KTEH
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| KTEH | |
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| San Jose, California | |
| Branding | KTEH |
| Channels | Analog: 54 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | PBS V-me (DT4) |
| Owner | Northern California Public Broadcasting |
| First air date | October 19, 1964 |
| Former affiliations | NET (1964-1970) |
| Transmitter Power | 661 kW (analog) 290 kW (digital) |
| Height | 662 m (both) |
| Facility ID | 35663 |
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| Website | www.kteh.org |
KTEH is a public television station in San Jose, California, serving the San Francisco Bay Area as a PBS member station on channel 54. The station is owned by Northern California Public Broadcasting with sister-stations KQED (TV) in San Francisco and KQET in Watsonville, the latter repeating KQED.
KTEH maintains a Technical Volunteer program (currently headed by Molly Gee). It has allowed volunteers to learn how to operate cameras, audio, shading, directing, and more, while minimizing its costs.
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[edit] Programming
KTEH is known to run programming not commonly aired on other commercial or public television stations, such as British television series and anime. As an example of its British programming, KTEH carried the British science-fantasy show Doctor Who from April 1981 to January 2003, and then resumed airing it on April 10, 2007, with the 2005 series starring Christopher Eccleston. KTEH has also aired another British sci-fi show, Red Dwarf. In 1998, KTEH aired the entire season of Red Dwarf VIII in one night. In doing so, many episodes were shown on KTEH before British television.[citation needed]
[edit] Digital Television
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
Digital channels
| Channel | Programming |
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| 54.1 / 50.1 | PBS HD |
| 54.2 / 50.2 | Analog simulcast |
| 54.3 / 50.3 | KQED-TV San Francisco |
| 54.4 / 50.4 | V-me |
[edit] History
KTEH began broadcasting in 1964.
In the late 1990s, it bought a PBS station KCAH Channel 25 in Watsonville, which was founded in 1989 to serve as the PBS station for the Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz market.
In 2006, KQED and the KTEH Foundation agreed to merge to form Northern California Public Broadcasting. As a result of the merger, KCAH changed its call letters to KQET on August 12, 2007. On October 1, 2007, KQET switched programming sources from KTEH to KQED.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ KQET Fall 2007 Schedule (2006). Retrieved on October 16, 2007.
[edit] External links
- KTEH's official website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KTEH
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KTEH-TV
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