KSPS-TV
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| KSPS-TV | |
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| Spokane, Washington | |
| Channels | Analog: 7 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | Spokane Public Schools (Spokane School District #81) |
| First air date | April 24, 1967 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Spokane Public Schools |
| Former affiliations | NET (1967-1970) |
| Transmitter Power | 316 kW (analog) 21.6 kW (digital) |
| Height | 558 m (both) |
| Facility ID | 61956 |
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| Website | www.ksps.org |
KSPS-TV, channel 7, is the PBS station in Spokane, Washington. It also has significant viewership in the province of Alberta, Canada, including the cities of Edmonton and Calgary. The station broadcasts its main signal from its site at Krell Hill, a.k.a. "Tower Mountain".
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[edit] History
The station first signed on the air on April 24, 1967 from the basement of Spokane Public Schools' Adams Elementary. A series of school levy failures in the early 1970s forced the station to secure alternate funding through other sources, and in 1972, Friends of Seven was founded to provide financial support to KSPS.
[edit] Programming
KSPS provides a mix of diverse programing from PBS and local sources, as well as instructional programming. The station's main signal reaches parts of Washington and Idaho, and it operates a large translator network covering parts of Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana. It is also carried on cable in parts of British Columbia and Alberta, and on satellite systems across western Canada.
The majority of the station's donations from telethons come from Calgary and Edmonton, and most of the station's members are from those two cities. Calgary and Edmonton both have populations which are far larger than the entire population of the Spokane market. It is one of five local Spokane TV stations seen in Canada on the Star Choice satellite provider.
It was the first station to carry Mary Ann Wilson's Sit and Be Fit program.
[edit] Tower Collapse
On November 29, 2006, at approximately 2:50 AM Pacific Standard Time, the top 200 feet (60 meters) of the station's antenna at the Krell Hill transmission site collapsed, disrupting its off-air signal. The circumstances regarding the tower collapse are unknown. An engineering crew is surveying the site and the structure to determine the cause of the collapse, and if there is any way to save the tower. Other area television broadcasters, as well as Comcast cable, have promised to lend short-term support, in the event the tower is unsalvageable.
Cable and satellite feeds in the US and Canada were not affected, as fiber is used to transmit its signal to the headends. It is unclear if service via low-power repeaters has been affected. [1]
[edit] Digital Television
The station's over the air digital channel is multiplexed:
Digital channels
| Virtual Channel |
Physical RF Channel |
Video | Aspect | Programming |
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| 7.1 | 8.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | Main KSPS programming / PBS HD |
| 7.2 | 8.2 | 480i | 4:3 | World View |
| 7.3 | 8.3 | 480i | 4:3 | Create |
[edit] Translators
Idaho
- Bonners Ferry - Channel 56 *Query the FCC's TV station database for K56AB
- Couer D' Alene - Channel 44 *Query the FCC's TV station database for K44EC
- Lewiston/Clarkston - Channel 53 *Query the FCC's TV station database for K53GN
- Priest Lake - Channel 5/31
- Sandpoint - Channel 24 *Query the FCC's TV station database for K24DW
Montana
- Kalispell/Big Horn/Lakeside, MT - Channel 67 *Query the FCC's TV station database for K67CZ
- Kalispell/Whitefish/Columbia Falls, Mt - Channel 29 *Query the FCC's TV station database for K29AA
- Libby and surrounding area, MT - Channel 68 *Query the FCC's TV station database for K68AS
- Missoula, MT - Channel 32*Query the FCC's TV station database for K32EU
- Troy, MT - Channel 13
Oregon
- Milton Freewater, OR - Channel 29 *Query the FCC's TV station database for K29EG
Washington
- Brewster/Pateros, WA - Channel 56 *Query the FCC's TV station database for K56BK
- Cashmere/Peshastin/Dryden, WA - Channel 57 *Query the FCC's TV station database for K57AY
- Ellesford/Tonaskat, WA - Channel 67
- Ephrata/Soap Lake, WA - Channel 60
- Goat Mtn., WA - Channel 44
- Lake Wenatchee, WA - Channel 13 *Query the FCC's TV station database for K13SQ
- Levenworth, WA - Channel 13
- Malott, WA - Channel 67
- Manson/Chelan, WA - Channel 07 *Query the FCC's TV station database for K07JO
- Moses Lake, WA - Channel 52
- Odessa, WA - Channel 64 *Query the FCC's TV station database for K64AB
- Omak/Okanagan, WA - Channel 13 *Query the FCC's TV station database for K17EV
- Prescott, WA - Channel 30
- Quincy, WA - Channel 50*Query the FCC's TV station database for K50BO
- Wenatchee, WA - Channel 67 *Query the FCC's TV station database for K67CD
[edit] External links
- KSPS - Public Television
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KSPS-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KSPS-TV
[edit] References
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