS World programming aired during alternate day parts(channels 92 and 108 on Time Warner Digital Cable) |
| 9.3 / 8.3 |
V-me |
Spanish Language Public Television (channels 93 and 279 on Time Warner Digital Cable) |
| 9.4 / 8.4 |
Create |
Lifestyle programming that includes cooking, painting, sewing, travel and more (channel 94 on Time Warner Digital Cable) |
[edit] Notable programming
Some of the notable programs produced (in the Austin studio) by KLRN over the years included Carrascolendas and Villa Alegre, both 1970s children's programs about Hispanic culture. KLRN also produced Austin City Limits until 1984, when KLRU split off from KLRN.
[edit] Trivia
Corpus Christi's KEDT, while always under different ownership than KLRN, carried much of KLRN's schedule the first few years of its life, after beginning in October 1972. Because of this arrangement, KLRN was also seen by cable TV customers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, some 250 miles from San Antonio.
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- KCWX (2.1 MNTV, 2.2 This TV)
- WOAI (4.1 NBC, 4.2 Mexi)
- KENS (5.1 CBS, 5.2 Estrella TV, 5.3 Radar)
- KLRN (9.1 PBS, 9.2 PBS World, 9.3 V-me, 9.4 Create)
- KSAT (12.1 ABC, 12.2 LATV)
- KPXL (26.1 Ion, 26.2 Qubo, 26.3 ION Life)
- KABB (29.1 Fox)
- KMYS (35.1 CW, 35.2 TheCoolTV)
- K53JC 53 (TxDOT)
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