KRWG-TV

KRWG-TV
Las Cruces, New Mexico
United States
Branding KRWG (general)
News22 (newscasts)
Slogan Where News Matters (newscast)
Channels Digital: 23 (UHF)
Virtual: 22 (PSIP)
Subchannels 23.1 PBS
22.2 MHz Worldview
22.3 V-me
Translators K02KP 2 Lordsburg
K28GJ-D 28 Hatch
K13UL-D 13 Hillsboro
K18IL-D 18 Caballo
K28LK-D 28 Silver City
K40GH-D 40 Truth or Consequences
K42EY-D 42 Alamogordo
K45HJ 45 Caballo
K46GU 46 Deming
K49GV-D 49 Deming
Affiliations PBS
Owner New Mexico State University
(Regents of New Mexico State University)
First air date June 29, 1973
Call letters' meaning Ralph Willis Goddard
Sister station(s) Radio: KRWG (FM)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
22 (UHF, 1973–2009)
Transmitter power 200 kW
Height 205 m
Facility ID 55516
Transmitter coordinates 32°17′33.4″N 106°41′50.9″W / 32.292611°N 106.697472°W / 32.292611; -106.697472
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.krwg-tv.org

KRWG-TV, virtual channel 22 (UHF digital channel 23), is a PBS member television station located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States. The station is owned by the Regents of New Mexico State University. KRWG-TV maintains studio facilities located at Milton Hall on McFie Circle in Las Cruces, and its transmitter is located atop Tortugas Mountain in central Dona Ana County (east of the Las Cruces city limits). On cable, the station is available on Time Warner Cable channel 4 (El Paso-based CBS affiliate KDBC-TV, which broadcasts on virtual channel 4, is instead carried on channel 3) and in high definition on digital channel 886.

The station's signal is relayed on low-power analog translator stations across southwestern New Mexico.

History

The station first signed on the air on June 29, 1973; its call letters were named after Ralph Willis Goddard, an educator and pioneer broadcaster in Las Cruces, who was employed as an instructor at the college; Goddard founded Albuquerque AM radio station KOB (now KKOB). The KRWG call letters were first used by the sister radio station at 90.7 FM that signed on in 1964.

The station produces a weeknight newscast, currently titled News22, which is one of the few student-produced broadcasts among the journalism schools in the United States.

News/station presentation

Newscast titles

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[1]
22.1 1080i 16:9 KRWG-HD Main KRWG-TV programming / PBS HD
22.2 480i 4:3 KRWG-SD MHz Worldview
22.3 KRWG-V' V-me

Analog-to-digital conversion

KRWG-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 22, on June 10, 2009 (two days before most full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate on June 12). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 23.[2] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 22.

References

  1. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KRWG
  2. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.

External links

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