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Twin Cities PBS

Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. (abbreviated TPT, doing business as Twin Cities PBS[4]) is a nonprofit organization based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, that operates the Twin Cities' two PBS member television stations, KTCA-TV (channel 2.1) and KTCI-TV (channel 2.3), both licensed to Saint Paul. It produces programs for local, regional and national television broadcast, operates numerous websites, and produces rich media content for Web distribution.

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Twin Cities PBS

Twin Cities Public Television, Inc.

September 16, 1957 (1957-09-16)

  • KCTE-TV (CP, 1956)
  • KTCA (CP, 1956–1957)[1]

  • Analog: 2 (VHF, 1957–2009)

NET (1957–1970)

Twin Cities Area

FCC

68594

662 kW

411.1 m (1,349 ft)

Saint Paul, Minnesota

May 4, 1965 (1965-05-04)

  • Analog: 17 (UHF, 1965–2009)
  • Digital: 16 (UHF, 1999–2010)

Twin Cities

FCC

68597

325 kW

411.1 m (1,349 ft)

TPT's offices and studio facilities are on East 4th Street in downtown Saint Paul; KTCA-TV and KTCI-TV transmit from the KMSP Tower in Shoreview, Minnesota.


Twin Cities PBS also serves the Mankato market via K26CS-D[5] (relaying KTCA) and K29IE-D[6] (relaying KTCI) in nearby St. James through the local municipal-operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators[7][8] as that area does not have a PBS member station of its own.

's America (1985)

Grant Wood

(1985–1996)

Alive from Off Center

(1995)

Hoop Dreams

(November 23–25, 1997; June 21 – July 26, 2004)

Liberty! The American Revolution

The Nine Steps To Financial Freedom (December 5, 1998)

The Courage to Be Rich (1999)

: Reason for Hope (October 27, 1999)

Jane Goodall

American Photography: A Century of Images (October 13, 1999)

Transistorized (November 8, 1999)

Organizing from the Inside out with Julie Morgansterm (August 12, 2000)

(April 4, 2001)

American High

The Road to Wealth (August 6, 2001)

: Painting the Dakota (2002)

Seth Eastman

(November 19–20, 2002)

Benjamin Franklin

: The Laws of Money, The Lessons of Life (March 2, 2003)

Suze Orman

The Forgetting: A Portrait of (January 21, 2004)

Alzheimer's

The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke (2005)

The New Medicine (2006)

Out North – MNLGBTQ History (2017)

[9]

TPT is one of the few public television organizations that regularly produces programs for the national PBS schedule. Major productions include:


In addition, TPT has produced the children's science series:


Other series included Right on the Money. Make: television, produced in collaboration with Make magazine, premiered on PBS stations and the web in 2009.


TPT also regularly produces programs exclusively for and about Minnesota and the surrounding region. Its Friday night public-affairs program Almanac has aired weekly for more than 35 years. Other significant local productions include numerous concerts with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota: A History of the Land (2005), North Star: Minnesota's Black Pioneers (2004), the series Don't Believe The Hype (10 seasons), Seth Eastman: Painting the Dakota (2001), Death of the Dream: Farmhouses in the Heartland (2000), the series Tape's Rolling, Wacipi-Powow (1995), Lost Twin Cities (1995), Dakota Exile (1995), The Dakota Conflict (1993), Iron Range: A People's History (1994), and How to Talk Minnesotan (1992).

KTCA-TV shut down its analog signal, over channel 2; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 34, using virtual channel 2.1.

VHF

KTCI-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 17; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 16, using virtual channel 2.3.

Geneva Collins (March 14, 2005). . Current. Archived from the original on February 16, 2006. Retrieved February 20, 2006.

"TPT gives area nonprofits a voice on Minnesota Channel"

Twin Cities Public Television

Minnesota Channel