KCTS-TV
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Seattle - Tacoma, Washington United States |
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| City | Seattle, Washington |
| Branding | KCTS 9 |
| Slogan | InquisiTV |
| Channels |
Digital: 9 (VHF) Virtual: 9 () |
| Translators | 18 K18AD-D Wenatchee |
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| Owner | Cascade Public Media |
| First air date | December 7, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning | King County Community Television Service |
| Sister station(s) | KYVE |
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| Former affiliations | NET (1954–1970) |
| Transmitter power | 21.7 kW |
| Height | 249 m (817 ft) |
| Facility ID | 33749 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 47°36′58″N 122°18′28″W / 47.61611°N 122.30778°WCoordinates: 47°36′58″N 122°18′28″W / 47.61611°N 122.30778°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
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Yakima, Washington United States |
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| Branding | KYVE 47 |
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Digital: 21 (UHF) Virtual: 47 () |
| Subchannels | 47.1 PBS 47.2 PBS Kids 47.3 Create |
| Translators | 17 K17IL-D Ellensburg |
| Affiliations | PBS (1970-present) |
| Owner | Cascade Public Media |
| First air date | November 1, 1962 |
| Call letters' meaning | Yakima Valley Educational |
| Sister station(s) | KCTS-TV |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 47 (UHF, 1962–2009) |
| Former affiliations | NET (1962–1970) |
| Transmitter power | 50 kW |
| Height | 280 m (919 ft) |
| Facility ID | 33752 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 46°31′58″N 120°30′33″W / 46.53278°N 120.50917°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KCTS-TV, channel 9, is a non-commercial educational television station licensed to Seattle, Washington, USA. KCTS-TV is the primary member station of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) for the Seattle-Tacoma television market. The station's offices and studios are located at the northeast corner of Seattle Center, and its transmitter is on Capitol Hill in Seattle.
KCTS-TV also operates KYVE (channel 47) in Yakima, Washington, which serves as the PBS member station for the western portion of the Yakima/Tri-Cities market. KYVE has its own studio on Second Street in Yakima, though some support operations are based at KCTS' studios in Seattle.
KCTS first went on the air on December 7, 1954, broadcasting from the campus of the University of Washington, the station's original licensee, and using equipment donated by KING-TV owner Dorothy Bullitt.
During the 1950s and 1960s, KCTS primarily supplied classroom instructional programs used in Washington State's K–12 schools, plus National Educational Television programs. Outside of schoolrooms, KCTS' audience among the general public was somewhat limited, and most programming was in black-and-white until the mid-1970s.
In 1970, National Educational Television was absorbed into the newly created Public Broadcasting Service. As a PBS member station, KCTS began offering a vastly enhanced scope of programming for the general public, including British programming. KCTS is perhaps best known for producing/distributing the popular PBS Kids show Bill Nye the Science Guy, as well as other programs such as Students by Nature (not a PBS-distributed program), The Miracle Planet, and the annual televised high school academic competition KYVE Apple Bowl, among other shows.
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