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Wyoming PBS
Channels
BrandingWyoming PBS
Programming
Affiliationsxx.1: PBS (1983–present)
xx.2: Create
xx.3: PBS Kids
Ownership
Owner Central Wyoming College
History
FoundedMay 10, 1983 (1983-05-10)
First air date
May 10, 1983 (40 years ago) (1983-05-10)
Technical information
Facility ID see table below
ERP see table below
HAAT see table below
Transmitter coordinates see table below
Translator(s) see table below
Links
Website wyomingpbs.org

Wyoming PBS (formerly known as Wyoming Public Television) is the PBS member network in the U.S. state of Wyoming. It currently consists of flagship KCWC-DT (channel 4) in Lander (serving Riverton); full-power satellites KWYP-DT (channel 8) in Laramie (serving Cheyenne) and KPTW (channel 6) in Casper; and over 35 low-power translator stations across the state.

The network is operated by Central Wyoming College, a community college in Riverton which owns the licenses to all of the state's PBS stations, with studios located on the Central Wyoming College campus.

History

Wyoming had been among the first states to begin the groundwork for a non-commercial educational/ public television station, doing so in 1951, three years before any television station was on the air in the state. However, due to numerous delays, it would be several years before the idea even got beyond the planning stages. In the meantime, KRMA-TV in Denver brought PBS programming to much of the state on cable and via translators. Other parts of Wyoming were served by KTNE-TV in Alliance, Nebraska, part of the Nebraska ETV Network; and KUED and KBYU-TV in Salt Lake City. KRMA (now known as Rocky Mountain PBS) and KUED still operate several translators in Wyoming, as much of the southern portion of the state is considered part of the Denver and Salt Lake City markets.

Central Wyoming College applied for the channel 4 license in Riverton in the late 1970s. Before then, the college offered college programming through the Riverton cable system on channel 4 using its own head end modulator on campus. Programming was in black and white from 1971 to 1973 and very limited. Examples of shows included Riverton high school football, college basketball, on-campus lectures, and educational films. By the mid-1970s, the educational radio station got on air and work began on KCWC-TV for full color equipment and FCC licenses. They had to fight a commercial station in nearby Casper to keep the channel designated as non-commercial. After securing the largest single federal grant for a public television station at the time, KCWC-TV finally went on the air on May 10, 1983. This made Wyoming the next-to-last state to get a public television station on the air within its borders; CWC filed just days before Montana State University filed for KUSM in Bozeman, Montana; which went on the air over a year after KCWC.

Initially, KCWC's coverage was limited to Riverton and surrounding Fremont County. Over the years, however, it built translator after translator across the state, bringing its signal to 85% of Wyoming. This was not as problematic as it may seem; this expansion effort was done largely in conjunction with the state's cable systems. Even in the digital era, cable and satellite are all but essential for acceptable television in much of Wyoming. Sometime in the late 1980s or early 1990s, it adopted the on-air name of Wyoming Public Television to reflect its statewide reach.

KWYP-TV, the network's second full-power station, signed on in 2004. KPTW followed in March 2007. [1]

On New Year's Day 2008, the state network rebranded as Wyoming PBS to celebrate its 25th anniversary on the air.

The switch to digital television greatly extended Wyoming PBS' reach. Since digital signals cover more territory than analog signals, Wyoming PBS now claims to reach 95 percent of the state.

The network has a very close relationship with Central Wyoming College. Broadcasting students help produce and direct many of the network's shows and pledge drives. As of 2019, they added the PBS Kids Channel to digital subchannel .3 on all of its stations.

Stations

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect KCWC-DT PSIP
short name
KWYP-DT PSIP
short name
KPTW PSIP
short name
Programming
4.1 8.1 6.1 1080i 16:9 KCWC-HD KWYP-HD KPTW-HD PBS
4.2 8.2 6.2 480i KCWC-SD KWYP-SD KPTW-SD Create
4.3 8.3 6.3 KIDS-SD PBS Kids
Station City of license
(other cities
served)
Channels
TV / DT
First air date Call letters’
meaning
ERP HAAT Facility ID Transmitter coordinates Public license information
KCWC-DT1 Lander
( Riverton)
4
8 ( VHF)
May 10, 1983 Central Wyoming College 60  kW 432 m (1,417 ft) 10036 42°34′57.5″N 108°42′35.7″W / 42.582639°N 108.709917°W / 42.582639; -108.709917 (KCWC-TV) Profile
LMS
KWYP-DT2 3 Laramie
( Cheyenne)
8
8 (VHF)
November 2004 Wyoming Public Television 13 kW 308 m (1,010 ft) 10032 41°17′16.7″N 105°26′44.5″W / 41.287972°N 105.445694°W / 41.287972; -105.445694 (KWYP-DT) Profile
LMS
KPTW2 Casper 6
8 (VHF)
March 2007 Public Television Wyoming 2.3 kW 568 m (1,864 ft) 82575 42°44′25.7″N 106°21′36.7″W / 42.740472°N 106.360194°W / 42.740472; -106.360194 (KPTW) Profile
LMS

Notes:

  • 1. KCWC-DT used the callsign KCWC-TV until October 7, 2009.
  • 2. Because they were granted original construction permits after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, [2] these stations did not receive companion channels for digital television stations. Instead, on June 12, 2009, which was the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KWYP-TV and KPTW were to be required to turn off their analog signals and turn on their digital signals (called a " flash-cut"). KPTW however, did change channels to 8 instead of 6.
  • 3. KWYP-DT used the callsign KWYP-TV until October 7, 2009.

Additionally, KCWC is carried on the Casper Dish Network feed. However, KWYP is not available on the Cheyenne Dish Network feed; KTNE is the sole PBS station offered. This is due to a longstanding FCC regulation that defined a "local" channel as one whose main transmitter is in the area, not a repeater. Although state networks in other states have satellite stations carried on local satellite feeds, Dish interpreted this regulation as forbidding it from carrying KWYP on the Cheyenne feed (presumably because Laramie is geographically part of the Denver market). Wyoming PBS has pursued legislation that would allow states that suffer from severe fragmentation of their state by outside markets a chance to claim "local" for public broadcasters in a style of "within our state borders" if the public broadcaster is providing the service to the entire state. In response, Congress amended the Satellite Home Viewer Act to permit satellite carriers to carry statewide PBS networks to viewers in all counties in that state, regardless of what DMA the county was in.

Translators

Wyoming PBS operates a network of low-power translator stations across the state of Wyoming—one of the largest translator networks in the PBS system.

City of license Callsign Translating Channel ERP HAAT Facility ID Transmitter coordinates Owner
Big Piney, etc. K33JQ-D KCWC-DT 33 0.02 kW 167 m (548 ft) 167599 42°34′10.7″N 109°54′41.5″W / 42.569639°N 109.911528°W / 42.569639; -109.911528 (K33JQ-D) Sublette County
Buffalo K19GX-D 19 0.2 kW 94 m (308 ft) 167618 44°05′10.9″N 106°40′23.1″W / 44.086361°N 106.673083°W / 44.086361; -106.673083 (K19GX-D) Central Wyoming College
Cheyenne K36JO-D KWYP-DT 36 6 kW 53 m (174 ft) 128524 41°09′34.5″N 104°43′19.8″W / 41.159583°N 104.722167°W / 41.159583; -104.722167 (K36JO-D)
Chugwater K16IO-D KCWC-DT 16 0.9 kW 101 m (331 ft) 182338 41°46′8.8″N 104°49′0.8″W / 41.769111°N 104.816889°W / 41.769111; -104.816889 (K16IO-D)
Clareton K31LF-D 31 0.245 kW 182314 43°44′40.1″N 105°28′03.0″W / 43.744472°N 105.467500°W / 43.744472; -105.467500 (K31LF-D)
Clark K23IX-D 23 0.25 kW −47 m (−154 ft) 167617 44°56′19.8″N 109°07′2.5″W / 44.938833°N 109.117361°W / 44.938833; -109.117361 (K23IX-D)
Clarks Fork K02LH-D 2 0.04 kW −332 m (−1,089 ft) 51612 44°53′36.8″N 109°38′24.6″W / 44.893556°N 109.640167°W / 44.893556; -109.640167 (K02LH-D)
Cody
Powell
K19LM-D 19 1.0 kW 17.1 m (56 ft) 51616 44°35′13.8″N 108°51′10.5″W / 44.587167°N 108.852917°W / 44.587167; -108.852917 (K19LM-D)
Crowheart K18JJ-D 18 0.335 kW 117 m (384 ft) 181744 43°08′06.2″N 108°55′1.9″W / 43.135056°N 108.917194°W / 43.135056; -108.917194 (K18JJ-D)
Douglas K29JO-D 29 1.1 kW 102 m (335 ft) 181738 42°43′25″N 105°18′24″W / 42.72361°N 105.30667°W / 42.72361; -105.30667 (K29JO-D)
Dubois, etc. K16LT-D 16 0.3 kW 381 m (1,250 ft) 167620 43°29′57.8″N 109°41′18.5″W / 43.499389°N 109.688472°W / 43.499389; -109.688472 (K16LT-D)
Evanston K23DS-D 23 0.23 kW 407 m (1,335 ft) 74269 41°21′0.8″N 110°54′18.6″W / 41.350222°N 110.905167°W / 41.350222; -110.905167 (K23DS-D)
Freedom K31DC-D 31 0.2 kW 684 m (2,244 ft) 38920 43°07′7.7″N 111°7′48.7″W / 43.118806°N 111.130194°W / 43.118806; -111.130194 (K31DC-D) Lower Star Valley TV Association
Gillette K26NL-D 26 5.8 kW 117 m (384 ft) 167621 44°18′17″N 105°33′55″W / 44.30472°N 105.56528°W / 44.30472; -105.56528 (K26NL-D) Central Wyoming College
Glendo K21HQ-D KWYP-DT 21 0.25 kW 161 m (528 ft) 127144 42°20′43.8″N 105°1′55.9″W / 42.345500°N 105.032194°W / 42.345500; -105.032194 (K21HQ-D)
Glenrock K24MK-D KCWC-DT 24 0.4 kW 64 m (210 ft) 182697 42°53′28.2″N 105°52′5.8″W / 42.891167°N 105.868278°W / 42.891167; -105.868278 (K24MK-D)
Greybull K19KW-D 19 1.15 kW 162 m (531 ft) 167623 44°24′46.8″N 107°59′51.4″W / 44.413000°N 107.997611°W / 44.413000; -107.997611 (K19KW-D)
Jackson K19FG-D 0.23 kW 232 m (761 ft) 10033 43°27′44.7″N 110°45′5.7″W / 43.462417°N 110.751583°W / 43.462417; -110.751583 (K19FG-D)
Kemmerer K24GT-D 24 0.37 kW 267 m (876 ft) 128712 41°50′17″N 110°30′14″W / 41.83806°N 110.50389°W / 41.83806; -110.50389 (K24GT-D)
La Barge K29HV-D 29 0.25 kW 571 m (1,873 ft) 167614 42°09′26.7″N 110°19′41.5″W / 42.157417°N 110.328194°W / 42.157417; -110.328194 (K29HV-D)
Lander KCWC-DT (DRT) 16 0.12 kW 7 m (23 ft) 10036 42°54′20.8″N 108°42′21.4″W / 42.905778°N 108.705944°W / 42.905778; -108.705944 (KCWC-DT (DRT))
Lovell K27OU-D 27 1.2 kW 82 m (269 ft) 167622 44°51′36.1″N 108°29′47.1″W / 44.860028°N 108.496417°W / 44.860028; -108.496417 (K27OU-D)
Lucerne K22NJ-D 22 0.35 kW 41 m (135 ft) 167591 43°42′45.9″N 107°53′1.3″W / 43.712750°N 107.883694°W / 43.712750; -107.883694 (K22NJ-D)
Meeteetse, etc. K29IH-D 29 1.25 kW 72 m (236 ft) 167615 44°12′44.2″N 108°51′30″W / 44.212278°N 108.85833°W / 44.212278; -108.85833 (K29IH-D))
Mountain View K36OU-D 36 0.3 kW 310 m (1,017 ft) 27129 41°06′19.2″N 110°12′38.5″W / 41.105333°N 110.210694°W / 41.105333; -110.210694 (K36OU-D))
Mountain View, etc. K16NU-D 16 14 m (46 ft) 27130 41°06′19.2″N 110°12′38.5″W / 41.105333°N 110.210694°W / 41.105333; -110.210694 (K16NU-D))
Newcastle K15II-D 15 0.23 kW −27 m (−89 ft) 181516 43°50′23.9″N 104°12′4.7″W / 43.839972°N 104.201306°W / 43.839972; -104.201306 (K15II-D))
North Fork, etc. K32IF-D 32 0.2 kW 599 m (1,965 ft) 167626 44°29′36.8″N 109°10′9.5″W / 44.493556°N 109.169306°W / 44.493556; -109.169306 (K32IF-D))
Pinedale K19HJ-D 19 0.1 kW 185 m (607 ft) 167598 42°55′8.7″N 110°00′54.5″W / 42.919083°N 110.015139°W / 42.919083; -110.015139 (K19HJ-D)) Central Wyoming College
Rawlins K15MP-D 15 2.75 kW 292 m (958 ft) 56610 41°40′52.6″N 107°14′13.2″W / 41.681278°N 107.237000°W / 41.681278; -107.237000 (K15MP-D))
K19MG-D 19 0.32 kW 67 m (220 ft) 167613 41°46′15.7″N 107°14′16.9″W / 41.771028°N 107.238028°W / 41.771028; -107.238028 (K19MG-D))
Rock Springs K28JU-D 28 0.5 kW 372 m (1,220 ft) 167610 41°34′43″N 109°19′14″W / 41.57861°N 109.32056°W / 41.57861; -109.32056 (K28JU-D))
Sage Junction K17NG-D 17 2 kW 93 m (305 ft) 182684 41°49′8.3″N 110°58′26.8″W / 41.818972°N 110.974111°W / 41.818972; -110.974111 (K17NG-D)
Sheridan K15HK-D 15 4 kW 368 m (1,207 ft) 167612 44°37′25.7″N 107°07′5.1″W / 44.623806°N 107.118083°W / 44.623806; -107.118083 (K15HK-D)
Sundance K15KM-D 0.92 kW 270 m (886 ft) 181532 44°23′16.9″N 104°22′36.8″W / 44.388028°N 104.376889°W / 44.388028; -104.376889 (K15KM-D)
Sunlight Basin K29IG-D 29 0.22 kW 482 m (1,581 ft) 167609 44°45′14.2″N 109°22′30″W / 44.753944°N 109.37500°W / 44.753944; -109.37500 (K29IG-D)
Teton Village K16LM-D 16 0.5 kW 741 m (2,431 ft) 167611 43°35′47.4″N 110°52′10.4″W / 43.596500°N 110.869556°W / 43.596500; -110.869556 (K16LM-D)
Thermopolis KCWC-DT (DRT) 0.09 kW 71.8 m (236 ft) 10036 43°39′7.8″N 108°15′7.3″W / 43.652167°N 108.252028°W / 43.652167; -108.252028 (KCWC-DT (DRT))
Torrington K18JD-D 18 0.23 kW −12 m (−39 ft) 181528 42°04′34.8″N 104°11′29.8″W / 42.076333°N 104.191611°W / 42.076333; -104.191611 (K18JD-D)
Wood River K31JO-D 31 0.25 kW 218 m (715 ft) 167608 44°04′29.8″N 108°56′12.4″W / 44.074944°N 108.936778°W / 44.074944; -108.936778 (K31JO-D)
Wright K25LI-D 25 0.9 kW 223 m (732 ft) 181734 43°43′25.9″N 105°53′6″W / 43.723861°N 105.88500°W / 43.723861; -105.88500 (K25LI-D)

References

  1. ^ "American Bandscan: New low-band VHF TV station". 6 March 2007. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011.
  2. ^ "Final DTV Channel Plan from FCC97-115".

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