KLRN
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San Antonio, Texas United States |
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| Branding | KLRN |
| Channels |
Digital: 9 (VHF) Virtual: 9 () |
| Affiliations | |
| Owner | Alamo Public Telecommunications Council |
| First air date | September 10, 1962 |
| Call letters' meaning | LeaRN |
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| Former affiliations | NET (1962–1970) |
| Transmitter power | 13.6 kW |
| Height | 286 m |
| Facility ID | 749 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°19′38″N 98°21′17″W / 29.32722°N 98.35472°WCoordinates: 29°19′38″N 98°21′17″W / 29.32722°N 98.35472°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.klrn.org |
KLRN, virtual and VHF digital channel 9, is a PBS member television station located in San Antonio, Texas, United States. The station is owned by the Alamo Public Telecommunications Council (formerly the Southwest Texas Public Broadcasting Council). KLRN maintains studio facilities located on Broadway Street in downtown San Antonio, and its transmitter is located on Foster Road (near Calaveras Lake) in the southeastern part of the city.
The station also serves as the default PBS member station for the Laredo market and Victoria market, which does not have one of its own.
The station first signed on the air on September 10, 1962; it was founded by the Southwest Texas Public Broadcasting Council. Unusually for television stations of that time, it was licensed to serve two markets – San Antonio and the market to its adjacent northeast, Austin. This was due in part because Austin had been allocated UHF channel 18 for non-commercial use, and UHF was not considered viable at the time (television set manufacturers were not required to equip televisions with UHF tuners until the Federal Communications Commission passed the All-Channel Receiver Act in 1961, however UHF tuners would not included on all newer sets until 1964).
KLRN's transmitter was located roughly halfway between San Antonio and Austin on land located just north of New Braunfels, a major suburb of San Antonio. The station's main studios were located at the Jesse H. Jones Communications Center in Austin, on rented space at the University of Texas. Its San Antonio operations were based at a satellite studio located at Cambridge Elementary School until 1968, when it moved to rented space at the Institute of Texan Cultures on the HemisFair grounds.
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