KTEH

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KTEH
city =
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding = KTEH
analog = 54 (UHF)
digital = 50 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = PBS
V-me (DT4)
network =
founded =
airdate = October 19, 1964
location = San Jose, California
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Northern California Public Broadcasting
licensee =
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = NET (1964-1970)
effective_radiated_power = 661 kW (analog)
290 kW (digital)
HAAT = 662 m (both)
class =
facility_id = 35663
coordinates = coord|37|29|16.6|N|121|52|2.7|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.kteh.org/ www.kteh.org]

KTEH is a public television station in San Jose, California, serving the San Francisco Bay Area as a PBS member station on channel 54. The station is owned by Northern California Public Broadcasting with sister-stations KQED (TV) in San Francisco and KQET in Watsonville, the latter repeating KQED.

KTEH maintains a Technical Volunteer program (currently headed by Molly Gee). It has allowed volunteers to learn how to operate cameras, audio, shading, directing, and more, while minimizing its costs.

Programming

KTEH is known to run programming not commonly aired on other commercial or public television stations, such as British television series and anime. As an example of its British programming, KTEH carried the British science-fantasy show "Doctor Who" from April 1981 to January 2003, and then resumed airing it on April 10, 2007, with the 2005 series starring Christopher Eccleston. KTEH has also aired another British sci-fi show, "Red Dwarf". In 1998, KTEH aired the entire season of "Red Dwarf" VIII in one night. In doing so, many episodes were shown on KTEH before British television. Fact|date=March 2008

Digital Television

The station's digital transmissions are on channel 50. The digital stream is multiplexed, with all sub-channels in Standard-Definition:

History

KTEH began broadcasting in 1964.

In the late 1990s, it bought a PBS station KCAH Channel 25 in Watsonville, which was founded in 1989 to serve as the PBS station for the Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz market.

In 2006, KQED and the KTEH Foundation agreed to merge to form Northern California Public Broadcasting. As a result of the merger, KCAH changed its call letters to KQET on August 12, 2007. On October 1, 2007, KQET switched programming sources from KTEH to KQED. [cite web|year= 2006 |url= http://www.kteh.org/tv/kqetschedule.pdf |title= KQET Fall 2007 Schedule |accessmonthday= October 16 |accessyear= 2007]

References

External links

* [http://www.kteh.org/ KTEH's official website]
*TVQ|KTEH
*BIA|KTEH|TV|TV