KHET

KHET / KMEB
KHET: Honolulu, Hawaii
KMEB: Wailuku, Hawaii
United States
Branding PBS Hawai'i
Slogan Home is Here.
Channels Digital:
KHET: 11 (VHF)
KMEB: 10 (VHF}
Virtual:
KHET: 11 (PSIP)
KMEB: 10 (PSIP)
Subchannels
Affiliations PBS (1970–present)
Owner Hawaii Public Television Foundation
First air date KHET: April 15, 1966 (1966-04-15)
KMEB: September 22, 1966 (1966-09-22)
Call letters' meaning KHET:
Hawaii
Educational
Television
KMEB:
Maui
Educational
Broadcasting
Former channel number(s) Analog:
KHET:
11 (VHF, 1966–2009)
KMEB:
10 (VHF, 1966–2009)
Digital:
KHET:
18 (UHF, until 2009)
KMEB:
30 (UHF, until 2009)
Former affiliations NET (1966–1970)
Transmitter power KHET: 15.7 kW
KMEB: 21.2 kW
Height KHET: 625 m
KMEB: 747 m
Facility ID KHET: 26431
KMEB: 26428
Transmitter coordinates KHET:
21°24′3″N 158°6′10″W / 21.40083°N 158.10278°W / 21.40083; -158.10278
KMEB:
20°39′37″N 156°21′46″W / 20.66028°N 156.36278°W / 20.66028; -156.36278 (KMEB)
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: / KMEB Profile
/ KMEB CDBS
Website www.pbshawaii.org

KHET, branded as PBS Hawai'i, is a PBS member television station located in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. The station is owned by the Hawaii Public Television Foundation, which is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. For almost 50 years, PBS Hawai'i was located on Dole Street on the campus of the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu. In 2016, PBS Hawai'i moved to its current location at 315 Sand Island Access Road, in a renovated and expanded facility and former site of KFVE and KHNL.[1] PBS Hawai'i's Oahu transmitter is located on Palehua Ridge, north of Makakilo.[2]

The station's signal is relayed across the rest of the state outside of Oahu and metropolitan Honolulu on full-powered KMEB (VHF channel 10) in Wailuku on Maui and through a network of low-powered translators on the other Hawaiian Islands. It can also be seen statewide on Oceanic Time Warner Cable analog channel 11 (10 on Oahu) and HD digital 1010, and Hawaiian Telcom channels 11 and HD digital 1011.

Station history

KHET signed on the air for the first time on April 15, 1966; KMEB followed on six months later on September 22 of that year. KHET is the second outlet in Honolulu to occupy the channel 11 dial position, the first being KONA-TV from 1952 to 1955, when it moved to channel 2 because the higher VHFs (2 to 6) offered more ERPs at the time; that station is now KHON-TV. Had KONA not moved to channel 2, the channel would've remained a commercial allocation, as the FCC had intended to make channel 7 a non-commercial allocation for Honolulu in the first assignment, but the FCC relocated channel 7 to Wailuku in 1959 and made channel 11 a non-commercial allocation instead. Originally known on-air as "Hawaii Educational Television" (or "Hawaii ETV"), it rebranded as "Hawaii Public Television" in 1970 and then became "PBS Hawaii" in 2003. PBS Hawaii broadcasts 24 hours a day on cable television, but airs only from 5 a.m. to 12 a.m. daily on its over-the-air broadcast signal; this makes it one of the few remaining television stations in the United States that continues to sign off during the overnight hours.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[3][4]
11.1 1080i 16:9 KHET-1 Main programming / PBS
11.2 480i KHET-2 PBS Kids (5 a.m. - 6 p.m.)
NHK World (6 p.m.-midnight)
11.3 KHET-3 PBS Kids

Analog-to-digital conversion

Both stations discontinued regular programming on their analog signals, respectively on January 15, 2009, the date in which full-power television stations in Hawai'i transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts (six months earlier than the June 12 transition date for stations on the U.S. mainland):[5]

The station's digital transmitter operates at 9.5 kW (versus 148 kW for its analog signal).[6]

Translators

PBS Hawai'i operates the following low-powered translator stations:

City of license Callsign Channel
Anahola K36IJ-D 36
Hakalau K50JT-D 50
Hanalei K29HL-D 29
Hilo K28JV-D 28
Kilauea Military Camp K41JT-D 41
Kilauea K34IS-D 34
Lihue K30JE-D 30
Mauna Loa K19JW-D 19
Naalehu K31IZ-D 31
South Point K35II-D 35
Waimea K28JM-D 28
Waipake K21IA-D 21

References

  1. ↑ "PBS Hawaii - NEW HOME Campaign". Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  2. ↑ FCC information for KHET
  3. ↑ "RabbitEars.Info". Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  4. ↑ "RabbitEars.Info". Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  6. ↑ "HDHawaii PBS information". Retrieved 29 September 2016.
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