Iowa Public Television
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| statewide Iowa United States |
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| Channels | Digital: see table below |
| Subchannels | see table below |
| Affiliations | PBS (1970–present) |
| Owner | Iowa Public Broadcasting Board |
| First air date | 1959 (KDIN/Des Moines) 1969 (Statewide network launch) |
| Call letters' meaning | all stations: K 2nd letter: see table below Iowa Public TV Network |
| Former callsigns | see notes below |
| Former channel number(s) | see table below |
| Former affiliations | NET (1969–1970) |
| Transmitter power | see table below |
| Height | see table below |
| Facility ID | see table below |
| Transmitter coordinates | see table below |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Public Television Profile Public Television CDBS |
| Website | site.iptv.org |
Iowa Public Television (IPTV) is a network of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member stations in the state of Iowa. IPTV is owned by the Iowa Public Broadcasting Board, an agency of the state education department which holds the licenses for all the PBS member stations in the state. IPTV's studios are located in Johnston, Iowa; a suburb of Des Moines.
Iowa is a pioneer in educational broadcasting; it is home to two of the oldest educational radio broadcast stations in the world, the University of Iowa's WSUI and Iowa State University's WOI.
The electrical engineering department at the State University of Iowa (SUI) in Iowa City demonstrated television at an exhibit at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on August 28, 1931. J. L. Potter supervised the project. At the conclusion of the Iowa State Fair, the television experiment was set up in the communications laboratory of the electrical engineering building at The University of Iowa in Iowa City.
By 1933, The University of Iowa received an FCC license for experimental TV station W9XK, later W9XUI providing twice a week video programming, with WSUI AM providing the audio channel. By 1939, the FCC allocated TV channels 1 and 12 for the W9XUI television station. This early attempt at educational broadcasting ended with US entrance into World War II. The concept of pure educational television, which Dr. E.B. Kurtz and his Iowa colleagues pioneered, was buried by the commercial television system which dominated development of the electronic media in Iowa after World War II.
WOI-TV in Ames began broadcast operations in 1950, as a sister station to WOI radio, and had carried some National Educational Television programming until Des Moines Public Schools signed on KDPS-TV as the educational station for central Iowa in 1959. However, in the 1960s the only other areas of the state with a clear signal from an educational station were the southwest (from NET Nebraska's KYNE-TV in Omaha, Nebraska), the northwest (from South Dakota ETV's KUSD-TV in Vermillion), and in eastern Iowa from The University of Iowa's WSUI-TV in Iowa City.
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