| 词条 | Vermont PBS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| call_letters = Vermont PBS | station_slogan = Educate, inform, entertain and inspire | station_logo = VermontPBS.png | analog = | digital = see table below | subchannels = xx.1 PBS xx.2 PBS Plus xx.3 Create xx.4 PBS Kids | affiliations = PBS (1970–present) | country = United States | airdate = {{start date and age|1967|10|16|p=y}} | location = statewide Vermont| | callsign_meaning = see table below| | owner = Vermont ETV, Inc. | former_affiliations = NET (1967–1970) | effective_radiated_power = see table below | HAAT = see table below | facility_id = see table below | coordinates = see table below | homepage = www.vermontpbs.org }} Vermont PBS (VPBS) is the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member network for the U.S. state of Vermont. It is owned by Vermont ETV, Inc. a community-based nonprofit corporation that owns the licenses for all PBS member stations licensed in the state. Originally owned and operated by the University of Vermont, the network has been operating since October 16, 1967. In the late 1970s, UVM sold the network to Vermont ETV. Until 1997, it was known as Vermont Educational Television, or Vermont ETV (which is still the station's corporate name). Between 1997 and May 2014, it was known as Vermont Public Television or VPT. VPBS' studios and offices are located in Colchester, near Burlington. VPBS stations
VPBS was also relayed on analog translators W36AX in Manchester and W53AS in Bennington, which directly repeated WVER. These translators were used to feed cable systems on the Vermont side of the Albany–Schenectady–Troy, New York market. The translators' licenses were cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on December 28, 2011. However, WVER remains on most cable systems in southwestern Vermont. On February 17, 2017, VPBS announced that it had sold the WVTA broadcast license for $56 million in the FCC's spectrum auction. In a statement, the network said that its other signals would be upgraded to cover the area served by WVTA.[1][2] Digital televisionDigital channelsThe stations' digital signals are multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversionVPBS' stations shut down their analog signals on February 17, 2009, the original date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009).[7][8][9] As part of the SAFER Act,[10][11] the stations, as rarities for members of PBS, kept their analog signals on the air until April 18 to inform viewers of the digital television transition.[12] Each station's post-transition digital allocations are as follows. All stations remained on its pre-transition digital channels. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers map to its analog channel position as its virtual channel:
FundraisingIn 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 its viewership lives in Canada, principally in Montreal, Quebec, a city which is ten times larger than the entire population of VPBS' American viewing area. This is a similar comparison with WPBS-DT in Watertown, New York; most of its audience lives near Ottawa, Ontario. It relies heavily on its Canadian viewership for its survival, even as most of Vermont's major commercial stations have lessened their dependence on Canadian revenue in recent years. VPBS not only takes its large Canadian audience into account in its programming, but it accepts Canadian dollars for its fundraising efforts even though most of them are targeted toward Vermont viewers. It also operates a separate fundraising arm for its Canadian members, the Public Television Association of Quebec. As is true of Vermont's population as a whole, most of VPBS' viewership lives primarily in rural areas or in towns and small cities. The only major urban area in its service territory is Montreal. VPBS shares much of its core market (the Champlain Valley in Vermont and New York as well as the southern Quebec and Montreal area) with Plattsburgh, New York-based WCFE-TV. In the Upper Connecticut Valley, VPBS competes with New Hampshire Public Television, while in Bennington and Windham counties (the only Vermont counties not in the Burlington–Plattsburgh television market), VPBS also competes with WMHT in Schenectady and WGBY-TV in Springfield, Massachusetts. Broadcast areaVermont PBS' four transmitters cover almost all of Vermont and bordering regions of New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and southern Quebec, including Montreal. On cable, VPBS can be seen on Comcast Xfinity channel 6 in Burlington and channel 7 in Bennington, Burlington Telecom channels 6 and 206 (HD), and Charter Spectrum channel 3 in Plattsburgh and channel 17 in Glens Falls and Queensbury. On Vidéotron's cable systems in Montreal, it can be seen on channel 59 in west Montreal, channel 6 in central and east Montreal, and channel 88 on Illico digital cable. WETK is also seen across nearly all of the state on the Burlington–Plattsburgh DirecTV and Dish Network feeds. Some VPBS-produced programs also air on WGBY, whose signal reaches parts of southern Vermont. See also
References1. ^{{cite news|last1=Hallenbeck|first1=Brent|title=Vermont PBS sells broadcast licenses for $56 million|url=http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/money/2017/02/17/vermont-pbs-sells-broadcast-licenses-56-million/98055166/|accessdate=February 17, 2017|work=Burlington Free Press|date=February 17, 2017|language=en}} 2. ^{{cite news|last1=Frechette|first1=Kristin|title=Vermont PBS Sells off one of its Broadcast Licenses|url=http://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/vermont-pbs-sells-off-one-of-its-broadcast-licenses/659364084|accessdate=February 17, 2017|work=MyChamplainValley.com|date=February 17, 2017}} 3. ^RabbitEars TV Query for WETK 4. ^RabbitEars TV Query for WVER 5. ^RabbitEars TV Query for WVTB 6. ^RabbitEars TV Query for WVTA 7. ^{{cite web |url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=2012-03-24 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archivedate=2013-08-29 |df= }} 8. ^Vt. TV stations opt for early digital switch{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Joel Banner Baird, Burlington Free Press; February 5, 2009 9. ^TV Stations Say Digital Switch Delay Will Be Costly, Curt Nickisch, National Public Radio, Morning Edition, February 3, 2009 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-291375A1.pdf|title=UPDATED List of Participants in the Analog Nightlight Program|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|format=PDF|date=June 12, 2009|accessdate=June 4, 2012}} 11. ^FCC.gov Appendix B All Full Power Station By DMA, Indicating Those Terminating Analog service On Or Before February 17, 2009 12. ^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mru_YP8ZY_Y External links
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