Kentucky Educational Television
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| Type | Non-commercial Broadcast television network |
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| Branding | KET (general) KET: The Kentucky Network (secondary) |
| Country | United States |
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First air date
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September 23, 1968 |
| Availability |
Kentucky (statewide) southern Illinois southern Indiana southeast Missouri southwest Ohio northern middle and northwest Tennessee far western Virginia western West Virginia |
| Slogan | Explore Kentucky, Explore the World. |
| TV transmitters | 16 |
| Headquarters | Lexington, Kentucky, United States |
| Owner | Kentucky Authority for Educational Television |
| Parent | Commonwealth of Kentucky |
| Established | 1962 |
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Launch date
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September 23, 1968 |
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Picture format
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480i (SDTV) (1968–2008) 720p (HDTV) (2008–present) |
| Affiliation | PBS |
| Affiliates | see article |
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Former affiliations
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NET (1968–1970) |
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Official website
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Kentucky Educational Television (also known as KET: The Kentucky Network, or simply KET) is a state network of PBS member television stations serving the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. It is owned and operated by the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television, which holds the licenses for almost all of the PBS member stations licensed in the state with the exception of WKYU-TV (channel 24) in Bowling Green. KET is the largest PBS state network in the United States; the broadcast signals of its sixteen stations cover almost all of the state, as well as parts of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
The network's offices, network center and primary studio facilities are located at the O. Leonard Press Telecommunications Center on Cooper Drive in Lexington, adjacent to the campus of the University of Kentucky. (It should be noted that KET has no other direct affiliation with the university.) KET also has production centers in Louisville as well as at the Kentucky State Capitol Annex in Frankfort. KET carries national programming from PBS and American Public Television along with a wide range of local programming, basic skills and workplace education.
KET was founded by O. Leonard Press, a member of the University of Kentucky faculty, who was a pioneer in educational broadcasting. Before coming to the university, Press had developed the weekly broadcast from the National Press Club, which has aired for over half a century. In the mid-1950s, he taped a popular anthropology course, and the response to the telecourses was positive enough for Press and two of his colleagues to consider founding an educational television station at the University of Kentucky. This was a natural choice given UK's history in educational broadcasting. UK had been involved in broadcasting in one form or another since 1921, and operated WBKY (now WUKY), the nation's oldest educational radio station on the FM dial.
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