KACV-TV

KACV-TV
Amarillo, Texas
United States
City Amarillo, Texas
Branding Panhandle PBS
Slogan We Live Here To
Channels Digital: 8 (VHF)
Subchannels 2.1 PBS-HD
2.2 V-me
Affiliations PBS
Owner Amarillo College
(Amarillo Junior College District)
First air date August 29, 1988
Call letters' meaning Amarillo College Voice
Sister station(s) KACV-FM
Former channel number(s) Analog:
2 (VHF, 1988-2009)
Transmitter power 5 kW
Height 519 meters (1,703 ft)
Facility ID 1236
Transmitter coordinates 35°22′29.7″N 101°52′57.3″W / 35.374917°N 101.882583°W / 35.374917; -101.882583
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.panhandlepbs.org

KACV-TV is a public television station in Amarillo, Texas, broadcasting locally on channels 2.1 and 2.2 [1] as a PBS member station. Founded in 1988, the station is owned by the city's community college, Amarillo College. KACV-TV is operated on Amarillo College's Washington Street campus, along with sister-station KACV-FM; the station's transmitter is located north of Amarillo in unincorporated Potter County.

Previous KACV-TV logo, used through 2008

Amarillo was one of the last major cities to get its own PBS station; prior to then, viewers in the Texas Panhandle watched PBS either on Amarillo's commercial stations (on a per-program basis), or via cable on Dallas' KERA-TV, OETA from Oklahoma, or New Mexico's KENW.

The station also produces local programming such as "artZONE," "A Conversation with Ken Burns" and "Braggin' Rights: The Coors Cowboy Club Ranch Rodeo."

On September 3, 2013, KACV announced its re-branding to "Panhandle PBS".[2]

Digital Programming

The station's digital channel, VHF 8, is multiplexed:

Digital channels

Channel Programming
2.1 Main KACV-TV programming / PBS HD
2.2 V-me

The HD service is also carried on the Suddenlink Amarillo cable system.

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://www.panhandlepbs.org/about/cable-and-translators/
  2. ↑ http://panhandlepbs.org/about/pressroom/kacv-changing-panhandle-pbs/

See also

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