KNME-TV

KNME-TV
Albuquerque, New Mexico
United States
Branding New Mexico PBS
Channels Digital: 35 (UHF)
Virtual: 5 (PSIP)
Subchannels 5.1 PBS
5.2 V-me
Affiliations PBS (1970–present)
Owner University of New Mexico
and Albuquerque Public Schools
(The Regents of the University of New Mexico & the Board of Education of the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico)
First air date May 1, 1958 (1958-05-01)
Call letters' meaning New Mexico Education
Sister station(s) KNMD-TV
Former channel number(s) Analog:
5 (VHF, 1958–2009)
Former affiliations NET (1958–1970)
Transmitter power 250 kW
Height 1287 m
Facility ID 55528
Transmitter coordinates 35°12′50.2″N 106°27′1.7″W / 35.213944°N 106.450472°W / 35.213944; -106.450472
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website

KNME-TV, branded on-air as New Mexico PBS, is a television station based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is a PBS station, and broadcasts on digital channel 35 (virtual Ch. 5) that produces documentaries, shorts and weekly television series. It is jointly owned by the University of New Mexico and Albuquerque Public Schools. The station has studios located on the North Campus of UNM, and the transmitter is based from Sandia Crest.

Television programs produced by New Mexico PBS

New Mexico PBS produces several television programs, including:

WestLink

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.

TALNET

From 1995-2010, 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.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[1]
5.1 1080i 16:9 NMPBS Main KNME programming / PBS
5.2 480i 4:3 V-me

Analog-to-digital conversion

KNME-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, on June 12, 2009, the official date in 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.[2] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 5.

KNME-TV Station Logo during 2000's decade when it broadcast both an analog and digital signal

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