WKYU-TV
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| Bowling Green, Kentucky | |
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| Branding | WKU PBS |
| Slogan | Western's Public Broadcasting |
| Channels | Digital: 18 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | Western Kentucky University |
| First air date | January 15, 1989 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Western KentuckY University |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 24 (1989-2009) |
| Transmitter power | 61 kW |
| Height | 176.9 m |
| Facility ID | 71861 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°3′49″N 86°26′7″W / 37.06361°N 86.43528°W |
| Website | www.wkyupbs.org/ |
WKYU is the PBS member station for the Bowling Green, Kentucky. It is owned and operated by Western Kentucky University, and is an arm of WKU's Information Technology department. Its transmitter is located 6 miles (10 km) north of Bowling Green on KY 185, while its studio is located on College Heights Boulevard on the WKU campus alongside sister National Public Radio network WKU Public Radio.
WKYU-TV signed on for the first time on January 15, 1989. It was the second PBS member in Kentucky that was not aligned with Kentucky Educational Television (which has operated a repeater in Bowling Green, WKGB-TV, since 1968); the first was Louisville's WKPC-TV. KET acquired WKPC in 1998. It is one of the smallest standalone stations in the PBS system.
WKYU-TV occasionally airs Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball games that don't appear on regular commercial sports networks.
After years of branding as "WKYU-TV" or "WKYU-PBS" for most of its history, it rebranded as "WKU-PBS" in 2013.
Digital television
The station's digital signal is multiplexed, and all three services transmit in 480i standard definition:
| Subchannel | Programming |
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| 24.1 | Main WKYU programming /PBS HD |
| 24.2 | Create |
| 24.3 | National Weather Service Doppler weather radar image from Fort Campbell NWS office (link) NOAA Weather Radio audio from KIH45 |
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