| Iowa Public Television | |
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| statewide Iowa | |
| Channels | Analog: see table below Digital: see table below |
| Subchannels | .1 PBS (IPTV Digital) .2 PBS (IPTV Learns) .3 PBS (IPTV World) |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | Iowa Public Broadcasting Board |
| First air date | 1969 |
| Call letters’ meaning | all stations: K 2nd letter: see table below Iowa Network |
| Former affiliations | NET (1969-1970) |
| Transmitter Power | see table below |
| Height | see table below |
| Facility ID | see table below |
| Transmitter Coordinates | see table below |
| Website | www.iptv.org |
Iowa Public Television (IPTV) is a statewide network of television stations in the state of Iowa. A member of the Public Broadcasting Service, it is owned by the Iowa Public Broadcasting Board, an agency of the state education department which holds the licenses for all the PBS member stations in the state. IPTV's studios are located in Johnston, Iowa; a suburb of Des Moines.
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IPTV began in 1969 as the Iowa Educational Broadcasting Network, after the state of Iowa purchased the former KDPS-TV from the Des Moines Public Schools and renamed it KDIN-TV. KDPS had signed on in 1959, taking National Educational Television programming from WOI-TV.
KIIN-TV in Iowa City, serving most of eastern Iowa, became the network's second affiliate in 1970. By 1977 the newly-renamed Iowa Public Broadcasting Network had eight full-power stations. The Iowa Public Television name was adopted in 1982. In 2003, it purchased KQCT-TV in Davenport, which repeated the programming of Quad Cities PBS station WQPT-TV in the Iowa side of the Quad Cities. The calls were changed to KQIN.
IPTV was originally run by the state's General Services Department before then-Gov. Terry E. Branstad signed a bill creating the Iowa Public Broadcasting Board on May 16, 1983. In 1986 IPTV became part of the state's Cultural Affairs Department, and on July 1, 1992, IPTV became part of the Iowa Department of Education.
Combined, the nine IPTV stations reach almost all of Iowa, plus portions of Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota and Missouri.
Nine full-power TV stations make up the network, all stations have callsigns beginning with a K, as licensed by the FCC, & ending in IN "IN" stands for Iowa Network.
Notes:
The network also has eight low-power repeater signals, located in Decorah (channel 16 K14AF), Ottumwa (channel 18 K18GU), Rock Rapids (channel 25 K25AA), Sibley (channel 33 K33AB), Fort Madison (channel 38 K38AB), Lansing (channel 41 K41AD), Keokuk (channel 44 K44AB), and Keosauqua (channel 54 K54AF - currently off the air for tower replacement).
Some of the transmitters are located a fair distance from their cities of license:
-KIIN's transmitter, while listed as residing in Iowa City (Johnson County), is actually situated north of West Branch in Cedar County. It was placed there so it could serve Cedar Rapids and the Quad Cities together.
-Also, while KHIN's city of license is Red Oak, the transmitter is actually between Oakland and Atlantic - not even in the same county as Red Oak.
-KRIN's city of license is Waterloo but its transmitter is located on the KCRG-TV tower in southern Buchanan County between Rowley and Walker co-located with Cedar Rapids licensed ABC affiliate station KCRG-TV, who owns the tower, as well as the new digital transmitter of Cedar Rapids based CBS affiliate station KGAN-TV, and the main transmitter for Cedar Falls-based NPR affiliate station KUNI-FM; meaning half of the stations on the tower used by KRIN are licensed to Cedar Rapids while the other half are licensed to Cedar Falls or Waterloo. The KCRG-TV tower is approximately half-way in between Cedar Rapids and Waterloo-Cedar Falls.
-KQIN's analog transmitter for UHF channel 36 is located in central Davenport, between the KWQC-TV studios (no connection to the station, other than giving its analog channel to KWQC for its post-transition DTV channel assignment) and the St. Ambrose University campus, near VanDerVeer Park. However, its digital transmitter for UHF channel 34 is co-located with a high majority of the rest of the digital transmitters for Quad Cities television stations along U.S. Highway 150 in Orion, Illinois. KQIN is thus the only IPTV station whose transmitter isn't located in Iowa.
-KYIN's transmitters are located in Mitchell County while its city of license is Mason City, located in Cerro Gordo County.
-KTIN's tower and transmitters are located in Bradgate which is in Humboldt County while its city of license, Fort Dodge, is in Webster County.
The stations broadcast a multiplexed digital signal:
| Sub-channel | Video | Programming |
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| x.1 | 1080i | IPTV HD |
| x.2 | 480i | IPTV Learns (Create for most of the day/PBS Kids between 5.30 p.m. to 10 p.m.) |
| x.3 | 480i | IPTV World (PBS World) |
Although IPTV provides PBS programming, it also produces original programs such as Iowa Press, a panel discussion show; Living in Iowa, a magazine show focusing on Iowa life; and Market to Market, a nationally distributed show about agribusiness. Dan Wardell is the Host of the Children's Television block, featuring programs such as "The Big Comfy Couch" and "Sesame Street".
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