KPBS (TV)

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KPBS
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San Diego, California
Slogan A broadcast service of San Diego State University
Channels Digital: 30 (UHF); virtual channel 15 (viaPSIP)
Translators K59AL La Jolla
K67AM La Jolla
Affiliations PBS
Owner San Diego State University
(The Board of Trustees of the California State University for San Diego State University)
First air date June 25, 1967
Call letters’ meaning Public
Broadcasting
Service
Sister station(s) KPBS-FM
Former callsigns KEBS-TV (1967-1970)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
15 (1967-2009)
Former affiliations NET (1967-1970)
Transmitter Power 350 kW (digital)
Height 567.4 m (digital)
Facility ID 6124
Transmitter Coordinates 32°41′53″N 116°56′3″W / 32.69806°N 116.93417°W / 32.69806; -116.93417 (KPBS)
Website www.kpbs.org/tv

KPBS television is a PBS member station based in San Diego, California, broadcasting on channel 30 digital. The station is owned by San Diego State University. KPBS can be found on Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable, and AT&T U-verse on cable channel 11 in standard definition. The three San Diego area cable companies also carry KPBS' HD signal. Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable carry the HD channel on cable channel 711, while, AT&T U-verse broadcasts it on channel 1011. The station is also available on DirecTV and Dish Network's Local Channels package on channel 15 in standard definition. However DirecTV is the only satellite company that offers KPBS' high definition signal, also available on channel 15.

The TV station was founded in 1967 as KEBS-TV. The station changed its calls to the current KPBS in 1970.

KPBS-TV is not part of the famed "big three" group of Los Angeles network flagship stations (KCBS-TV, KNBC and KABC-TV); its call letters merely express the nature of the station's programming and affiliation (KCET would be considered the Los Angeles "flagship" for PBS). PBS is collectively owned by its member stations.

Like Watertown, New York's WPBS-DT, KPBS-TV is a border station—in this case, serving viewers in both the US and Mexico.

[edit] Digital television

At the time of the analog television shutdown, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on June 12, 2009 [1], KPBS's digital signal remained on its pre-transition period channel 30. [2] However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display KPBS's virtual channel as 15. KPBS had indicated that it might terminate analog service on April 30, 2009, in advance of the current June 12, 2009 nationwide analog-digital conversation date. The station's website, however, states that KPBS continued analog transmissions until the current June 12, 2009 mandatory full power tv station analog/digital conversion date.

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