KIXE-TV

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KIXE-TV
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HAAT1,091 m (3,579 ft)
Transmitter coordinates40°36′8.5″N 122°39′5″W / 40.602361°N 122.65139°W / 40.602361; -122.65139
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Websitewww.kixe.org

KIXE-TV (channel 9) is a PBS member television station licensed to Redding, California, United States, and also serving Chico. The station is owned by the Northern California Educational Television Association. KIXE's studios are located along North Market Street on the north side of Redding and its transmitter is located atop Shasta Bally.

History

KIXE went on the air in black and white in 1964. In 1967, the station moved from Chico to Redding. It began broadcasting in color in 1971.

The station was originally located on Industrial Street in Redding. It soon expanded to a bigger facility on North Market Street (

State Route 273), north of downtown. The new building had space for television broadcasting courses at Shasta College
. Over the years, KIXE has featured numerous local media personalities, including Cal Hunter, Mike Mangas, Ray Roberts, and Ken Murray.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

multiplexed
:

Subchannels of KIXE-TV[3]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
9.1 720p
16:9
 KIXE-DT Main KIXE-TV programming / PBS
9.2 480i CREATE Create
9.3 WORLD

Chico fill-in translator

Viewers in Chico,

Magalia, Orland, and surrounding areas who had originally had trouble receiving KIXE's digital signal from Redding began to notice a substantial improvement with a new fill-in transmitter on Cohasset Ridge that went online on September 21.[when?] The 4,000-watt transmitter is located 200 feet up on a transmission tower and rebroadcasts KIXE's regular programming lineup as well as the CREATE channel. The transmitter is broadcast on their pre-transition UHF channel 18, but digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as channel 9.[citation needed
]

Analog-to-digital conversion

KIXE-TV shut down its analog signal, over

UHF channel 18 to VHF channel 9.[4]
Translators finally converted on September 1.

Early switch

KIXE is currently broadcasting in a digital format on VHF channel 9. The exclusive digital broadcast began August 22, 2008, well before the then planned

KCSM-TV in San Mateo (which serves the San Francisco Bay Area
).

Translators

The cities served by translators (except Big Bend) had cable headends nearby.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "FCC History Cards for KIXE-TV".
  2. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KIXE-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ^ RabbitEars TV Query for KIXE
  4. ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
  5. ^ KIXE has gone digital Trinity Journal August 27, 2008

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