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{{short description|PBS member station in Reno, Nevada}}
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{{distinguish|West Virginia Public Broadcasting{{!}}WNPB-TV}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = KNPB
| city                   =
| logo                   = PBS Reno logo (2019).png
| image                  = KNPB (Reno, Nevada).jpg
| branding               = PBS Reno
| analog                 =
| digital                = 15 ([[UHF]])
| virtual                = 5
| subchannels            =
| translators            = {{ubl|33 (UHF) [[Tahoe City, California|Tahoe City, CA]]|22 (UHF) [[Truckee, CA]]|''for others, see {{section link||Translators}}''}}
| affiliations           = {{ubl|'''5.1:''' [[PBS]]|'''5.2:''' [[Create (TV network)|Create]]|'''5.3:''' [[PBS Kids]]}}
| network                =
| founded                = April 19, 1982
| airdate                = {{Start date and age|1983|9|29|p=y}}
| location               = [[Reno, Nevada]]
| country                = United States
| callsign_meaning       = Nevada Public Broadcasting
| former_callsigns       =
| former_channel_numbers = '''Analog:''' 5 ([[VHF]], 1983–2009)
| owner                  = Channel 5 Public Broadcasting, Inc.
| licensee               =
| sister_stations        =
| former_affiliations    =
| erp                    = 32.3 [[kW]]
| haat                   = {{convert|149.4|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| class                  =
| facility_id            = 10228
| coordinates            = {{coord|39|35|1.6|N|119|47|58.6|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority    = [[FCC]]
| website                = {{URL|https://www.pbsreno.org/}}
}}
'''KNPB''' (channel 5), branded '''PBS Reno''', is a [[PBS]] member [[television station]] in [[Reno, Nevada]], United States, owned by Channel 5 Public Broadcasting, Inc. The station's studios are located on North Virginia Street in Reno, and its transmitter is located on Red Hill between [[U.S. Route 395 in Nevada|US 395]] and [[Nevada State Route 445|SR 445]] in [[Sun Valley, Nevada|Sun Valley]].
==History==
In 1964, following authorization of federal matching grants for the construction of [[non-commercial educational]] television facilities, there was a proposal for a state network of educational television stations offering television programming originating from [[Las Vegas]]. The proposal was opposed by educators in other parts of the state of Nevada, and the [[Clark County School District]]'s trustees gave up the proposal of a statewide service in 1966. [[KLVX]] signed on the air in March 1968 to serve Southern Nevada; Reno would not receive a public television station of its own until 1983. During that time, PBS programming was made available to Northern Nevada from the city's commercial stations on a per-program basis (i.e. ''[[Sesame Street]]'' was on [[KOLO-TV]]). Cable systems in northwestern Nevada (including Reno and [[Carson City]]) piped in [[KVIE]] in [[Sacramento, California]], which was available over-the-air in the extreme western portions of the market. Northeastern Nevada, including [[Elko, Nevada|Elko]], was served by [[KUED]] in [[Salt Lake City]], which also operated several over-the-air translators in the region; northeastern Nevada is part of the Salt Lake City market.
KNPB began broadcasting on September 29, 1983, with the first program being ''Sesame Street''. The station's studios and offices were located in the College of Education building on the campus of the [[University of Nevada, Reno]].
In 1995, KNPB moved into its current facility on Virginia Street, also on the university campus. The station's main transmitter is located on Red Peak in [[Sun Valley, Nevada|Sun Valley]]. A low-power digital translator, licensed as '''KNPB-LD''' and also broadcasting on channel 15, serves the communities surrounding [[Lake Tahoe]] and the [[Truckee, California]] region from a location on the flanks of [[Mount Rose (Nevada)|Mt. Rose]]. A network of other community translators retransmit KNPB's signal across much of northern Nevada and bordering portions of California.
==Programming==
Programs presented by KNPB include ''Wild Nevada'' and ''Beauty of Oil Painting with Gary and Kathwren Jenkins''.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Wild Nevada {{!}} Local Shows| publisher=KNPB| access-date = March 23, 2019| url = http://www.knpb.org/wildnevada/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| title = Beauty of Oil Painting with Gary and Kathwren Jenkins {{!}} Create TV| access-date = March 13, 2019| url = https://createtv.com/show/beauty-of-oil-painting-with-gary-and-kathwren-jenkins}}</ref>
==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The station's digital signal is [[multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KNPB
! [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! Short name
! Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 5.1
| rowspan="2"|[[1080i]] || rowspan="3"|[[16:9]] || KNPB1 || Main KNPB programming / [[PBS]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 5.2
| KNPB2 || [[Create (TV network)|Create]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 5.3
| [[480i]] || KNPB3 || [[PBS Kids]]
|-
|}
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KNPB was the first television station to offer digital broadcasts on September 29, 2000. The station shut down its analog signal, over [[VHF]] channel 5, on February 17, 2009, the original date on which full-power television stations in the United States were to [[Digital television transition in the United States|transition from analog to digital broadcasts]] under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition [[UHF]] channel 15,<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 |format=PDF |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]] 5.
===Translators===
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|3353|3=K35OS-D}}''' [[Austin, Nevada|Austin]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|187832|3=K19IU-D}}''' [[Battle Mountain, Nevada|Battle Mountain]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|36493|3=K32CA-D}}''' Battle Mountain
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|185445|3=K18JG-D}}''' [[Beowawe]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|10232|3=K29ES-D}}''' [[Carson City]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|190353|3=K22LE-D}}''' [[Cedarville, CA]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|183873|3=K19IM-D}}''' [[Duckwater, Nevada|Duckwater]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|19383|3=K15EE-D}}''' [[Elko, Nevada|Elko]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|19379|3=K23FC-D}}''' Elko
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|185347|3=K31LO-D}}''' [[Eureka, Nevada|Eureka]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|19848|3=K33PI-D}}''' Eureka
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|183506|3=K24NQ-D}}''' [[Golconda, Nevada|Golconda]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|167436|3=K25IW-D}}''' Golconda
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|42691|3=K15LG-D}}''' [[Hawthorne, Nevada|Hawthorne]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|27588|3=K34KK-D}}''' [[Litchfield, California|Litchfield, CA]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|52334|3=K18DP-D}}''' [[Lovelock, Nevada|Lovelock]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|42704|3=K25PU-D}}''' [[Mina, Nevada|Mina]] / [[Luning, Nevada|Luning]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|190565|3=K27MF-D}}''' [[Orovada, Nevada|Orovada]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|127034|3=K16FV-D}}''' [[Ryndon, Nevada|Ryndon]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|70729|3=K30PB-D}}''' [[Schurz, Nevada|Schurz]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|39363|3=K31BM-D}}''' [[Silver Springs, Nevada|Silver Springs]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|27584|3=K36HH-D}}''' [[Susanville, California|Susanville, etc., CA]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|10228|3=KNPB (DRT)}}''' 31 [[Tahoe City, California|Tahoe City, CA]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|10228|3=KNPB (DRT)}}''' 22 [[Truckee, CA]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|168108|3=K36OB-D}}''' [[Verdi, Nevada|Verdi]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|42696|3=K19LS-D}}''' [[Walker Lake, Nevada|Walker Lake]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|19389|3=K20JQ-D}}''' [[Wells, Nevada|Wells]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|28080|3=K15AL-D}}''' [[Winnemucca, Nevada|Winnemucca]]
==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|https://www.pbsreno.org/}}
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