KLVX

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KLVX
city =
station_
station_slogan = Television and So Much More
station_branding = Vegas PBS
analog = 10 (VHF)
digital = 11 (VHF)
other_chs = see list below
affiliations = PBS
network =
founded =
airdate = March 25, 1968
location = Las Vegas, Nevada
callsign_meaning = Las Vegas
X = Roman numeral 10
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Clark County School District
licensee =
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = NET (1968-1970)
effective_radiated_power = 295 kW (analog)
105 kW (digital)
HAAT = 372 m (analog)
371 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 11683
coordinates = coord|36|0|26.7|N|115|0|26.5|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.vegaspbs.org/ www.vegaspbs.org]

KLVX is a PBS member station, serving the Las Vegas DMA in Nevada. Owned by the Clark County School District, the station first signed on the air as Nevada's first public television station on March 25, 1968. Its transmitter is located atop Black Mountain in Henderson, Nevada.

History

In 1964, following authorization of federal matching grants for construction educational TV facilities, the Clark County School Trustees proposed a statewide educational television network with multiple statewide transmitters offering programming originating in Las Vegas. The proposal was vigorously opposed by educators in other communities, and in 1966 the school trustees gave up the dream of a statewide service. They then sought and received FCC authority to construct a single educational station in Las Vegas. KLVX began broadcasting on March 25, 1968 as Nevada's first educational and public television station.

Operations originated from two converted classrooms located at the Southern Nevada Vocational Technical Center (aka VoTech High School) in Las Vegas. Students were involved in all engineering and production operations as part of a vocational training program of the School District.

In September, 1968 the station activated four Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS) channels which offered live instructional programs produced by the station covering foreign language, math and fine arts. Between 1978 and 1996, sixteen other ITFS channels were activated to provide 67,000 hours a year of instructional television, career professional development, college courses, and staff orientations serving schools in the communities of Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas, Boulder City, and Pahrump.

In 1971, Charlotte Hill convened a group of community leaders who eventually founded "Channel 10 Friends", a 501 (c) 3 non profit corporation established to raise private support for KLVX's non-instructional programs, and encourage community viewing of the channel. The organization renamed itself "Southern Nevada Public Television" in 2002, when they assumed leadership of a $64 million campaign to fund digital television conversion and a new building for the station.

Expansion of KLVX's viewing area continued through the 1970s and 1980s throughout Clark, Lincoln, Nye and White Pine counties with construction of a network of 19 translator stations that repeat KLVX's programming for viewers in a four state, 38,000 square mile service area. Some translators are operated by the station, but others are operated by counties or rural translator districts that rely on voluntary support.

In 1976, CCSD School Superintendent and future Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn proposed that a new building be constructed to house KLVX operations. the proposal was adopted by the School Trustees and the Murray Peterson Public Television Center was dedicated in 1978. The new facility was located at 4210 Channel 10 Drive on 10 acres of desert land sold by the Bureau of Land Management for $1,200 at the "eastern edge of urban development". The facility was designed for 35 employees and student vocational training using "state of the art" film production and development processes.

In 1994, Tom Axtell became the third general Manager of KLVX. The entire operations of KLVX were rebranded in September 2006 as Vegas PBS to reflect its current multiple-channel offerings and diversified multimedia services provided to the Las Vegas metropolitan area and statewide schools, in addition to its regular programming on its main channel.

Vegas PBS is expected to move in 2008 from its current studios to the new 112,000 square foot Educational Technology Campus. The new facility will house the Vegas PBS Studios, the Clark County School District's Virtual High School and Educational Media Center and the Homeland Security and Emergency Response support system. The new structure will meet the [Media Security and Reliability Council] 's guidelines, the first in the United States. [cite web |url= http://www.lvrj.com/business/28279209.html |title=A base for broadcasting and bettering community |accessdate=2008-09-20 |work= |publisher= |date= ]

Digital Emergency Alert System

In 2004, KLVX was the first station in the United States to demonstrate what digital television has to offer in times of emergency. The Homeland Security Department saw first hand how digital transmission of information could be broadcast in the open, encrypted and ever targeted to specific users or groups of users. That demonstration and the follow on technology led to the Digital Emergency Alert System (DEAS). During 2007, using $1.2 million, KLVX installed equipment to broadcast DEAS data, including the ability to do so for up to 7 days without external power. The grant will also cover installation of digital television data receivers in 120 Clark County School District Police Department vehicles. cite news |first= Emily |last=Richmond |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Vegas PBS at the ready in case of disaster or terror attack |url= http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2007/jul/06/566674252.html?klvx |work= |publisher= Las Vegas Sun |date=2007-07-06 |accessdate=2007-07-08 ]

Digital Television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

In 2009, KLVX will leave channel 10 and move to channel 11 when the analog to digital conversion is complete.http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf]

Translators

KLVX-TV is rebroadcast on the following translator stations:

* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K02FJ K02FJ] Channel 2 Overton
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K02FM K02FM] Channel 2 Goodsprings
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K02FN K02FN] Channel 2 Mesquite
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K07JC K07JC] Channel 7 Indian Springs
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K10NV K10NV] Channel 10 Alamo
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K13NQ K13NQ] Channel 13 Ruth
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K13NR K13NR] Channel 13 Ely
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K23BS K23BS] Channel 23 Jean
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K23CJ K23CJ] Channel 23 Glendale
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K26HY K26HY] Channel 26 Ely
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K28CS K28CS] Channel 28 Pahrump
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K45AL K45AL] Channel 45 Caliente
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K45AO K45AO] Channel 45 Pioche
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K49AM K49AM] Channel 49 Lund
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K50DA K50DA] Channel 50 Ursine
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K53DG K53DG] Channel 53 Laughlin
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K55AO K55AO] Channel 55 Panaca

External links

* [http://www.vegaspbs.org/ KLVX site]
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References