Smoky Hills Public Television

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Smoky Hills Public Television
western Kansas
Slogan	Making Kansas a Better Place to Live and Work
Channels	Analog: see table below Digital: see table below
Affiliations	PBS
Owner	Smoky Hills Public Television Corporation
First air date	November 10, 1982
Call letters’ meaning	see table below
Transmitter Power	see table below
Height	see table below
Facility ID	see table below
Transmitter Coordinates	see table below
Website	www.pbs.org/shptv

Smoky Hills Public Television is the PBS member network for 52 mostly rural counties in western Kansas. The network is headquartered in a historic native stone building in Bunker Hill, just east of Russell.

The network consists of full-power analog stations KOOD (channel 9) in Hays and KSWK (channel 3) in Lakin, along with digital-only stations KDCK (channel 21) in Dodge City and KWKS (channel 19) in Colby. KOOD is the flagship station, with its transmitter in southern Russell County, approximately 10 miles south-southeast of Russell.

KOOD annually televises three championship events sponsored by the Kansas State High School Activities Association: the eight-man football title games in November, the Class 3-2-1A wrestling tournament in February, and the Class 1A basketball tournament title games in March.

In addition, there are seven low-power translators:

• K69DB Hoxie (channel 69)
• K66CD Phillipsburg (channel 66)
• K64BS Concordia (channel 64)
• K15CG Oakley (channel 15)
• K23BU Goodland (channel 23)
• K32BY Oberlin (channel 32)
• K39BS Norton (channel 39)

The Hoxie translator is owned by the government of Sheridan County, the others are owned by the network.

The Smoky Hills Public Television Corporation was founded in 1978 to bring PBS to western Kansas. The region is part of the Wichita market, and up to that time much of the area got PBS programming on cable via either Wichita's PBS station, KPTS, or Denver's PBS affiliate, KRMA. KOOD was the first station in the network to sign on the air, on November 10, 1982. KSWK followed on March 15, 1989. KDCK signed on on March 3, 1998 and flash-cut to digital in 2003. KWKS signed on as a digital-only station in June 2007.

The combined broadcast power of the network's four full-power stations and six translators covers almost half of Kansas. Much of this area watches it on cable, which is all but essential for an acceptable signal in most of this vast area. Since 2005, it has also been available on the Wichita DirecTV and Dish Network feeds, boosting its potential viewership to over 1.5 million people in Kansas and Nebraska.

[edit] Stations

Station	City of license	Channels (Analog/ Digital)	First air date	Call letters’ meaning	ERP (Analog/ Digital)	HAAT (Analog/ Digital)	Facility ID	Transmitter coordinates
KOOD	Hays	9 (VHF) 16 (UHF)	November 10, 1982		316 kW 496 kW	332 m 304 m	60675	38°46′16″N, 98°44′17″W
KSWK	Lakin	3 (VHF) 8 (VHF)	March 15, 1989	South Western Kansas	100 kW 33 kW	171 m 153 m	60683	37°49′39.9″N, 101°6′36.9″W
KDCK1	Dodge City	21 (UHF)	March 1998	Dodge City Kansas	8.42 kW	99 m	79258	37°49′32.8″N, 100°10′42.5″W
KWKS1	Colby	19 (UHF)	June 2007	Western KansaS	464 kW	383 m	162115	39°14′31″N, 101°21′40″W

Notes:

• 1. KDCK and KWKS are digital-only stations. KDCK flash-cut to digital in 2003.

[edit] External links

• SHPTV website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KOOD
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KSWK
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KDCK
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KWKS
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K69DB
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K66CD
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K64BS
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K15CG
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K23BU
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K32BY
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K39BS
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KOOD-TV
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KSWK-TV
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KDCK-TV
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KWKS-TV

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v • d • e PBS Member Stations in the state of Kansas KPTS 8 (Hutchinson) - KOOD 9 / KSWK 3 / KDCK 21 (Hays / Lakin / Dodge City) - KTWU 11 / K30AL 30 (Topeka / Iola) See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC and Other Stations in Kansas