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- For other uses, see Khet (disambiguation).
KHET / KMEB 
KHET: Honolulu, Hawaii
KMEB: Wailuku, HawaiiBranding PBS Hawaii Channels Digital:
KHET: 11 (UHF)
KMEB: 10 (VHF)Subchannels 11.1 PBS-HD
11.2 KidsAffiliations PBS Owner Hawaii Public Television Foundation First air date KHET: April 15, 1966
KMEB: September 22, 1966Call letters' meaning KHET:
Hawaii
Educational
Television
KMEB:
Maui
Educational
BroadcastingFormer channel number(s) Analog:
KHET:
11 (VHF, 1966-2009)
KMEB:
10 (VHF, 1966-2009)
Digital:
KHET: 18 (UHF)
KMEB: 30 (UHF)Former affiliations NET (1966-1970) Transmitter power KHET: 15.7 kW
KMEB: 21.2 kWHeight KHET: 625 m
KMEB: 747 mFacility ID KHET: 26431
KMEB: 26428Transmitter coordinates KHET:
21°24′3″N 158°6′10″W / 21.40083°N 158.10278°W
KMEB:
20°39′37″N 156°21′46″W / 20.66028°N 156.36278°WWebsite www.pbshawaii.org KHET, also called PBS Hawaii, is the only Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member non-commercial educational Public television station in Hawaii. Based in Honolulu, KHET first aired in 1966. It is currently owned by the people of Hawaii through the Hawaii Public Television Foundation governed by a volunteer Board of Directors and has satellite feeds on all the major Hawaiian Islands to rebroadcast programs outside of metropolitan Honolulu. It can also be seen statewide on Oceanic Cable channel 10.
KHET signed on for the first time on April 15, 1966. Originally known on-air as Hawaii Educational Television (Hawaii ETV), it was renamed Hawaii Public Television in 1972 and became PBS Hawaii in 2006.
KHET broadcasts over-the-air on digital channel 11, with a subchannel(11.2) offering programming from Create and NHK World.
PBS Hawaii transmits 24 hours a day on Oceanic Time Warner Cable (on cable 10) and Hawaiian Telcom (cable 11), but only from 6 a.m. until 12 a.m. over the air. The digital transmitter is on Palehua Ridge, north of Makakilo.[1] The digital transmitter is only 9.5 kW (versus 148 kW for analog), so most Honolulu residents have difficulty receiving the 1080i digital signal.[2]
Contents
Digital television
Channel Programming 11.1 Main KHET Programming / PBS HD 11.2 Create (12 a.m.-6 p.m.)
NHK World (6 p.m.-12 a.m.)KHET had previously aired its digital broadcasts on channel 18. However, on January 15, 2009; KHET ended its analog service and opted to return its digital broadcasts to former analog channel 11.[3]
Translators
PBS Hawaii is rebroadcast on full-powered KMEB in Wailuku on Maui, as well as the following low-powered translator stations.
- K36IJ-D Channel 36 Anahola
- K50JT-D Channel 50 Hakalau
- K29HL-D Channel 29 Hanalei
- K28JV-D Channel 28 Hilo
- K41JT-D Channel 41 Kilauea Military Camp
- K34IS-D Channel 34 Kilauea
- K30JE-D Channel 30 Lihue
- K31IZ-D Channel 31 Naalehu
- K35II-D Channel 35 South Point
- K28JM-D Channel 28 Waimea
- K21IA-D Channel 21 Waipake
External links
- Official website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KHET
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KMEB
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KHET-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KMEB-TV
References
Television stations in the Hawaiian Islands O'ahu KHON (2.1 Fox, 2.2 The CW) • KITV (4.1 ABC, 4.2 Me-TV) • KGMB (5.1 CBS, 5.2 This TV) • KFVE (9.1 MNTV) • KHET (11.1 PBS, 11.2 Kids) • KHNL (13.1 NBC) • KWHE (14.1 LeSEA) • KIKU (20.1 Ind) • KAAH (26.1 TBN, 26.2 Church, 26.3 JCTV, 26.4 Enlace, 26.5 Smile) • KBFD (32.1 Ind) • KALO (38.1 Ind) • KWBN (44.1 Daystar) • KHLU 46 (UNI) • KKAI (50.1 Faith TV) • KUPU (56.1 Ind) • KPXO (66.1 ION, 66.2 Qubo, 66.3 ION Life)
Hawai'i KHBC (2.1 NBC) • KHHB-LP 5 (Ind) • KLEI (6.1 ION, 6.2 Qubo, 6.3 ION Life) • KGMD (9.1 CBS, 9.2 This TV) • K28JV-D / K28JM-D / K31IZ-D / K35II-D / K41JT-D / K50JT-D (xx.1 PBS, xx.2 Kids) • KHAW (11.1 Fox, 11.2 The CW) • KHVO (13.1 ABC, 13.2 More TV Hawaii) • KWHD (14.1 LeSEA, 14.2 Ind) • K45CT 45 (MNTV) • KHIK-LP 47 (Ind)
Defunct: KOIW-LP 16 (Ind) • K34HC 34 (TBN)Maui Kaua'i Other OC16 (Cable channel) • Hawaii News Now
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in HawaiiCategories:- Television stations in Hawaii
- PBS member stations
- Channel 11 digital TV stations in the United States
- Channel 11 virtual TV stations in the United States
- Television channels and stations established in 1966
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