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Kentucky Educational Television
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| KET (Kentucky Educational Television) |
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| Statewide Kentucky | |
| Branding | KET |
| Slogan | The Kentucky Network |
| Channels | Analog: (various, see article) Digital: (various, see FCC data in "External Links") |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | Kentucky Authority for Educational TV |
| Founded | September 23, 1968 |
| Call letters meaning | (see article) |
| Former affiliations | NET (1968-1970) |
| Transmitter Power | (see FCC data in "External Links") |
| Website | www.ket.org/ |
The Kentucky Educational Television network a.k.a. "KET, The Kentucky Network" is Kentucky's statewide public television network. It delivers the PBS national schedule plus a wide range of local programming, adult education and college credit courses. The network, headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky is operated by the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television. It is the largest PBS network in the nation, operating all of the PBS affiliates licensed to Kentucky with the sole exception of WKYU-TV channel 24 in Bowling Green. Its main headquarters and studios are located adjacent to the University of Kentucky campus, although it has no direct affiliation with the school.
KET was the brainchild of O. Leonard Press, a public relations employee at the University of Kentucky. In the mid-1950s, he taped a popular anthropology course, and the response was enough for him and two of his colleagues to consider founding an educational television station at UK. When they couldn't get the money, they decided to try for a statewide educational television network.
The idea gained little momentum until 1959, when Press addressed the local Rotary Club in the state capital, Frankfort, and a story about it appeared in the Louisville Courier-Journal. After landing support from UK officials, what was supposed to be a short meeting with Governor Bert T. Combs turned into a proposal to start the network. The Kentucky Authority for Educational Television was created in 1962, with Press as executive director (a position he held until 1991). However, the project made little progress until 1965, when a donation from Ashland Oil founder Paul Blazer allowed the authority to acquire its first 13 transmitters. KET finally took to the air on September 23, 1968.
KET is best known for its video courses in basic skills and workplace education. It also began expanding its programming well before the digital television era, when its acquisition of Louisville PBS station WKPC-TV allowed it to start a second service on the Louisville station it already owned.
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KET's television service consists of six channels plus a high definition broadcast service in Louisville. Its original service, KET1 is its largest, consisting of 16 transmitters and 3 translators covering all of Kentucky and portions of Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia.
| Station | City | Also Serves | Callsign Meaning | Founded | Repeaters |
| WKAS 25 | Ashland | Huntington-Charleston, WV-Portsmouth, OH | Kentucky AShland | September 23, 1968 | Louisa: W10AR ch.10 |
| WKGB 53 | Bowling Green | Kentucky Green Bowling or Kentucky's Good Bowling Green; WKBG was not available in 1968 | September 23, 1968 | ||
| WCVN 54 | Covington | Cincinnati, OH | CoVingtoN | February 8, 1969 | Falmouth: W56AM ch.56 |
| WKZT 23 | Elizabethtown | Kentucky EliZabethTown | September 23, 1968 | ||
| WKHA 35 | Hazard | Kentucky HAzard | September 23, 1968 | ||
| WKLE 46 | Lexington-Richmond-Frankfort (flagship station) | Kentucky LExington | September 23, 1968 | ||
| WKPC 15 | Louisville | Kentucky Park Central (for Central Park) or Kentucky Public Communications | September 15, 1958 (as separate station; acquired by KET in 1998) | ||
| WKMA 35 | Madisonville | Kentucky MAdisonville | September 23, 1968 | ||
| WKMR 38 | Morehead | Kentucky MoRehead | September 23, 1968 | Augusta: W56AT ch.56 | |
| WKMU 21 | Murray-Mayfield | Kentucky MUrray | September 23, 1968 | ||
| WKOH 31 | Owensboro-Henderson | Evansville, IN | Kentucky OHio Valley, or Kentucky Owensboro Henderson | September 10, 1978 | |
| WKON 52 | Owenton | Kentucky OweNton | September 23, 1968 | ||
| WKPD 29 | Paducah | Harrisburg, IL/Cape Girardeau, MO | Kentucky PaDucah | August 14, 1971 as commercial independent WDXR-TV; acquired by KET January 3, 1981 | |
| WKPI 22 | Pikeville, Kentucky | Kentucky PIkeville | February 24, 1968 | ||
| WKSO 29 | Somerset, Kentucky | Kentucky SOmerset | September 23, 1968 |
KET2 based on KET's original Louisville station, WKMJ channel 68 airs the national PBS schedule, local programming including shows focused on the Louisville area, children's shows, how-to series, documentaries and public affairs programs. Outside of Louisville, KET2 can be seen on cable, as well as on KET's digital signals.
| Station | City | Callsign Meaning | Founded |
| WKMJ 68 | Louisville, Kentucky | Kentucky Media & Journalism | September 14, 1970 |
KET3 is the statewide instructional television service. Available on digital.
KET4 offers KET's digital service in prime time and the Annenberg/CPB Channel at other times. Available on digital. In Louisville, this service was also available around-the-clock on WKMJ's digital signal, but has since been discontinued, due to PBS's increase of fees for the usage of the national PBSHD channel. Instead, KET will reinvest the money for new digital equipment, plus the ability to present local and delayed programming in high-definition. This increase of PBSHD fees has also led to KET scheduling HD programming themselves, rather than merely picking up the national feed. [1]
KET5 and KET6 feature live coverage of the Kentucky House of Representatives and Senate respectively. Available on digital while the state General Assembly is in session.
KET was affiliated with NET when the network was first established on September 23, 1968.
Louisville's WKPC and WKMJ are the only KET stations to have their transmitters outside of Kentucky -- their transmitters are located at the Tower Farm in Floyds Knobs, Indiana, just north of New Albany. Because of its location and signal strength (according to FCC data), WKPC and WKMJ cover more of Indiana than Kentucky. (Similarly, Covington's WCVN covers more of Ohio than Kentucky, although its transmitter is located in Kentucky.)
KET, among its many educational programs, runs a Distance Learning program. The program has course offerings for Latin, Humanities, Physics and German language. The program offers leveled courses ranging from introductory to advanced placement classes. The program is offered primarily for high school students in Kentucky, for whom it is offered tuition free. However, out-of-state schools may enroll students in the course for a small tuition fee.
The aim of the program is to provide a full course in the aforementioned subjects for schools who do not offer a particular class. Often schools seek distance learning as a temporary solution in cases of funding cuts which lead to dismissal of teachers or discontinuation of the teaching of certain subjects altogether. The program also is popular with parents of homeschooled children.
The program was established in 1989 primarily for high school students in Kentucky. The direct-to-school model became possible after a substantial expansion of the network's headquarters (now dubbed "The O. Leonard Press Telecommunications Center") and legislative funding to provide a satellite receiver for every school and public library in the state. The course was originally administered and taught via live satellite broadcasts directly into classrooms with two-way keypads for real-time student-teacher interaction. Homework, tests, quizzes, etc. were distributed by modem and mail.
Since the mid nineties, KET's Distance Learning program has migrated from broadcast lessons to instruction via KET's website and multimedia lessons on tape, CD, and DVD.
- KET official Web site
- KET Distance Learning official site
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WKLE
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WKMU
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WKGB
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WKSO
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WKON
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WKPI
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WKPD
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WKMA
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WKHA
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WKOH
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WKZT
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WKMJ
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WKAS
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WKMR
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WCVN
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WKPC
- Query the FCC's TV station database for W10AR
- Query the FCC's TV station database for W56AT
- Query the FCC's TV station database for W56AM
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WLJC-DT 7 (TBN) - WLEX 18 (NBC) - WKYT 27 (CBS) (The CW on DT2) - WTVQ 36 (ABC) - WKLE 46 (PBS/KET) - WDKY 56 (Fox) - WBLU-LP 62 (RTN/MNTV) - WUPX 67 (ION) |
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WETP 2 (PBS/ETPtv) - WCYB 5 (NBC) (The CW on DT2) - WOPI 9 (Ind) - WJHL 11 (CBS) - WKPT 19 (ABC) - WAPK 36 (MNTV) - WEMT 39 (FOX) - WAGV 44 (Ind) - WSBN 47/WMSY 52 (PBS) |
| See also Broadcast Television in the Knoxville, Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville, Charlotte, Roanoke/Lynchburg, Bluefield/Beckley and Lexington markets |
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WBKO 13 (ABC, FOX on DT2, The CW on DT3) - WKYU 24 (PBS) - WNKY 40 (NBC, CBS on DT2) - WKGB 53 (PBS/KET) - WKUW-LP 60 (Ind) - WKUG-LP 62 (Ind) - WKUT-LP 64 (Ind) Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations Local cable television channels |
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Local television stations Broadcast television available on cable only |
| See also Broadcast television in the St. Louis, Missouri and Louisville, Kentucky markets |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC and Other Stations in Kentucky |
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Categories: Television stations in Kentucky | Television stations in Cincinnati, Ohio | Television stations in Louisville | Television stations in Huntington / Charleston | Television stations in the Tri-Cities, Tennessee | Television stations in Bowling Green | Television stations in Evansville | Television stations in Paducah / Cape Girardeau / Harrisburg | PBS member networks | Legislature broadcasters in the United States | Television channels and stations established in 1968 | Educational and instructional television channels