Smoky Hills PBS

"KOOD" redirects here. For the village in Rajasthan, India, see Kood, Rasjasthan.

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Smoky Hills Public Television is the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member network for 71 counties in central and western Kansas. It is headquartered in a historic native stone building in Bunker Hill, just east of Russell.

The network consists of flagship station KOOD (channel 16) in Hays, full-power satellites KSWK (channel 8) in Lakin, and KWKS (channel 19) in Colby and low-power satellite KDCK (channel 21) in Dodge City. KOOD's transmitter in southern Russell County, approximately 10 miles south-southeast of Russell.

Smoky Hills Public Television annually televises several Kansas high school athletic championship events sponsored by the Kansas State High School Activities Association: the Eight-Man Division 1 and 2 Football Championship games (November), Class 3-2-1A state wrestling tournament (February), and the Class 1A basketball tournament championship games (March).

History

The Smoky Hills Public Television Corporation was founded in 1978 to bring a local PBS station to western Kansas. The region is part of the Wichita market, and up to that time much of the area got PBS programming on cable via either Wichita's PBS station, KPTS, or Denver's PBS affiliate KRMA. KOOD was the first station in the network to sign on the air, on November 10, 1982. KSWK followed on March 15, 1989. KDCK signed on on March 3, 1998 and flash-cut to digital in 2003. KWKS signed on as a digital-only station in June 2007.

The combined broadcast power of the four SHPTV stations covers almost half of Kansas. Most viewers watch the network on cable, which is all but essential for an acceptable signal in most of this vast area. Since 2005, it has also been available on the Wichita DirecTV and Dish Network feeds, boosting its potential viewership to over 1.5 million people in Kansas and Nebraska.

Stations

Station	City of license	Channels (Digital)	First air date	Call letters’ meaning	ERP (Digital)	HAAT (Digital)	Facility ID	Transmitter coordinates
KOOD	Hays	16 (UHF) PSIP 9 Cable 9 Cox Cable 9 (Great Bend) Cox Cable 7 (Lindsburg) Cox Cable 2 (Salina)	November 10, 1982		496 kW	304 m	60675	38°46′16″N 98°44′17″W
KSWK	Lakin	8 (VHF) PSIP 3 Cox Cable 7 (Garden City)	March 15, 1989	South Western Kansas	33 kW	153 m	60683	37°49′39.9″N 101°6′36.9″W
KDCK1	Dodge City	21 (UHF) Cox Cable 7	March 1998	Dodge City Kansas	8.42 kW	99 m	79258	37°49′32.8″N 100°10′42.5″W
KWKS1	Colby	19 (UHF)	June 2007	Western KansaS	464 kW	383 m	162115	39°14′31″N 101°21′40″W

Notes:

• 1. KDCK and KWKS did not have companion digital channels, and therefore are operating on their pre-transition channels, without using PSIP. KDCK flash-cut to digital in 2003.

Until 2009, the state network also aired on seven low-power translators:

• K69DB Hoxie (channel 69)
• K66CD Phillipsburg (channel 66)
• K64BS Concordia (channel 64)
• K15CG Oakley (channel 15)
• K23BU Goodland (channel 23)
• K32BY Oberland (channel 32)
• K39BS Norton (channel 39)

The Hoxie translator was owned by the government of Sheridan County, the others were owned by the state network. All translators were taken out of service when analog broadcasting ended in the United States in 2009.

Subchannels

Subchannels for SHPTV include:

Channel	Name	Programming
9.1	SHPTV-DT	Main SHPTV Programming / PBS SD
9.2	SHPTV-HD	Main SHPTV Programming / PBS HD**
9.3	SHPTV-DT3	Create*
9.4	SHPTV-DT4	World*

* - channel runs from 12:00 AM CT to 6:00 PM CT to allow the ".2" channel to broadcast in HD during primetime

** - only in 1080i HD from 6:00 P.M. to 12:00 A.M. because there is limited OTA bandwidth

Local Television Programs Produced

Program Title	Debut Date	Notes
Doctors On Call (Season 7) (LIVE)	Features hour long episodes
The Kansas Legislature (ongoing series) (LIVE)	---
Miss Southwest Kansas Pageant	Marks the 6th year of coverage
KSHSAA 3-2-1A State Wrestling (LIVE)	Quarter-Finals, 1st Round Consolations, Semi-Finals, Finals
KSHSAA 1A State Girls' Basketball Championship	Girls' Championship Game
KSHSAA 1A State Boys' Basketball Championship	Boys' Championship Game
Signature Auction (LIVE)	March - Annual fundraiser for Smoky Hills Public Television
Kansas Candidates: Ongoing series
Down Home Country: Live in Branson	May 2010	---
Scoreboard Show	August 31, 2012	High School sports program with an 11 episode run
KSHSAA 8-man Division II state championship football game
KSHSAA 8-man Division I state championship football game

Down Home Country: Live In Branson

"Down Home Country: Live in Branson" was taped at the Tri-Lakes Center in Branson, Missouri. The program is hosted by Branson performer Dalena Ditto.

Episode	Debut Date	Guest 1	Guest 2	Guest 3	Guest 4
1	May 1, 2010	Penny Gilley	Johnny Lee	Joe Bonsall - The Oak Ridge Boys
2	May 8, 2010	Leroy Van Dyke	New South	Jim Ed Brown
3	May 15, 2010	Norma Jean	Dusty Rogers	Pierce Arrow	Bill Anderson
4	May 22, 2010	Buck Trent	Ricky Boen and Texas Mud	Bellamy Brothers
5	May 29, 2010	Leroy New	Joey Riley	Lee Greenwood
6	June 19, 2010	Ronnie Prophet	Marilou Turner	Jerry Lee Lewis Tribute	Mickey Gilley
7	June 26, 2010	Wanda Jackson	Baldknobbers	Marty Stuart
8	July 10, 2010	Barbara Fairchild	Daniel O'Donnell	Mary Duff	Patty Davidson
9	July 17, 2010	Sons of the Pioneers	Splinter Middleton	Mel Tillis
10	July 24, 2010	Moe Bandy	Clay Cooper	Neal McCoy

External links

• Smoky Hills Public Television's website
• Smoky Hills Public Television's Down Home Country: Live In Branson website
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