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'''Idaho Public Television''' (also known as '''IdahoPTV''' and '''Idaho Public TV''') is a Public Broadcasting Service ([[PBS]]) [[Network affiliate#Member stations|member]] network serving the [[U.S. state]] of [[Idaho]]. Consisting of five television stations, it is operated and funded by the [[Idaho State Department of Education|Idaho State Board of Education]], an agency of the [[Government of Idaho|Idaho state government]] that holds the [[broadcast license|licenses]] to all PBS member stations in the state. The network is headquartered in [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]], with satellite studios at the [[University of Idaho]] in [[Moscow, Idaho|Moscow]] and [[Idaho State University]] in [[Pocatello, Idaho|Pocatello]].

The network's first station, '''KUID-TV''', signed on from the [[University of Idaho]] campus in September 1965.<ref name=cgfutvq>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=481eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3DIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4405%2C4412133 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho) |title=Contract given for university TV equipment |date=January 30, 1965 |page=3}}</ref><ref name=educopn>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zr5eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JjEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5551%2C547707 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho)|title=Education TV station opens |date=September 3, 1965 |page=14}}</ref><ref name=dvbtb>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=p7deAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bTAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4927%2C5567574 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho) |last=McCreary |first=Frank P. |title=Educational TV soon will span state |date=December 26, 1965 |page=1, section 2}}</ref> KBGL-TV signed on in July 1971 from [[Idaho State University]] in Pocatello, followed that December by '''KAID-TV''' in Boise, licensed to [[Boise State University]]. After a decade, KBGL changed its call letters to '''KISU-TV''' in 1981. The three stations shared many programs, but were largely operated independently at first. However, in 1981, two KUID-produced documentaries—one about logging practices, another about lead exposure—caused such an outcry that the state legislature yanked nearly all funding for public television.<ref name=csbtoun>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4cUjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=INEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1128%2C3178913 |newspaper=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |location=(Idaho-Washington)|last=Snow |first=Ruth |title=IPTV could shift back into university control |date=October 20, 2001 |page=10A }}</ref><!--{{citation needed|date=February 2014}}--> Citing budget restrictions in early 1981, the [[Idaho Legislature|state legislature]] cut 90% of the state funding for public television,<ref name=ptvrepdu>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zPZLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Zu4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=1988%2C5526688 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington)|agency=Associated Press |title=Public TV report due |date=July 14, 1981 |page=9 }}</ref> and the stations relied on [[Federal government of the United States|federal]] funding and private donations.<ref name=ptfnsot>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PEoaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WycEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4024%2C2940815 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |title=Public TV funds sought |agency=UPI |date=September 10, 1981 |page=3}}</ref>

A year later, the legislature ordered the merger of the three stations into a single network.<ref name=ipffzz>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pvlLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0e4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=7010%2C2873177 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |agency=Associated Press |title=Idaho PBS future fuzzy |date=February 8, 1982 |page=8}}</ref><ref name=iptvhois>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hFhYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rvkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6011%2C2101338 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington) |agency=UPI |title=Idaho public TV hot issue |date=February 8, 1992 |page=5}}</ref> The licenses for all three stations were transferred to the state board of education.<ref name=istnthsm>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qVUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XicEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2518%2C1230394 |newspaper=Spokane Chronicle |location=(Washington) |agency=Associated Press |title=Idaho public TV stations to have single manager |date= April 6, 1982 |page=5 }}</ref> Two other stations were added in 1992 at [[Coeur d'Alene, Idaho|Coeur d'Alene]] and [[Twin Falls, Idaho|Twin Falls]], the respective cities of [[North Idaho College]] and the [[College of Southern Idaho]].

In 2001, Idaho PTV began broadcasting its HD channel, KAID HD, using the default [[PBS Satellite Service|PBS HD schedule]]. Once the digital switchover had occurred in July 2009 and after a two-year acclimation process, the main HD channel became the home of the regular IdahoPTV schedule in August 2011, and the second [[standard-definition television|standard definition]] channel was converted from the regular IdahoPTV schedule into a "Plus" subchannel, featuring an alternate schedule of programming.<ref name=crt>{{cite news|last1=Sefton|first1=Dru|title=Multicasts tailored to local priorities|url=http://current.org/files/archive-site/dtv/dtv1211multicast.html|access-date=March 31, 2016|work=Current|publisher=American University SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION|date=June 11, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417024714/http://current.org/files/archive-site/dtv/dtv1211multicast.html|archive-date=April 17, 2016}}</ref>

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| '''KAID'''<br />([[Flagship (broadcasting)|Flagship station]])

| [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]]

| 21 ([[ultra high frequency|UHF]])<br />4

| 725 [[kilowatt|kW]]

| {{FCC-TV-Station-profile|KAID|ProfilePublic file}}<br />{{FCC-LMS-Facility|62442|3=LMS}}

| {{FCC-TV-Station-profile|KCDT|ProfilePublic file}}<br />{{FCC-LMS-Facility|62424|3=LMS}}

| {{FCC-TV-Station-profile|KIPT|ProfilePublic file}}<br />{{FCC-LMS-Facility|62427|3=LMS}}

| [[Pocatello, Idaho|Pocatello]]

| {{FCC-TV-Station-profile|KISU-TV|ProfilePublic file}}<br />{{FCC-LMS-Facility|62430|3=LMS}}

| 12 ([[very high frequency|VHF]])⁴<br />12

| {{FCC-TV-Station-profile|KUID-TV|ProfilePublic file}}<br />{{FCC-LMS-Facility|62382|3=LMS}}

===Digital subchannelsSubchannels===

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| rowspan="3" |480i|| LEARN || CREATE[[Create (originallyTV designated LEARN/CREATEnetwork) carries [https://www.createtv.com |Create TV] programming (cooking, crafting, home improvement) and other educational programs]

IdahoPTV's stations shutended downregular programming on their analog signals on June 12, 2009, the official date inon 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, with the exception of KAID, which was part of the Analog Nightlight Program and was shut off on June 15, 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-291375A1.pdf |title=UPDATED List of Participants in the Analog Nightlight Program |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111018135209/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-291375A1.pdf |archive-date=2011-10-October 18, 2011}}</ref> The station's digital channel allocations post-transition are as follows:<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=2012-03-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=2013-08-August 29, 2013 }}</ref>

* KAID shutended downregular programming on its analog signal on June 15, 2009, over [[Very high frequency|VHF]] channel 4; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition [[UHF]] channel 21., Throughusing the[[virtual usechannel]] of4. [[ProgramAs andpart Systemof Informationthe Protocol|PSIP[[SAFER Act]], KAID kept its analog signal on the air until June 15 to inform viewers of the digital television receiverstransition displaythrough thea station'sloop of [[virtualpublic channelservice announcement]]s asfrom itsthe former[[National VHFAssociation analogof channelBroadcasters]].<ref 4name="FCC Nightlight">{{cite web|url=https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-291375A1.pdf|title=UPDATED List of Participants in the Analog Nightlight Program|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|date=June 12, 2009|access-date=June 3, 2024}}</ref>

* KCDT shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 26; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 45. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station'susing virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 26.

* KIPT shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 13; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 22. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station'susing virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 13.

* KISU-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 10; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 17. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station'susing virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 10.

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