KNME-TV
{{Short description|Television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico}}
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{{Primary sources|date=February 2009}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign = KNME-TV
| logo = NMPBS 2019 logo.png
| logo_size = 220px
| location = Albuquerque–Santa Fe, New Mexico
| city = Albuquerque, New Mexico
| branding = NM PBS
| analog =
| digital = 35 (UHF)
| virtual = 5
| subchannels =
| translators = see {{section link||Translators}}
| affiliations = {{ubl|5.1: PBS|for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}}}
| owner = {{ubl|University of New Mexico|Albuquerque Public Schools}}
| licensee = The Regents of the University of New Mexico & the Board of Education of the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico
| country = United States
| founded =
| airdate = {{start date and age|1958|5|1|p=y}}
| last_airdate =
| callsign_meaning = New Mexico Education
| sister_stations = KNMD-TV
| former_callsigns =
| former_channel_numbers = Analog: 5 (VHF, 1958–2009)
| former_affiliations = NET (1958–1970)
| erp = 250 kW
| haat = {{convert|1287|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| class =
| facility_id = 55528
| coordinates = {{coord|35|12|49.8|N|106|27|3.3|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority = FCC
| website = {{URL|https://www.newmexicopbs.org/}}
}}
KNME-TV (channel 5), branded New Mexico PBS or NM PBS, is a PBS member television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. Jointly owned by the University of New Mexico and Albuquerque Public Schools, it is a sister station to Santa Fe–licensed KNMD-TV (channel 5). The two stations share studios on UNM's North Campus on University Boulevard Northeast in Albuquerque; KNME-TV's transmitter is located atop Sandia Crest.
History
In 1957, the University of New Mexico Board of Regents and Albuquerque Public Schools reached a deal to jointly file for the channel 5 educational allocation in Albuquerque.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73542091/|accessdate=March 15, 2021|page=2|work=Albuquerque Journal|title=Regents Approve TV Agreement With Schools|date=March 12, 1957}} The application was filed with the Federal Communications Commission on July 19 and granted on October 23.{{Cite web|url= https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=82881 |title= History Cards for KNME-TV|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}} (Guide to reading History Cards) Plans were drawn up to use the new station to beam junior college classes to outlying areas,{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73542504/|accessdate=March 15, 2021|date=August 21, 1957|work=Espanola Valley News|title=Valley To Get Classroom TV|page=3}} while a studio was set up in a converted sorority house on the UNM campus.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73542679/|accessdate=March 15, 2021|date=December 24, 1957|work=Espanola Valley News|title=Predict TV College Here Next February|page=7}}
Edith Buchanan's English class was the first program broadcast over KNME-TV on May 1, 1958.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73542868/|accessdate=March 15, 2021|date=May 3, 1958|work=Albuquerque Journal|page=15|title=Educational TV Station Begins Four-Day Schedule}} By 1960, the station had expanded from college courses to provide programs for Albuquerque public school students in science and Spanish.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73543608/|date=August 14, 1960|work=Albuquerque Journal|page=A-13|title=Channel 5 Schedules Extended Instructional TV Programming|accessdate=March 15, 2021}} That same year, a Ford Foundation grant enabled the station to purchase its first video tape equipment.{{Cite news|url=https://www.abqjournal.com/1266390|date=January 11, 2019|title=New Mexico PBS station KNME marks 60 years on the air|first=Adrian|last=Gomez|work=Albuquerque Journal|accessdate=March 15, 2021}} In 1969, KNME began live coverage of the New Mexico state legislature.{{r|sixty}}
Television programs produced by New Mexico PBS
New Mexico PBS produces several television programs, including:
- ¡Colores! – a weekly art series with stories devoted to the creative spirit.
- [http://www.newmexicopbs.org/productions/newmexicoinfocus/ New Mexico in Focus] – a weekly, prime-time news magazine show covering the events, issues, and people that are shaping life in New Mexico and the Southwest.
- [http://www.newmexicopbs.org/productions/publicsquare/ Public Square] – community engagement through meaningful dialogue.
Local programs have also included reports leading up to and after the New Mexico State Penitentiary riot and the Peabody Award-winning series Surviving Columbus on the Pueblo Indians (1992).{{r|sixty}}
Other initiatives
KNME also operates the satellite service WestLink, 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. Shows distributed on WestLink include Democracy Now! and Creative Living with Sheryl Borden.{{r|sixty}}
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.
Technical information
=Subchannels=
The station's signal is multiplexed:
| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KNME-TV{{cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KNME#station|title=RabbitEars TV Query for KNME|website=RabbitEars|accessdate=March 21, 2025}} ! scope = "col" | Channel ! scope = "col" | Res. ! scope = "col" | Aspect ! scope = "col" | Short name ! scope = "col" | Programming |
| scope = "row" | 5.1 |
|---|
| scope = "row" | 5.2 |
| scope = "row" | 5.3
| FNX || FNX |
| scope = "row" | 5.4
| 1080i || World || World |
| scope = "row" | 5.5
| 480i || Create || Create |
KNME-TV was first in New Mexico to broadcast a digital signal, signing on KNME-DT in 2001.{{r|sixty}} 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.{{cite news|title=New Mexico PBS Turns Off Spanish-Language Network|url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/new-mexico-pbs-turns-spanish-language-network-162251|work=Broadcasting & Cable|first=Diana|last=Marszalek|date=January 6, 2017|accessdate=March 15, 2021}} 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.
On February 15, 2021, World Channel began airing on channel 5.4 and Create debuted on 5.5. These channels, simulcasts of KNMD-TV 9.1 and 9.2, were added in preparation for KNMD-TV's planned June 30 conversion to ATSC 3.0 format; KNMD-TV simulcasts the entire KNME multiplex.{{cite web|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076ff37765044601776e08fdb80e4d&id=25076ff37765044601776e08fdb80e4d&goBack=N|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|title=LMS #137830 Modification of a License for DTV Application, KNMD-TV|date=March 4, 2021|accessdate=March 15, 2021}}
=Analog-to-digital conversion=
KNME-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 35, using virtual channel 5.{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |format=PDF |access-date=March 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 }}
=Translators=
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- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|55559|3=K33FK-D}} Angel Fire
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|53881|3=K10CG-D}} Aztec
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|55541|3=K22NT-D}} Aztec
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|55533|3=K33GC-D}} Capulin, etc.
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|55538|3=K15JO-D}} Chama
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|55527|3=K28GF-D}} Cimarron
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|13544|3=K18HR-D}} Conchas Dam
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|127961|3=K34HF-D}} Cuba
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|55565|3=K31PM-D}} Farmington
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|55540|3=K36PP-D}} Farmington
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|23048|3=K31HB-D}} Gallina
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|55545|3=K23FE-D}} Gallup
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|55558|3=K33GA-D}} Grants, Milan
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|55550|3=K33FL-D}} Las Vegas
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|183463|3=K23OO-D}} Moon Ranch
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|22275|3=K31EO-D}} Mora
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|55528|3=KNME-TV (DRT)}} 31 Mountainair
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|55561|3=K33OE-D}} Penasco
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|167673|3=K15HC-D}} Quemado/Pie Town
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|184651|3=K31OX-D}} Ramah
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|55579|3=K20CV-D}} Raton
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|13451|3=K15FV-D}} Red River
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|55528|3=KNME-TV (DRT)}} 31 Rowe
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|55546|3=K34FQ-D}} Roy
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|59345|3=K30FP-D}} Santa Rosa
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|191963|3=K18LG-D}} Shiprock
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|66149|3=K22NP-D}} Shiprock
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|127932|3=K33PG-D}} Socorro
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|167674|3=K15HD-D}} Taos
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|187717|3=K18LC-D}} Tecolote
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|55524|3=K31JR-D}} Thoreau
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|66144|3=K25QD-D}} Tohatchi
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|55539|3=K28GV-D}} Tres Piedras
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|55525|3=K36FQ-D}} Wagon Mound
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|55529|3=K22FN-D}} White Oaks, etc.
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|189005|3=K33QC-D}} Window Rock, AZ
- {{FCC-LMS-Facility|198350|3=K33QD-D}} Zuni Pueblo
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References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.newmexicopbs.org/}}
{{University of New Mexico}}
{{Albuquerque TV}}
{{PBS New Mexico}}
{{Authority control}}
Category:1958 establishments in New Mexico
Category:First Nations Experience affiliates
Category:Mass media in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1958