# KNME-TV

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{{Short description|Television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico}}
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{{Missing information|the station's history|date=September 2018}}
{{Primary sources|date=February 2009}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = KNME-TV
| logo                   = NMPBS 2019 logo.png
| logo_size              = 220px
| location               = [Albuquerque](/source/Albuquerque)–[Santa Fe, New Mexico](/source/Santa_Fe%2C_New_Mexico)
| city                   = Albuquerque, New Mexico
| branding               = NM PBS
| analog                 =
| digital                = 35 ([UHF](/source/UHF))
| virtual                = 5
| subchannels            = 
| translators            = ''see {{section link||Translators}}''
| affiliations           = {{ubl|'''5.1:''' [PBS](/source/PBS)|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| owner                  = {{ubl|[University of New Mexico](/source/University_of_New_Mexico)|[Albuquerque Public Schools](/source/Albuquerque_Public_Schools)}}
| licensee               = The Regents of the University of New Mexico & the Board of Education of the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico
| country                = United States
| founded                = 
| airdate                = {{start date|1958|5|1}}
| last_airdate           = 
| callsign_meaning       = New Mexico Education
| sister_stations        = [KNMD-TV](/source/KNMD-TV)
| former_callsigns       = 
| former_channel_numbers = '''Analog:''' 5 ([VHF](/source/VHF), 1958–2009)
| former_affiliations    = [NET](/source/National_Educational_Television) (1958–1970)
| erp                    = 250 [kW](/source/kW)
| haat                   = {{convert|1287|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| class                  = 
| facility_id            = 55528
| coordinates            = {{coord|35|12|49.8|N|106|27|3.3|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority    = [FCC](/source/FCC)
| website                = {{URL|https://www.newmexicopbs.org/}} 
}}

'''KNME-TV''' (channel 5), branded '''New Mexico PBS''' or '''NM PBS''', is a [PBS](/source/PBS) member [television station](/source/television_station) in [Albuquerque, New Mexico](/source/Albuquerque%2C_New_Mexico), United States. Jointly owned by the [University of New Mexico](/source/University_of_New_Mexico) and [Albuquerque Public Schools](/source/Albuquerque_Public_Schools), it is a [sister station](/source/sister_station) to [Santa Fe](/source/Santa_Fe%2C_New_Mexico)–licensed [KNMD-TV](/source/KNMD-TV) (channel 5). The two stations share studios on UNM's North Campus on University Boulevard Northeast in Albuquerque; KNME-TV's transmitter is located atop [Sandia Crest](/source/Sandia_Crest).

==History==
In 1957, the University of New Mexico Board of Regents and Albuquerque Public Schools reached a deal to jointly file for the channel 5 educational allocation in Albuquerque.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73542091/|accessdate=March 15, 2021|page=2|work=Albuquerque Journal|title=Regents Approve TV Agreement With Schools|date=March 12, 1957}}</ref> The application was filed with the [Federal Communications Commission](/source/Federal_Communications_Commission) on July 19 and granted on October 23.<ref name="hc">{{Cite web|url= https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=82881 |title= History Cards for KNME-TV|publisher=[Federal Communications Commission](/source/Federal_Communications_Commission)}} (Guide to reading History Cards)<!--Converted from {{FCC letter}}--></ref> Plans were drawn up to use the new station to beam junior college classes to outlying areas,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73542504/|accessdate=March 15, 2021|date=August 21, 1957|work=Espanola Valley News|title=Valley To Get Classroom TV|page=3}}</ref> while a studio was set up in a converted sorority house on the UNM campus.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73542679/|accessdate=March 15, 2021|date=December 24, 1957|work=Espanola Valley News|title=Predict TV College Here Next February|page=7}}</ref>

Edith Buchanan's English class was the first program broadcast over KNME-TV on May 1, 1958.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73542868/|accessdate=March 15, 2021|date=May 3, 1958|work=Albuquerque Journal|page=15|title=Educational TV Station Begins Four-Day Schedule}}</ref> By 1960, the station had expanded from college courses to provide programs for Albuquerque public school students in science and Spanish.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73543608/|date=August 14, 1960|work=Albuquerque Journal|page=A-13|title=Channel 5 Schedules Extended Instructional TV Programming|accessdate=March 15, 2021}}</ref> That same year, a [Ford Foundation](/source/Ford_Foundation) grant enabled the station to purchase its first video tape equipment.<ref name="sixty">{{Cite news|url=https://www.abqjournal.com/1266390|date=January 11, 2019|title=New Mexico PBS station KNME marks 60 years on the air|first=Adrian|last=Gomez|work=Albuquerque Journal|accessdate=March 15, 2021}}</ref> In 1969, KNME began live coverage of the New Mexico state legislature.{{r|sixty}}

==Television programs produced by New Mexico PBS==
New Mexico PBS produces several television programs, including:
* ''[¡Colores!](/source/%C2%A1Colores!)'' – a weekly art series with stories devoted to the creative spirit.
* ''[https://www.newmexicopbs.org/productions/newmexicoinfocus/ New Mexico in Focus]'' – a weekly, prime-time news magazine show covering the events, issues, and people that are shaping life in New Mexico and the Southwest.
* ''[https://www.newmexicopbs.org/productions/publicsquare/ Public Square]'' – community engagement through meaningful dialogue.

Local programs have also included reports leading up to and after the [New Mexico State Penitentiary riot](/source/New_Mexico_State_Penitentiary_riot) and the [Peabody Award](/source/Peabody_Award)-winning series ''Surviving Columbus'' on the Pueblo Indians (1992).{{r|sixty}}

==Other initiatives==
KNME also operates the satellite service WestLink, which shares programming with other public television stations and several commercial clients. Satellite interviews from New Mexico on news networks like [CNN](/source/CNN) often originate at New Mexico PBS. Shows distributed on WestLink include ''[Democracy Now!](/source/Democracy_Now!)'' and ''[Creative Living with Sheryl Borden](/source/Creative_Living_with_Sheryl_Borden)''.{{r|sixty}}

From 1995 to 2010, KNME operated TALNET (an [acronym](/source/acronym) for "Teach and Learn Network"), an educational cable channel for Albuquerque. It broadcast a mix of PBS and [Annenberg Media](/source/Annenberg_Foundation) programming and local school board meetings on Comcast cable channel 96 in Albuquerque.

==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The station's signal is [multiplexed](/source/Multiplex_(TV)):
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KNME-TV<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KNME#station|title=RabbitEars TV Query for KNME|website=RabbitEars|accessdate=March 21, 2025}}</ref>
! scope = "col" | [Channel](/source/Digital_subchannel)
! scope = "col" | [Res.](/source/Display_resolution)
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 5.1 
| [1080i](/source/1080i) || NMPBS || [PBS](/source/PBS)
|-
! scope = "row" | 5.2 
| rowspan="2"|[480i](/source/480i) || PBSKids || [PBS Kids](/source/PBS_Kids)
|-
! scope = "row" | 5.3 
| FNX || [FNX](/source/First_Nations_Experience)
|-
! scope = "row" | 5.4 
| 1080i || World || [World](/source/World_Channel)
|-
! scope = "row" | 5.5 
| 480i || Create || [Create](/source/Create_(TV_network))
|}

KNME-TV was first in New Mexico to broadcast a digital signal, signing on KNME-DT in 2001.{{r|sixty}} On January 18, 2017, [PBS Kids](/source/PBS_Kids) replaced the Spanish-language [V-me](/source/V-me) network, which had aired on channel 5.2 for about ten years, with V-me planning to transition to a commercial cable channel in 2017.<ref>{{cite news|title=New Mexico PBS Turns Off Spanish-Language Network|url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/new-mexico-pbs-turns-spanish-language-network-162251|work=Broadcasting & Cable|first=Diana|last=Marszalek|date=January 6, 2017|accessdate=March 15, 2021}}</ref> The channel, however, had never caught on with Spanish-speaking audiences. Since Fall 2016, KNME carries First Nations Experience (FNX), a channel devoted to Native American programming.

On February 15, 2021, [World Channel](/source/World_Channel) began airing on channel 5.4 and [Create](/source/Create_(TV_network)) debuted on 5.5. These channels, simulcasts of KNMD-TV 9.1 and 9.2, were added in preparation for KNMD-TV's planned June 30 conversion to [ATSC 3.0](/source/ATSC_3.0) format; KNMD-TV simulcasts the entire KNME multiplex.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076ff37765044601776e08fdb80e4d&id=25076ff37765044601776e08fdb80e4d&goBack=N|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|title=LMS #137830 Modification of a License for DTV Application, KNMD-TV|date=March 4, 2021|accessdate=March 15, 2021}}</ref>

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KNME-TV shut down its analog signal, over [VHF](/source/VHF) channel 5, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States [transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts](/source/Digital_television_transition_in_the_United_States) under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition [UHF](/source/UHF) channel 35, using [virtual channel](/source/virtual_channel) 5.<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>

===Translators===
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*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55559|3=K33FK-D}}''' [Angel Fire](/source/Angel_Fire%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|53881|3=K10CG-D}}''' [Aztec](/source/Aztec%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55541|3=K22NT-D}}''' Aztec
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55533|3=K33GC-D}}''' [Capulin](/source/Capulin%2C_New_Mexico), etc.
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55538|3=K15JO-D}}''' [Chama](/source/Chama%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55527|3=K28GF-D}}''' [Cimarron](/source/Cimarron%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|13544|3=K18HR-D}}''' [Conchas Dam](/source/Conchas_Dam%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|127961|3=K34HF-D}}''' [Cuba](/source/Cuba%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55565|3=K31PM-D}}''' [Farmington](/source/Farmington%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55540|3=K36PP-D}}''' Farmington
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|23048|3=K31HB-D}}''' [Gallina](/source/Gallina%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55545|3=K23FE-D}}''' [Gallup](/source/Gallup%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55558|3=K33GA-D}}''' [Grants](/source/Grants%2C_New_Mexico), [Milan](/source/Milan%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55550|3=K33FL-D}}''' [Las Vegas](/source/Las_Vegas%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|183463|3=K23OO-D}}''' Moon Ranch
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|22275|3=K31EO-D}}''' [Mora](/source/Mora%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55528|3=KNME-TV (DRT)}}''' 31 [Mountainair](/source/Mountainair)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55561|3=K33OE-D}}''' [Penasco](/source/Penasco)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|167673|3=K15HC-D}}''' [Quemado](/source/Quemado%2C_New_Mexico)/[Pie Town](/source/Pie_Town)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|184651|3=K31OX-D}}''' [Ramah](/source/Ramah%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55579|3=K20CV-D}}''' [Raton](/source/Raton%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|13451|3=K15FV-D}}''' [Red River](/source/Red_River%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55528|3=KNME-TV (DRT)}}''' 31 [Rowe](/source/Rowe%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55546|3=K34FQ-D}}''' [Roy](/source/Roy%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|59345|3=K30FP-D}}''' [Santa Rosa](/source/Santa_Rosa%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|191963|3=K18LG-D}}''' [Shiprock](/source/Shiprock%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|66149|3=K22NP-D}}''' Shiprock
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|127932|3=K33PG-D}}''' [Socorro](/source/Socorro%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|167674|3=K15HD-D}}''' [Taos](/source/Taos%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|187717|3=K18LC-D}}''' [Tecolote](/source/Tecolote%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55524|3=K31JR-D}}''' [Thoreau](/source/Thoreau%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|66144|3=K25QD-D}}''' [Tohatchi](/source/Tohatchi)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55539|3=K28GV-D}}''' [Tres Piedras](/source/Tres_Piedras%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55525|3=K36FQ-D}}''' [Wagon Mound](/source/Wagon_Mound%2C_New_Mexico)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55529|3=K22FN-D}}''' [White Oaks](/source/White_Oaks%2C_New_Mexico), etc.
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|189005|3=K33QC-D}}''' [Window Rock, AZ](/source/Window_Rock%2C_AZ)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|198350|3=K33QD-D}}''' [Zuni Pueblo](/source/Zuni_Pueblo)
{{div col end}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Official website|https://www.newmexicopbs.org/}}

{{University of New Mexico}}
{{Albuquerque TV}}
{{PBS New Mexico}}
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Category:1958 establishments in New Mexico
Category:First Nations Experience affiliates
Category:PBS member stations
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1958
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Category:University of New Mexico mass media

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