KAWE

{{short description|PBS member station in Bemidji, Minnesota}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox television station dual

| name1 = KAWE

| city = Bemidji, Minnesota

| logo = Lakeland PBS logo 2020s.jpg

| logo_size = 220px

| branding = Lakeland PBS

| digital1 = 9 (VHF)

| virtual1 = 9

| translators = See {{section link||Translators}}

| affiliations = {{ubl|9.1/22.1: PBS|for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}}}

| airdate1 = {{start date and age|1980|6|1|p=y}}

| country = United States

| callsign_meaning1 = Derived from the Ojibwe word 'akawe' generally meaning 'first in a line of succession'

| former_channel_numbers1 = {{ubl|Analog: 9 (VHF, 1980–2009)|Digital: 18 (UHF, until 2009)}}

| owner = Northern Minnesota Public Television, Inc.

| erp1 = 27.0 kW

| haat1 = {{convert|334.7|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}

| facility_id1 = 49578

| coordinates1 = {{coord|47|42|3|N|94|29|15|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KAWE}}

| licensing_authority = FCC

| website = {{URL|https://lptv.org/}}

| name2 = KAWB

| city2 = Brainerd, Minnesota

| digital2 = 28 (UHF)

| virtual2 = 22

| airdate2 = {{start date and age|1988|3|1|p=y}}

| callsign_meaning2 = KAWE Brainerd

| former_channel_numbers2 = Analog: 22 (UHF, 1988–2009)

| erp2 = 137.5 kW

| haat2 = {{convert|227|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}

| facility_id2 = 49579

| coordinates2 = {{coord|46|25|21|N|94|27|42|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KAWB}}

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KAWE (channel 9) is a PBS member television station in Bemidji, Minnesota, United States, owned by Northern Minnesota Public Television, Inc. The station's studios are located on Grant Avenue Northeast in Bemidji, and its transmitter is located southeast of Blackduck, Minnesota.

KAWB (channel 22) in Brainerd operates as a full-time satellite of KAWE; this station's transmitter is located near East Gull Lake, Minnesota. KAWB covers areas of central Minnesota that receive a marginal to non-existent over-the-air signal from KAWE, although there is significant overlap between the two stations' contours otherwise. KAWB is a straight simulcast of KAWE; on-air references to KAWB are limited to Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-mandated hourly station identifications during programming.

The two stations are collectively branded as Lakeland PBS.{{cite web|title=About|url=https://lptv.org/about/|website=Lakeland PBS|access-date=January 27, 2018|date=September 9, 2013}} The network first took to the air on June 1, 1980, and was formerly known as Lakeland Public Television; it re-branded on January 8, 2018, to better align its brand with PBS. It is the only full-power television broadcasting operation based in north central Minnesota, an area that is served mainly by translators of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul television stations.

Lakeland PBS utilizes KAWB's channel 22 position on DirecTV and Dish Network's Twin Cities local lineups to avert confusion with Fox owned-and-operated station KMSP-TV (channel 9) in Minneapolis.