KUAT-TV

KUAT-TV (also known as PBS 6 is the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member Public television station in Tucson, Arizona, United States. Owned by the Arizona Board of Regents and operated by the University of Arizona, it broadcasts from the facilities of Arizona Public Media, located on campus in the Modern Languages Building. KUAT's transmitter is located on Mount Bigelow and broadcasts in digital on UHF channel 30. The station can be seen in the eastern suburbs of Phoenix under the right conditions.

KUAT-TV's audio signal was heard on 87.75 MHz until March 31, 2009.

The station operates a full-time satellite, KUAS-TV, which covers northwest Tucson and the communities west of Mount Lemmon that are shielded from the KUAT signal. Its transmitter is located on Tumamoc Hill, west of downtown Tucson, broadcasting in digital on UHF channel 28. KUAT is also rebroadcast on translator station K20GG-D in Duncan, Arizona.

History

KUAT-TV launched on March 8, 1959 as the first public television station in Arizona. It was an affiliate of National Educational Television (NET), forerunner to PBS, from 1959 through 1970, when PBS replaced NET.