WCVN-TV

WCVN-TV, virtual channel 54 (UHF digital channel 22), is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Covington, Kentucky, United States. Owned by the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television, the station is operated as part of the statewide Kentucky Educational Television (KET) network. WCVN-TV's transmitter is located near Winston Park in Kenton County.[1] It is one of three PBS member stations serving the Cincinnati market, alongside WCET/Cincinnati and WPTO/Oxford, a unit of WPTD/Dayton.

WCVN-TV
Satellite of WKLE, Lexington, Kentucky
Covington, Kentucky/Cincinnati, Ohio
United States
CityCovington, Kentucky
ChannelsDigital: 22 (UHF)
Virtual: 54 (PSIP)
BrandingKET (general)
KET: The Kentucky Network (secondary)
SloganWhere Learning Comes to Life
Programming
Affiliations54.1: KET/PBS
54.2: KET2
54.3: KY Channel
54.4: KET PBS Kids
Ownership
OwnerKentucky Authority for Educational Television
History
First air date
September 8, 1969 (1969-09-08)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
54 (UHF, 1969–2009)
Digital:
17 (UHF, until 2019)
NET (1969-70)
Call sign meaning
W CoViNgton
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID34204
ERP39.9 kW
HAAT132 m (433 ft)
Transmitter coordinates39°1′51″N 84°30′23″W
Links
Public license information
Profile
LMS
Websitewww.ket.org

History

WCVN-TV came to the air on September 8, 1969, becoming the 12th KET station to sign on and the 13th educational television station to broadcast within the State of Kentucky. Beforehand, the northernmost areas of the state of Kentucky had been receiving an educational television signal from WCET Cincinnati for 15 years. It signed on in July 1954, together with WMUB-TV (now WPTO) of Oxford, Ohio. After WCVN began broadcasting, the Cincinnati metropolitan area had three choices for educational programming courtesy of PBS, although WPTO did not have a presence on the Kentucky-side of the river until their digital FCC-mandated signal upgrade 2009 digital television transition. All three were members of the National Educational Television (NET) network before joining PBS in October 1970. In the Cincinnati market, KET often competes with WCET and WPTO, but KET, through WCVN, does have viewership in the Cincinnati metro area, including a few contributors to KET's Fund for Excellence.

WCVN was one of three satellites slated to be part of the network, but signed on later than the ten other charter satellites; the other two were WKMU/Murray and WKMJ-TV/Louisville, which signed on in October 1968 and September 1970, respectively. In the Kentucky side of the Cincinnati market, however, before WCVN's inaugural sign-on, WKON/Owenton was the default KET satellite in the northern Kentucky area for more than eleven months after KET's ten charter stations signed on.

Digital television
Main article: Kentucky Educational Television § Digital television

The station's digital television companion signal, WCVN-DT, along with the digital companions of thirteen other KET stations (except WKPC and WKMJ), signed on the air in May 2002.

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming
54.1720p16:9KETMain KET programming / PBS
54.2480i4:3KET2KET2
54.3KET KYKentucky Channel
54.4KETKIDSPBS Kids

[2]

Analog-to-digital conversion

In compliance with the 2009 digital television transition, WCVN-TV shut down its analog signal, UHF channel 54. Although the mandatory deadline was June 12, 2009, the analog signal was shut down on April 16. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 17. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 54, which was among the high-band UHF channels (channels 52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.[3][4]

Spectrum incentive auction results

WCVN holds a construction permit to move its digital signal to UHF channel 22 as part of the network's participation in the 2016–17 FCC Spectrum incentive auction. WCVN must relocate its digital signal to its new allocation no later than the time between September 7, 2019, and October 18, 2019.[5][6] As of October 18, 2019.[5]

Coverage area

Signal coverage

WCVN's signal covers Kentucky's northernmost counties, along with south-western Ohio and southeastern Indiana. It can reach from Germantown, Ohio in the north to northern Harrison County, Kentucky in the south and from Vevay and Brookville, Indiana in the west to rural central Brown County, Ohio and Bracken County, Kentucky in the east. The signal does cover some of the same areas as that of WKON from Burlington to near Owenton, Kentucky.[7] The WCVN signal also covers portions of the small coverage area of low-powered translator W20CT-D of Augusta, which repeats the broadcast signal of Morehead-licensed WKMR.

Cable and satellite availability

KET's statewide cable coverage includes Charter Spectrum (formerly Time Warner Cable) systems in northern Kentucky. Spectrum also carries the first three subchannels in the metro Cincinnati area along with WPTO and WCET.[8] All three public television stations in the Cincinnati market are also available on satellite via Dish Network and DirecTV. Cincinnati Bell's FiOptics IPTV service carries KET and KET2 alongside three channels of WCET.[9]

See also

References
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  3. "Calls come after KET, WKYT digital TV transition". Lexington Herald-Leader. April 17, 2009. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  4. "The Digital Transition: The Malcolm (Mac) Wall Years". KET. Kentucky Educational Television. Retrieved January 13, 2017.
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