KWSU-TV

KWSU-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 10, is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Pullman, Washington, United States. The station is owned by Washington State University. KWSU-TV's studios are located in the Murrow Communications Center on WSU's main campus in Pullman, and its transmitter is located on Kamiak Butte near Palouse, Washington.

KWSU-TV
Pullman/Clarkston, Washington
United States
CityPullman, Washington
ChannelsDigital: 10 (VHF)
Virtual: 10 (PSIP)
BrandingNorthwest Public Broadcasting
Programming
Affiliations10.1: PBS (1970–present)
10.2: KWSU Create
Ownership
OwnerWashington State University
KWSU (AM), KRFA-FM, KJEM-FM
History
First air date
September 24, 1962 (1962-09-24)
Former call signs
KWSC-TV (1962–1969)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
10 (VHF, 1962–2008)
Digital:
17 (UHF, until 2009)
NET (1962–1970)
Call sign meaning
Washington
State
University
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID71024
ERP23 kW
35 kW (application)
HAAT408 m (1,339 ft)
Transmitter coordinates46°51′42.3″N 117°10′32.5″W
Translator(s)33 (UHF) Spokane
K34QC-D Lewiston, ID
Links
Public license information
Profile
LMS
Websitewww.nwpb.org

KWSU-TV's main signal serves a corner of the Spokane market as a "beta" station through the Program Differentiation Plan complementing KSPS-TV and Idaho Public Television. The station is carried on the Spokane DirecTV and Dish Network feeds, expanding its potential audience to over 600,000 people in Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana. KWSU-TV is also available on Xfinity systems in the Spokane area as a PEG channel, and operates a translator on UHF channel 33 in Spokane.

KWSU-TV operates sister station KTNW (channel 31) in Richland, Washington, which serves as a full PBS member for the Tri-Cities area. Although this station maintains its own studios on the WSU Tri-Cities campus in Richland, master control and most internal operations are based at KWSU-TV's facilities.

Collectively branded as Northwest Public Broadcasting, the two stations cover southeastern Washington and north central Idaho as well as Wallowa County, Oregon.

History
Old KWSU/KTNW logo from 2003 to 2006

KWSU signed on the air on September 24, 1962 as KWSC-TV (standing for Washington State College), and changed its callsign to KWSU-TV in 1969, a year before the launch of PBS.

The station used the Washington State University cougar logo as its official logo until 1976.

KWSU signed on KTNW on channel 31 on October 18, 1987. Prior to 1987, the channel 31 allotment in the Tri-Cities was used by KTRX-TV, based in Kennewick, Washington, which was on the air briefly in the late 1950s.

KWSU discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 10, on February 17, 2009, the original date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009).[1] The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 17 to its analog-era VHF channel 10.

From 2017 to 2018, KWSU and KTNW used the nwptv branding. Since 2018, both stations have switched to the Northwest Public Broadcasting branding, which was a modified version of the Northwest Public Television branding used from 2006 to 2017.

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP short name Programming [2]
10.11080i16:9KWSU-DTMain KWSU-TV programming / PBS
10.2480i4:3KWSU-RCCreate

KWSU offered ResearchChannel on subchannel 10.2 until that service was discontinued in August 2010.

See also

References
  2. http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KWSU#station


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