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KLOK-DT, channel 28, is the PBS member station in the Sacramento Valley of California. The station broadcasts to ten California counties, including: Shasta County, Modoc County, and Colusa County.

[edit] History

KLOK went on the air in black and white as KIXE on channel 9 in 1964. In 1967 the station moved from Chico, California to Redding, California. In 1971, the station started broadcasting in color.

Their initial Redding location was on Industrial Street, but when it was running out of room and needed to be expanded, they moved to a bigger facility on North Market Street, aka Highway 273, north of downtown. The facility also was the host building for television broadcasting courses at Shasta College. Many local media personalities have appeared on KIXE over the years like Cal Hunter, Mike Mangas, Ray Roberts, Ken Murray and others to urge viewers to support public television.

KIXE was purchased in 2009, by a consortium of investors in order to diversify the programming spectrum that KIXE was not providing for the viewers. On August 29, 2009, KIXE signed off for three weeks and returned to the air on September 22, 2009 as KLOK on channel 28. The noticable difference was the removal of the HD feed that KIXE provided, but in turn KLOK added three additional digital subchannel carriers including v-Me, MHz Worldview and PBS World to add to the Create subchannel already offered.

[edit] Digital Television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channels