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Smoky Hills Public Television is a regional network of PBS member television stations serving central and western portions of the U.S. state of Kansas. It is operated by the Smoky Hills Public Television Corporation, which holds the licenses for all the PBS member stations licensed in the network. The broadcast signals of the four stations cover most of the western half of the state outside of Wichita. The network produces public affairs programming and holds the broadcast rights to several Kansas high school athletic championship events sanctioned by the Kansas State High School Activities Association. The network's offices and network operations center are located in Bunker Hill (just east of Russell), in a historic native stone building. ==History== The Smoky Hills Public Television Corporation was founded in 1978, with the intent to start a non-commercial educational television station in western Kansas, which is part of the Wichita-Hutchinson market, an unusually large market that covers over 70 counties stretching from the Flint Hills to the Colorado border (encompassing almost three-fourths of the state), making it the largest designated market area (DMA) by number of counties in the United States. Up to that time, much of the area received PBS programming on cable via either Wichita member station KPTS (channel 8) or Denver member station KRMA (channel 6). Flagship station KOOD (channel 16) in Hays was the first station in the network to sign on the air on November 10, 1982. This was followed by the debut of full-power satellites KSWK (channel 8) in Lakin on March 15, 1989 and KDCK (channel 21) in Dodge City on March 3, 1998; KWKS (channel 19) in Colby was the last satellite to sign on, debuting as a digital-only station, in June 2007. Most viewers watch SHPTV's programming through cable, which is all but essential for an acceptable signal in most of this vast area due to its hilly terrain. In 2005, satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network began carrying the network in the Wichita market, boosting its potential viewership to over 1.5 million people in Kansas and Nebraska. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Smoky Hills Public Television」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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