KVPT
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KVPT virtual channel 18, known on-air as Valley PBS, is the sole source of public television broadcasting in California’s Central San Joaquin Valley. Based in Fresno, California, Valley PBS is licensed to Digital Channel 40, but continues to use its historic analog channel 18 as its virtual channel (which appears via PSIP as Channel 18.1). In Septermer 2010, KVPT changed its branding to "Valley PBS". Previously, the station had been known as "Valley Public Television".
KVPT is also broadcast in Bakersfield digitally on K18HD-D, a low-power television station. K18HD-D was formerly affiliated with Multimedios Television. KVPT bought the station from Michael Mintz of Mintz Broadcasting in March 2007. The station flash-cut to digital on April 25, 2008.
The station debuted in 1977 as KMTF, a service of the Fresno County public schools. (Previously, PBS programs had been made available to the area's commercial stations on a per-program basis, or via cable from KVIE in Sacramento.) It became a community license in 1987. In 1990, it added a low-power translator in Bakersfield on channel 65, making Bakersfield one of the last markets to receive public television terrestrially. Later that year, the calls were changed to KVPT. The original call letters, KMTF are now used by a CW television station in Helena, Montana.
Digital Programming
As of February 17, 2009, KVPT broadcasts in digital (only) on UHF channel 40. The station continues the use of channel 18 as its virtual channel. On September 27, 2010 KVPT renamed its channel to Valley PBS but kept the call letters KVPT. With KCET's departure from PBS in January 2011 (KCET has a translator in Bakersfield), KVPT is now the only PBS station from Merced to Bakersfield and all across the Central Valley between those cities.
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
Digital channels| Ch | Programming |
|---|---|
| 18.1 | Main KVPT programming in HD |
| 18.2 | Create TV |
| 18.3 | V-me |
See also
- The Fresno Channel (local access channel in which KVPT is a partner of)