Vermont PBS ( VPBS ) is a member network of the Public Broadcast Service (PBS) for the state of Vermont in the US. The company is owned by Vermont ETV, Inc. a community-based nonprofit corporation licensed to all PBS member stations licensed in the state. Originally owned and operated by the University of Vermont, the network has been in operation since October 16, 1967. In the late 1970s, UVM sold its network to Vermont ETV. Until 1997, it was known as Vermont Educational Television, or Vermont ETV (which is still the name of the station company). Between 1997 and May 2014, it became known as Vermont Public Television or VPT .
VPBS 'studios and offices are located in Colchester, near Burlington.
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VPBS is also delivered to the W36AX analog translator in Manchester and W53AS at Bennington, which directly repeats WVER. These translators were used to feed the cable system on the Vermont side of Albany-Schenectady-Troy, the New York market. Translator's license 'was canceled by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on December 28, 2011. However, WVER stays in most cable systems in southwestern Vermont.
On February 17, 2017, the VPBS announced it had sold a $ 56 million WVTA broadcast license in the FCC spectrum auction. In a statement, the network said that other signals would be upgraded to cover the area served by WVTA.
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Digital television
Digital channels
Digital station signals duplicated:
Analog-to-digital conversion
VPBS stations closed their analog signals on February 17, 2009, the original date on which the full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasting under the federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009).
Any post-transition digital station allocation is as follows. All stations remain in pre-transition digital channels. Through the use of PSIP, a digital television receiver maps to its analog channel position as its virtual channel:
Fundraising
In terms of market and population size, Vermont PBS is the smallest PBS member in New England, and one of the smallest in the entire PBS system. Most of his impressions live in Canada, especially in Montreal, Quebec, a city that is ten times larger than the entire US VPBS area population. This is a comparison similar to WPBS-DT in Watertown, New York; most of its listeners live near Ottawa, Ontario. It relies heavily on Canadian audiences for its survival; most of the major stations in Vermont have reduced their dependence on Canadian revenues in recent years. VPBS not only looks at a large number of Canadian audiences in its program but also receives Canadian dollars for fundraising even though most of them are targeted to Vermont audiences. It also operates a separate fundraising arm for Canadian members, General Television Association of Quebec.
As with the population of Vermont as a whole, the vast majority of VPBS viewers live primarily in rural areas or in towns and towns. The only major urban area to reach the signal is Montreal.
VPBS shares many of the most valuable markets (Champlain Valley in Vermont and New York as well as Quebec and southern Montreal areas) with Plattsburgh, WCFE-TV based in New York. In Upper Connecticut Valley, the VPBS competes with New Hampshire Public Television, while in Bennington and the Windham region (the only Vermont state not in the Burlington/Plattsburgh television market), VPBS also competes with WMHT (Schenectady, New York) and WGBY-TV (Springfield, Massachusetts).
Broadcast area
Three Vermont PBS transmitters cover virtually all of Vermont and the border areas of New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and southern Quebec, including Montreal.
On cable, VPBS can be seen on channel Comcast Xfinity 6 in Burlington and channel 7 on Bennington, Burlington Telecom channel 6 and 206 (HD), and channel Charter 3 in Plattsburgh. On the VidÃÆ' Â © otron cable system in Montreal, it can be seen on channel 59 in west Montreal, channel 6 in central and eastern Montreal, and channel 88 on digital cable. WETK is also seen in almost all states in Burlington/Plattsburgh DirecTV and Dish Network feeds.
Some of the programs produced by VPBS also air on Springfield, a member of the PBS Massachusetts WGBY-TV (channel 57), whose signals appear in some parts of southern Vermont.
See also
- Vermont Public Radio (separate ownership of Vermont PBS)
References
External links
- Vermont PBS website
- Hat TV: Trivial facts about South QC, NY Upstate and VT stations
- FCC TV station request data for WETK
- Request the FCC TV station database for WVER
- Request the FCC TV station database for WVTA
- Request the FCC TV station database for WVTB
- Request for FCC TV station database for W36AX
- FCC TV station database request for W53AS
- BIAfn Media Web Database - Information at WETK-TV
- BIAfn Media Web Database - Information about WVER-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database - Information about WVTA-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database - Information about WVTB-TV
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