- KLRN
Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KLRN
city =
station_
station_slogan = The Learning Place
station_branding =
analog = 9 (VHF)
digital = 8 (VHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = PBS
network =
founded =
airdate =September 10 ,1962
location =San Antonio, Texas
callsign_meaning = LeaRN
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Alamo Public Telecommunications Council
licensee =
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = NET (1962-1970)
effective_radiated_power = 309 kW (analog)
8.3 kW (digital)
HAAT = 283 m (analog)
258.6 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 749
coordinates = coord|29|19|38.7|N|98|21|17.6|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.klrn.org/ www.klrn.org]KLRN is a public
television station inSan Antonio, Texas , broadcasting locally onVHF channel 9 as a PBS member station. It is operated by the Alamo Public Telecommunications Council (formerly the Southwest Texas Public Broadcasting Council).The station also serves as the default PBS member station for the Laredo market, which doesn't have an PBS station of its own.
It signed on in September 1962, serving both San Antonio, and
Austin, Texas , from a studio on the campus of theUniversity of Texas at Austin .By 1984, Austin would gain their own public television station in the form of
KLRU (which was a KLRN satellite from 1979 through 1984), and KLRN, with its own studios in San Antonio, became fully associated with the Alamo City.Digital television
The digital signal of KLRN is multiplexed:
Notable programming
Some of the notable programs produced (in the Austin studio) by KLRN over the years included "
Carrascolendas " and "Villa Alegre", both 1970s children's programs about Hispanic culture. KLRN also produced "Austin City Limits " until 1984, when KLRU split off from KLRN.Trivia
Corpus Christi's
KEDT , while always under different ownership than KLRN, carried much of KLRN's schedule the first few years of its life, after signing on in October 1972.External links
* [http://www.klrn.org/ KLRN home page]
*TVQ|KLRN
*BIA|KLRN|TV|TV** In California: Pasadena Unified School District operates a PEG cable channel branded as KLRN, although it is not actually assigned those call letters. KLRN's web site is http://www.klrn.us/ .
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