Albuquerque, New Mexico United States |
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Branding | New Mexico PBS |
Channels |
Digital: 35 (UHF) Virtual: 5 () |
Subchannels | 5.1 PBS 5.2 PBS Kids 5.3 FNX |
Affiliations | PBS (1970–present) |
Owner |
University of New Mexico and Albuquerque Public Schools (The Regents of the University of New Mexico & the Board of Education of the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
First air date | May 1, 1958 |
Call letters' meaning | New Mexico Education |
Sister station(s) | KNMD-TV |
Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 5 (VHF, 1958–2009) |
Former affiliations |
NET (1958–1970) DT2: V-me (2007-2017) |
Transmitter power | 250 kW |
Height | 1287 m |
Facility ID | 55528 |
Transmitter coordinates | 35°12′50.2″N 106°27′1.7″W / 35.213944°N 106.450472°W |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
Website | www.newmexicopbs.org |
NET (1958–1970)
KNME-TV, branded on-air as New Mexico PBS, is a non-commercial educational television station based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. It is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member station, and broadcasts on digital channel 35 (virtual channel 5) that produces documentaries, shorts and weekly television series. It is jointly owned by the University of New Mexico and Albuquerque Public Schools. The station has studios located on the North Campus of UNM, and the transmitter is based from Sandia Crest.
New Mexico PBS produces several television programs, including:
KNME also operates the satellite service WestLink ([1]), which shares programming with other public television stations and several commercial clients. Satellite interviews from New Mexico on news networks like CNN often originate at New Mexico PBS.
From 1995 to 2010, KNME operated TALNET (an acronym for Teach and Learn Network.), an educational cable channel for Albuquerque. It broadcast a mix of PBS and Annenberg media programming and local school board meetings on Comcast cable channel 96 in Albuquerque.
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
On January 18, 2017 PBS Kids replaced the Spanish-language V-me network which had aired on channel 5.2 for about ten years with V-me planning to transition to a commercial cable channel in 2017. The channel however had never caught on with Spanish speaking audiences. Since Fall 2016 KNME carries First Nations Experience (FNX) a channel devoted to Native American programming.