KPBT-TV

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KPBT-TV
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Odessa/Midland, Texas
Branding Basin PBS
Channels Analog: 36 (UHF)

Digital: 38 (UHF)
Affiliations PBS
Owner Permian Basin Public Telecommunications, Inc.
First air date March 24, 1986
Call letters’ meaning Permian Basin Television
Former callsigns KOCV-TV (1986-2006)
Transmitter Power 513 kW (analog)
500 kW (digital)
Height 88 m (analog)
80 m (digital)
Facility ID 50044
Transmitter Coordinates 31°51′57.8″N, 102°22′58″W (analog)
31°51′59.4″N, 102°22′51″W (digital)
Website www.kpbt.org

KPBT-TV is a public television station in Odessa, Texas, broadcasting locally on channel 36 as a PBS member station. The station is owned by Permian Basin Public Television, Inc.

The station signed on March 24, 1986 as KOCV-TV, and was owned by Odessa College (callsign meaning: Odessa College Voice) and later by the Ector County Independent School District. First Lady Laura Bush was one of the station's 500 original members. The station changed its calls to KPBT in 2006 after being transferred to community ownership.

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Broadcast television in the Odessa / Midland market  (Nielsen DMA #157)

KMID 2 (ABC) - KOSA 7 (CBS/MNTV on DT) - KWES 9 / KWAB 4 (NBC/TMD on DT.3) - KUPB 18 (UNI) - KTLE-LP 20 / KTLD-LP 49 (TMD) - KPEJ 24 (FOX) - KWWT 30 (CW) - KPBT 36 (PBS) - KMLM 42 (GLC) - K69IT 69 (Multimedios)

Outlying Areas
KUPT 29 (MNTV) - K42FX 42 (PBS)
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PBS Member Stations in the state of Texas
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetwork TV, NBC, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Religious, Other English and Other Spanish stations in Texas