KBTC-TV

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KBTC-TV
135pxKBTC logo
Tacoma, Washington
Branding KBTC
Slogan Better Television
Channels 28 Tacoma/15 Centralia analog,
27 Tacoma/19 Centralia digital
Translators K65BU ch. 65 (UHF) Grays River
Affiliations PBS
Owner Bates Technical College
Founded 1979
Call letters meaning K Bates Technical College
Former callsigns KTPS-TV (1979-92)
Former affiliations none
Transmitter Power ch.28 676 kw
ch.15 661 kw
ch.27 47.2 kw
ch.19 43.7 kw
ch.65 0.891 kw
Height ch.28 232.0 m
ch.15 347.0 m
ch.27 224.0 m
ch.19 334.0 m
ch.65 922.0 m
Website www.kbtc.org

KBTC-TV is a public television station in Tacoma, Washington, affiliated with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). It broadcasts on analog channel 28 and digital channel 27, and Comcast cable channel 12. Its offices and broadcasting center are located on the campus of owner Bates Technical College. The property was purchased from KSTW when that station moved to Renton in 2001.

Bates Technical College also owns KCKA analog channel 15 and digital channel 19 in Centralia, where it repeats KBTC's programming, and owned public radio station KBTC-FM 91.7 until 2004, when it was sold to Public Radio Capital and became KXOT.

In addition to reaching a local over-the-air audience, KBTC is transmitted to Comcast Cable viewers in Seattle, Bellevue, Everett, and many areas of southwest Washington.

The station originally signed on in 1979 as KTPS-TV, owned by the Tacoma Public Schools. Previous to that time, KTPS had operated on Channel 62. Bates took over in 1992 and changed the calls to KBTC.

There had been plans for KCPQ to produce a newscast oriented at Tacoma and south Puget Sound for air on KBTC. However, as of June 2005, those plans appear to have been abandoned.

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Broadcast television in the Seattle / Tacoma market  (Nielsen DMA #14)

KOMO 4 (ABC) - KING 5 (NBC) - KIRO 7 (CBS) - KCTS 9 (PBS) - KSTW 11 (The CW) - KVOS 12 (Ind) - KCPQ 13 (Fox) - KCKA 15 (PBS) - KONG 16 (Ind) - KTBW 20 (TBN) - KMYQ 22 (MNTV) (The Tube on DT2) - KBCB 24 (Ind/IA) - KBTC 28 (PBS) - KWPX 33 (i) - KHCV 45 (JTV) - KUNS 51 (ShN/UNI) - KUSE 58 (ShN)
Local digital television channels

KWDK 42 (DS)
Local cable television channels

FSN Northwest - NorthWest Cable News (cable 2)

See also: Broadcast television in the Vancouver-Victoria Market
PBS Member Stations in the state of Washington

KSPS 7 (Spokane) - KCTS 9 / KYVE 47 (Seattle / Yakima) - KWSU 10 / KTNW 31 (Pullman / Richland) - KBTC 28 / KCKA 15 (Tacoma / Centralia)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC and Other stations in Washington
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