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{{Short description|PBS member station in Las Vegas}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2024}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign = KLVX
| city =
| logo = Vegas PBS logo (2019).png
| branding = Vegas PBS
| digital = 11 ([[VHF]])
| virtual = 10
| subchannels =
| translators = ''see {{section link||Translators}}''
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''10.1:''' [[PBS]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| airdate = {{start date and age|1968|3|25|p=y}}
| location = [[Las Vegas, Nevada]]
| country = United States
| callsign_meaning = {{ubl|Las Vegas|"X" = [[Roman numeral]] 10}}
| former_callsigns =
| former_channel_numbers = '''Analog:''' 10 (VHF, 1968–2009)
| owner = KLVX Communications Group
| licensee = [[Clark County School District]]
| sister_stations =
| former_affiliations = [[National Educational Television|NET]] (1968–1970)
| erp = 105 [[kW]]
| haat = {{convert|367.5|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| class =
| facility_id = 11683
| coordinates = {{coord|36|0|26.9|N|115|0|26.9|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.vegaspbs.org/}}
}}
'''KLVX''' (channel 10), branded '''Vegas PBS''', is a [[PBS]] member [[television station]] in [[Las Vegas, Nevada]], United States. It is the [[flagship (broadcasting)|flagship]] outlet of the KLVX Communications Group, a subsidiary of the [[Clark County School District]]. KLVX's studios are located at the Vegas PBS Educational Technology Campus in [[Paradise, Nevada|Paradise]], and its transmitter is located atop [[Black Mountain (Nevada)|Black Mountain]], near [[Henderson, Nevada|Henderson]] (southwest of [[Interstate 11|I-11]]/[[U.S. Route 93 in Nevada|US 93]]/[[U.S. Route 95 in Nevada|US 95]]).
[[File:Vegas PBS HQ, Feb 2017 2.jpg|thumb|Studio headquarters in [[Paradise, Nevada]]]]
== History ==
[[File:Vegas PBS Logo.png|thumb|200px|First logo as "Vegas PBS"; used from September 2006 to November 17, 2019.]]
In 1964, following the authorization of federal matching grants for the construction of [[non-commercial educational]] television facilities, the Clark County School Trustees proposed a state network of [[educational television]] stations offering television programming originating in Las Vegas. The proposal was vigorously opposed by educators in other communities, and in 1966, the school trustees gave up the proposal of a statewide service. The Trustees then sought and received [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) approval to construct a single educational station in Las Vegas. The channel 10 allocation was originally assigned to [[Bakersfield, California]]; [[KERO-TV]] occupied channel 10 from its sign-on in September 1953 until it was moved to channel 23 in the summer of 1963 after the FCC decided to make the Bakersfield and [[Fresno]] markets all-[[UHF]] via the ''deintermixture'' process.
KLVX first signed on the air as Nevada's first educational station on March 25, 1968; this made the Las Vegas market the smallest market in the nation at the time to have five television stations. The state would not receive another educational station until [[Reno]]'s [[KNPB]] signed on in 1983. Channel 10 originally operated from two converted classrooms located at the Southern Nevada Vocational Technical Center in Las Vegas. Students were involved in all engineering and production operations as part of a vocational training program of the School District.
In September 1968, the station activated four [[Instructional Television Fixed Service]] (ITFS) channels which offered live [[instructional television]] programs produced by the station covering foreign language, math and fine arts. Between 1978 and 1996, sixteen other ITFS channels were activated to provide 67,000 hours a year of instructional television programming, career professional development, college courses and staff orientations serving schools in the communities of Las Vegas, Henderson, [[North Las Vegas]], [[Boulder City]] and [[Pahrump]]. In 1971, Charlotte Hill convened a group of community leaders who eventually founded Channel 10 Friends, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation established to raise private support for KLVX's non-instructional programs, and encourage community viewing of channel 10. The organization renamed itself Southern Nevada Public Television in 2002 when the group assumed leadership of a $64 million campaign to fund digital television conversion and a new building for the station's studio facilities.
Expansion of KLVX's viewing area continued through the 1970s and 1980s throughout [[Clark County, Nevada|Clark]], [[Lincoln County, Nevada|Lincoln]], [[Nye County, Nevada|Nye]] and [[White Pine County, Nevada|White Pine]] counties with construction of a network of 19 translator stations that repeat KLVX's programming for viewers in a four state, {{convert|38000|sqmi|km2|adj=on}} service area. Some translators are operated by the station, but others are operated by counties or rural translator districts that rely on voluntary support.
In 1976, CCSD School Superintendent and future Nevada Governor [[Kenny Guinn]] proposed that a new building be constructed to house KLVX's operations. The proposal was adopted by the School Trustees and the Murray Peterson Public Television Center was dedicated in 1978. The new facility was located at 4210 Channel 10 Drive on {{convert|10|acre|ha}} of desert land sold by the [[Bureau of Land Management]] for $1,200 at the "eastern edge of urban development". The facility was designed for 35 employees and student vocational training using "state of the art" film production and development processes.
In 2004, KLVX became the first station in the United States to demonstrate what digital television has to offer in times of emergency. That demonstration and the follow on technology led to the [[Digital Emergency Alert System]] (DEAS). During 2007, using $1.2&nbsp;million, KLVX installed equipment to broadcast DEAS data, including the ability to do so for up to seven days without external power. The grant also covers the installation of digital television data receivers in 120 [[Clark County School District Police Department]] vehicles.<ref name=lvs1>{{cite news |first=Emily |last=Richmond |title=Vegas PBS at the ready in case of disaster or terror attack |url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2007/jul/06/566674252.html?klvx |publisher=[[Las Vegas Sun]] |date=July 6, 2007 |access-date=July 8, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930033338/http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2007/jul/06/566674252.html?klvx |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In September 2006, KLVX rebranded as "Vegas PBS" to reflect its current multiple-channel offerings and diversified multimedia services provided to the [[Las Vegas metropolitan area]] and statewide schools, in addition to its regular programming on its main channel. In 2009, KLVX moved its operations from the Channel 10 Drive building to the {{convert|112000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} Vegas PBS Educational Technology Campus. The new facility houses the KLVX studios, the Clark County School District's Virtual High School and Educational Media Center and the Homeland Security and Emergency Response support system. The facility is also the first in the United States to meet the Media Security and Reliability Council's guidelines.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lvrj.com/business/28279209.html |title=A base for broadcasting and bettering community |access-date=September 20, 2008 }}</ref>
== Technical information ==
=== Subchannels ===
The station's signal is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KLVX<ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KLVX#station RabbitEars TV Query for KLVX]</ref>
! [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! Short name
! Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 10.1
| [[1080i]] || rowspan=4 | [[16:9]] || KLVX-HD || [[PBS]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 10.2
| rowspan=3 | [[480i]] || Create || [[Create (TV network)|Create]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 10.3
| PBSKids || [[PBS Kids]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 10.4
| WORLD || [[World Channel|World]]
|}
KLVX also operates two additional services, Vegas PBS Rewind and Vegas PBS Jackpot!, as cable-only channels, in addition to distributing the [[World Channel]] in the market in the same manner.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vegaspbs.org/ |title=Home |website=vegaspbs.org}}</ref> As of June 1, 2022, both Vegas PBS Rewind and Vegas PBS Jackpot! have been removed on cable.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.vegaspbs.org/schedules/ | title=Schedules }}</ref>
=== Analog-to-digital conversion ===
KLVX shut down its analog signal, over [[VHF]] channel 10, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States [[Digital television transition in the United States|transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts]] under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 11,<ref>{{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 |access-date=March 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 }}</ref> using [[virtual channel]] 10.
=== Translators ===
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|188004|3=K08PE-D}}''' [[Alamo, Nevada|Alamo]], etc.
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|37544|3=K36PX-D}}''' [[Caliente, Nevada|Caliente]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|43380|3=K32DW-D}}''' [[Chloride, Arizona|Chloride, AZ]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|72255|3=K26HY-D}}''' [[Ely, Nevada|Ely]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|72229|3=K13NR-D}}''' Ely & [[McGill, Nevada|McGill]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|168547|3=K27JK-D}}''' [[Glendale, Nevada|Glendale]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|188095|3=K08PG-D}}''' [[Indian Springs, Nevada|Indian Springs]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|188010|3=K34LI-D}}''' [[Jean, Nevada|Jean]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|11687|3=K06PG-D}}''' [[Laughlin, Nevada|Laughlin]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|72227|3=K27OH-D}}''' [[Lund, Nevada|Lund]] & [[Preston, Nevada|Preston]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|188006|3=K25LU-D}}''' [[Mesquite, Nevada|Mesquite]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|67423|3=K28CS-D}}''' [[Pahrump]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|37527|3=K32OB-D}}''' [[Panaca, Nevada|Panaca]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|37533|3=K36PU-D}}''' [[Pioche]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|72234|3=K13NQ-D}}''' [[Ruth, Nevada|Ruth]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|37528|3=K36OF-D}}''' [[Ursine, Nevada|Ursine]]
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== External links ==
{{commons-inline}}
* {{Official website|https://www.vegaspbs.org/}}
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