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KET originates two full-time general-audience television programming services (KET1 and KET2); a 20-hour, seven-day educational service for Kentucky schools (KET ED); a nightly high-definition service; and a 20-hour, seven-day channel devoted entirely to Kentucky programming from our headquarters in Lexington, KY. These services are accessible via a mix of analog and digital broadcast.
Following are brief descriptions of the main KET program services. Click on a logo or the “Details” link for further information about accessing these services.
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• TV schedules
• Programs by genre
• About digital TV
• In-school instructional programs
• KET-produced programs
• KET General Assembly coverage
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Our primary broadcast service, on the air since September 1968, offers a mix of public television programming and original KET productions about Kentucky. KET1 is available through our statewide network of analog transmitters, reaching all of Kentucky and parts of seven surrounding states, as well as their digital counterparts, and is the designated “must-carry” KET service for Kentucky cable providers. Programming includes:
- locally produced Kentucky culture and public information programs
- PBS viewer favorites
- commercial-free children’s shows
- GED, workplace skills, and other adult education series
- college-credit courses
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This second general-interest service went on the air in August 1997, after KET’s merger with Louisville public television station WKPC-15. KET2 is available via analog broadcast in the Louisville area, via digital broadcast statewide, and via many participating cable systems around Kentucky. Programming includes:
- the PBS core service at nationally advertised times, plus overnight repeats
- more than 50 how-to series
- many independent productions from diverse points of view
- more opportunities to view Kentucky programs
- additional educational children’s series
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KET ED offers instructional and professional development series for use in P-12 Kentucky schools. These programs made up KET’s core service when the network signed on the air in 1968, and ITV has been a critical part of our programming mix ever since. In January 1989, our instructional schedule was expanded into a full-time service, initially available only via satellite downlink. The switch to digital broadcast, completed in June 2005, made KET’s educational service more broadly accessible to private, parochial, and home schools. Some Kentucky cable providers also offer KET ED to their subscribers.
The KET ED service combines programs previously seen on KET3 and KET4, including ITV series, Annenberg and KET professional development programs, and PBS programs with educational content. |
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This digital broadcast service offers four hours of high-definition, widescreen, and other digitally enhanced programs from PBS and other public television sources each evening. It is broadcast from 8:00 pm to midnight ET seven nights a week. |
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Launched in January 2008, this 20-hour-per-day digital service is dedicated to programs about, by, and for Kentuckians. It provides additional chances to see new Kentucky productions by KET and other producers as well as a home for KET’s library of 40 years of Kentucky history, arts and culture, and public affairs programs. |
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