KAWE

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KAWE
Bemidji, Minnesota
City of license	Bemidji, Minnesota
Branding	Lakeland Public Television
Channels	9 (VHF) analog, 18 (UHF) digital
Translators	KAWB 22/DT 28 Brainerd, MN K42CU 42 Roseau, MN
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	Northern Minnesota Public Television
Founded	1980
Call letters meaning	Kawe is an Ojibwe word generally meaning 'first in a line of succession'
Transmitter Power	316 kW (analog) 80 kW (digital)
Height	334.7 m (analog) 303 m (digital)
Facility ID	21759
Website	http://www.lakelandptv.org

KAWE is an educational television station in Bemidji, Minnesota, broadcasting locally on channel 9 as a PBS member station. KAWE first took the air on June 1, 1980. The station also has a satellite station in Brainerd, Minnesota, KAWB channel 22 and rebroadcasted on translator K42CU in Roseau, Minnesota. KAWE is the only TV station based in Bemidji, as well as producing local newscasts for the Bemidji area. Other stations in the Bemidji area rebroadcast Minneapolis TV stations. KAWE-TV is carried on channel 22 on satellite television in the Minneapolis-St. Paul TV market (which is KAWB's broadcast channel number) because KMSP-TV of Minneapolis also broadcasts on channel 9.

[edit] Screenshots

KAWE/KAWB logo in 1995

News Anchor in 2002

End of news in 2002

Screenshot in 2005

[edit] External links

• Lakeland Public Television
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KAWE
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KAWB