KERA-TV channel 13 is the Public Broadcasting Service member station in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Licensed to Dallas, it broadcasts from a transmitter located in Cedar Hill. However, it also serves as the default PBS station for the Abilene, San Angelo, Tyler/Longview/Lufkin/Nacogdoches and Sherman/Ada markets; none of these markets have PBS stations of their own. It is also available on cable in Waco and Texarkana. The station's programming can also be seen on K44GS in Wichita Falls; this repeater provides PBS programming to the Texas side of the Wichita Falls/Lawton market.
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| - KERA-TV channel 13 is the Public Broadcasting Service member station in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Licensed to Dallas, it broadcasts from a transmitter located in Cedar Hill. However, it also serves as the default PBS station for the Abilene, San Angelo, Tyler/Longview/Lufkin/Nacogdoches and Sherman/Ada markets; none of these markets have PBS stations of their own. It is also available on cable in Waco and Texarkana. The station's programming can also be seen on K44GS in Wichita Falls; this repeater provides PBS programming to the Texas side of the Wichita Falls/Lawton market.
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| - KERA-TV channel 13 is the Public Broadcasting Service member station in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Licensed to Dallas, it broadcasts from a transmitter located in Cedar Hill. However, it also serves as the default PBS station for the Abilene, San Angelo, Tyler/Longview/Lufkin/Nacogdoches and Sherman/Ada markets; none of these markets have PBS stations of their own. It is also available on cable in Waco and Texarkana. The station's programming can also be seen on K44GS in Wichita Falls; this repeater provides PBS programming to the Texas side of the Wichita Falls/Lawton market. [1] Since 2003, it has also broadcast a digital signal on channel 14. The station's call letters, which are said to represent a "new era in broadcasting," are shared with Dallas National Public Radio affiliate KERA-FM; both are owned by North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc. While there is cross-promotion between stations, each operates its own pledge drives. KERA contributes original programming to the nationwide PBS system, including documentaries such as JFK: Breaking the News and the national Emmy Award-nominated Matisse and Picasso. In 1974, KERA became the first American television station to air Monty Python's Flying Circus. KERA's early operation benefitted frequently from help from the local commercial broadcasters. The physical plant at 3000 Harry Hines Boulevard had been built for KBTV channel eight in 1949. KBTV was acquired by the Belo/Dealey/Dallas Morning News/WFAA interests in 1950 and channel 8 was renamed WFAA-TV. It maintained studios at this site from 1950 to 1960 when it moved to a new site next to the Dallas Morning News. They used the tower until the mid fifties when "Hill Tower Corporation" (half owned by Dallas Morning News, half owned by Dallas Times Herald channel 4 (then KRLD-TV now KDFW) built a 1,521 foot tower at Cedar Hill, Texas. KERA-TV signed on in 1960 using the old WFAA-TV tower, and antenna and transmitter (modified to move from channel 8 to channel 13). KERA-TV used the tower until 1970 when they moved in with KTVT at Cedar Hill.
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