KPBT-TV

KPBT-TV
Odessa–Midland, Texas
United States
City Odessa, Texas
Branding Basin PBS
Channels Digital: 38 (UHF)
(to move to 28 (UHF))
Virtual: 36 (PSIP)
Subchannels 36.1 PBS
Affiliations PBS
Owner Permian Basin Public Telecommunications, Inc.
First air date March 24, 1986 (1986-03-24)
Call letters' meaning Permian Basin Television
Former callsigns KOCV-TV (1986–2006)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
36 (UHF, 1986–2009)
Transmitter power 220 kW
650 kW (CP)
Height 85.1 m (279 ft)
237 m (778 ft) (CP)
Facility ID 50044
Transmitter coordinates 31°53′50.3″N 102°20′15.5″W / 31.897306°N 102.337639°W / 31.897306; -102.337639
32°5′11″N 102°17′12″W / 32.08639°N 102.28667°W / 32.08639; -102.28667 (CP)
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.basinpbs.org

KPBT-TV, virtual channel 36 (UHF digital channel 38), branded as Basin PBS, is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Odessa, Texas, United States and serving the Permian Basin area. The station is owned by Permian Basin Public Television, Inc. KPBT's studios are located on Desta Drive in Midland, and its transmitter is located near the Music City Mall in Odessa.

On cable, KPBT is carried on channel 13 on most systems in the market.

History

The station signed on March 24, 1986 as KOCV-TV. Between 1970 and 1986, PBS programming had to be sold to the Odessa–Midland market's commercial stations on a per program basis (although it was viewable in the northwestern portion of the market via Portales, New Mexico-based KENW).

The station was formerly owned by Odessa College (callsign meaning: Odessa College Voice) and later by the Ector County Independent School District. Former First Lady Laura Bush was one of the station's 500 original members. The station changed its calls to KPBT-TV in 2006, following transfer to community ownership.

Digital television

Digital channel

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[1]
36.11080i16:9KPBT-HDMain KPBT-TV programming / PBS
Former KPBT-TV logo

Analog-to-digital conversion

KPBT-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 36, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 38.[2] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 36.

References

  1. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KPBT
  2. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
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