Nebraska Educational Telecommunications
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| statewide Nebraska United States |
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| Branding | NET |
| Slogan | Nebraska's PBS and NPR Stations |
| Channels | Digital: see table below |
| Affiliations |
Television: PBS (1970–present) Radio: NPR (1989-present) |
| Owner |
KUON: The University of Nebraska Others: Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission |
| First air date | 1 November 1954 (television) 10 October 1989 (radio) 1965 (Statewide network launch) |
| Call letters' meaning | all stations, except University Of Nebraska as Lincoln affiliate: K 2nd letter: see table below N Ebraska |
| Former affiliations |
Television: NET (1954–1970) |
| 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: |
Educational Telecommunications Profile Educational Telecommunications CDBS |
| Website | netnebraska.org |
Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET) is a state network of public radio and television stations in the U.S. state of Nebraska and is based in Lincoln. It is operated by the Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission. The television stations are all members of PBS, while the radio stations are members of NPR.
The network is headquartered in the Terry M. Carpenter & Jack G. McBride Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Center which is located at 1800 N. 33rd Street on the East campus of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, and has a satellite studio in Omaha.
Nebraska was one of the first states in the nation to begin the groundwork for educational broadcasting. The University of Nebraska successfully applied to have channel 18 in Lincoln allocated for educational use in 1951.
In 1954, however, John Fetzer, owner of KOLN-TV, offered to donate his station's old channel location on channel 12 (it had recently moved to channel 10) to UNL. This allowed UNL to use more signal at less cost. UNL quickly jumped at this proposal, and KUON-TV went on the air on November 1 from KOLN-TV's studios. It was operated in trust for UNL until 1956. In 1960, the Nebraska Council for Educational Television was created by six school districts in Nebraska. By 1961, 5 VHF and 3 UHF channels were allocated for educational use in Nebraska—the largest set ever approved for educational use in a single state. In 1963, the state legislature, per a committee's recommendation, approved plans for a statewide educational television network under the control of the Nebraska Educational Television Commission. A deal was quickly reached in which Lincoln's KUON-TV would remain under NU's ownership, but serve as the new state network's flagship.
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