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{{Short description|Television station in Seattle}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign = KCTS-TV
| city = Seattle, Washington
| logo = Cascade PBS logo 2024.svg
| logo_size = 220px
| branding = Cascade PBS
| digital = 9 ([[VHF]])
| virtual = 9
| translators = 
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''9.1:''' [[PBS]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| owner = Cascade Public Media
| licensee = 
| location = [[Seattle]]–[[Tacoma, Washington]]
| country = United States
| founded = 
| airdate = {{start date and age|1954|12|07|p=y}}
| last_airdate = 
| callsign_meaning = Community Television Service<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.washington.edu/research/showcase/1954a.html |title=Birth of a Television Station: KCTS |access-date=December 19, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124200920/http://www.washington.edu/research/showcase/1954a.html |archive-date=January 24, 2011 }}</ref>
| sister_stations = 
| former_callsigns = {{ubl|KUOW-TV (CP, 1953–1954)<ref name=historycards>{{Cite web|title=FCC History Cards for KCTS-TV|url=https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=82635}}</ref>|KCTS (1954–1959)<ref name=historycards/>}}
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 9 (VHF, 1954–2009)|'''Digital:''' 41 (UHF, 1999–2009)}}
| former_affiliations = [[National Educational Television|NET]] (1954–1970)
| erp = 21.7&nbsp;kW
| haat = {{convert|249|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = 33749
| coordinates = {{Coord|47|36|57|N|122|18|32|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline, title}}
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| website = {{URL|www.kcts9.org/}}
}}
'''KCTS-TV''' (channel 9), branded '''Cascade PBS''', is a [[PBS]] member [[television station]] in [[Seattle]], Washington, United States, owned by Cascade Public Media. The station's studios are located at Broadway and Boren Avenue in Seattle's [[First Hill, Seattle|First Hill]] neighborhood, and its transmitter is located at 18th Avenue and East Madison Street on the city's [[Capitol Hill, Seattle|Capitol Hill]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Blankinship |first=Donna Gordon |title=Crosscut and Cascade PBS say bye Seattle Center, hello First Hill {{!}} Crosscut |url=https://crosscut.com/news/2024/01/crosscut-and-cascade-pbs-say-bye-seattle-center-hello-first-hill |access-date=April 3, 2024 |website=Crosscut |date=January 16, 2024 |language=}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=1997 |title=Birth of a Television Station: KCTS |url=https://depts.washington.edu/sthp/files/original/6c8c6ba3ae7a18f8927f6ba821867408.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102132231/https://depts.washington.edu/sthp/files/original/6c8c6ba3ae7a18f8927f6ba821867408.htm |archive-date=January 2, 2018 |access-date=April 10, 2024 |website=UW Showcase: University of Washington |url-status=live }}</ref>

KCTS-TV is the primary PBS member station for the Seattle–[[Tacoma]] [[media market|market]], serving alongside Tacoma-licensed [[KBTC-TV]] (channel 28), which is owned by [[Bates Technical College]]. KCTS-TV also services parts of [[British Columbia]], Canada.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://help.pbs.org/support/solutions/articles/5000672982-how-do-i-find-my-local-station-in-canada-|title=How do I find my local station in Canada?|website=PBS Help|accessdate=December 28, 2024}}</ref>

Originally owned and operated by the [[University of Washington]], KCTS-TV became a community licensee in 1987. In 2015, it was announced that the station would merge with [[Crosscut.com]] to form Cascade Public Media.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hanscom |first1=Greg |last2=Power-Drutis |first2=Tamara |date=December 2, 2015 |title=An Exciting New Chapter for Northwest Public Media |url=http://crosscut.com/2015/12/an-exciting-new-chapter-for-northwest-public-media/ |work=[[Crosscut.com]] |access-date=December 2, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |last=Cullen |first=Hilda |date=December 2, 2015 |title=News Website Crosscut Merging into KCTS 9 |url=http://www.kcts9.org/sites/default/files/files/pdf/12-2-15_release_KCTS_9_Crosscut.pdf |publisher=KCTS-TV |access-date=December 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202222730/http://www.kcts9.org/sites/default/files/files/pdf/12-2-15_release_KCTS_9_Crosscut.pdf |archive-date=December 2, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Tu |first=Janet I. |date=December 2, 2015 |title=KCTS-TV to absorb Crosscut and another local website |url=http://www.seattletimes.com/business/economy/kcts-tv-to-absorb-crosscut-and-another-local-website/ |newspaper=[[The Seattle Times]] |access-date=December 2, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Connelly |first=Joel |date=December 2, 2015 |title=KCTS-TV will merge with Crosscut |url=http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2015/12/02/kcts-tv-will-merge-with-crosscut-web-site-a-new-creation-cascade-public-media-is-born/ |newspaper=[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]] |access-date=December 2, 2015}}</ref>

'''KYVE''' (channel 47) in [[Yakima]] operates as a [[semi-satellite]] of KCTS-TV, serving as the PBS member station for the western portion of the Yakima–[[Tri-Cities, Washington|Tri-Cities]] market. KYVE's transmitter is located on [[Ahtanum Ridge]].

==History==
[[File:KCTS studios.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Former studios of KCTS at Seattle Center from 1986 to 2024]]
[[File:Cascade PBS, 361 Broadway, Seattle - Off Staircase.png|thumb|left|200px|alt=The building of Cascade PBS, showing the organization's PBS logo and the staircase leading up to the visitor entrance.|The station's new home in First Hill, to which the combined Cascade PBS relocated in 2023.]]
[[File:Dennis Kelso Interviewed by KCTS.jpg|thumb|left|200px|KCTS crew recording an interview with Dennis Kelso, then-commissioner of the [[Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation]], during the cleanup of the [[Exxon Valdez oil spill|''Exxon Valdez'' oil spill]] in 1989.]]
KCTS was founded by the [[University of Washington]] (UW), the station's original licensee. It was a [[sister station]] to [[KUOW-FM]], which UW put on the air in 1951. It was originally to have gone on the air under the callsign KUOW-TV, but it instead assumed the callsign KCTS, meaning Community Television Service, to avoid singling out a member of its initial sponsoring group. Sponsors at the time included UW, [[Seattle Public Schools]], King County Public Schools, [[Seattle University]], [[Seattle Pacific College]], and the [[Seattle Public Library]].<ref name=historycards/><ref>{{cite news |title=Progress Report |work=The Seattle Times |date=May 21, 1954 |page=21}}</ref> A studio for KCTS was set up on the UW campus at 15th Avenue NE and NE Campus Parkway, with equipment donated by [[KING-TV]] owner [[Dorothy Bullitt]].<ref name=historycards/><ref name="KING equip - Times">{{cite news |title=TV Technique |work=The Seattle Times |date=October 7, 1954 |page=24}}</ref><ref name="Fire" />

The station aired its first [[test pattern]] on November 18, 1954; a fire at its studio the following day caused extensive damage to its equipment, but suppliers expedited shipments of replacement equipment such that they all arrived within a week after the fire, avoiding a potential delay to its planned regular programming.<ref name="Fire">{{cite news |title=$10,000 Fire In New TV Studio Curbs Operations |work=The Seattle Times |date=November 19, 1954 |page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=And So the Show Goes On |work=The Seattle Times |date=December 6, 1954 |page=21}}</ref> KCTS began broadcasting at 7 p.m. on December 7, first airing a five-minute program preview hosted by UW professor and program director Milo Ryan before switching to an abridged performance of [[Felix Mendelssohn]]'s ''[[Elijah (oratorio)|Elijah]]'' by the Seattle Pacific College Choir.<ref>{{cite news |title=Preview |work=The Seattle Times |date=December 7, 1954 |page=32}}</ref> Initially, it aired only two preview programs weekly; however, regular programming did not commence until nearly a month later on January 5, 1955, with the inaugural program featuring Governor [[Arthur B. Langlie]] as principal speaker.<ref>{{cite news |date=November 17, 1954 |title=KCTS Gets Ready For Test Pattern |work=The Seattle Times |page=29}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=November 30, 1954 |title=Twisting Dials |work=The Seattle Times |page=26}}</ref> It had three telecast periods throughout the afternoon and evening during weekdays.<ref>{{cite news |title=Channel 9: TV Entering The Classroom |work=The Seattle Times |date=December 12, 1954 |department=Pictorial |page=22}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=New Station Aided |work=The Seattle Times |date=January 6, 1955 |page=16}}</ref>

During the 1950s and 1960s, KCTS primarily supplied classroom instructional programs used in Washington State's K–12 schools, plus [[National Educational Television]] (NET) programs. Outside of schoolrooms, KCTS's audience among the general public was somewhat limited, and most programming was in black-and-white until the mid-1970s (although the station did install color capability in 1967). In 1970, NET was absorbed into the newly created Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which commenced broadcasting on October 5. As a PBS member station, KCTS began offering a vastly enhanced scope of programming for the general public, including British programming.

Thanks to a major fundraising drive during the mid-1980s, KCTS moved to new studio space on the Seattle Center campus in October 1986 and would remain there until 2024. In 1987, UW spun off KCTS, and the station became a community licensee, thus separating it from KUOW-FM.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://depts.washington.edu/sthp/files/original/6c8c6ba3ae7a18f8927f6ba821867408.htm|title=Birth of a Television Station: KCTS|website=depts.washington.edu}}</ref>

KCTS is seen throughout [[Lower Mainland|southwestern]] [[British Columbia]] on local cable systems, as well as across Canada on the [[Bell Satellite TV]] and [[Shaw Direct]] satellite providers, as well as on many other Canadian cable TV systems.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 13, 2025 |title=Cascade PBS Broadcast |url=https://www.cascadepbs.org/cascade-pbs-broadcast/ |access-date=November 18, 2025 |website=Cascade PBS |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Satellite TV channel list - starter |url=https://business.bell.ca/support/enterprise/satellite-tv-channel-list-starter |access-date=November 18, 2025 |website=www.bell.ca |language=en}}</ref> By 1996, a third of KCTS's audience resided in British Columbia;<ref>{{cite news |last=Taylor |first=Chuck |date=November 17, 1996 |title=KCTS confronts its future |page=M1 |work=The Seattle Times}}</ref> after it was removed from its channel number (9) on basic cable systems in the province, donations declined by $1.2&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite news |last=McCullough |first=Michael |date=December 6, 2002 |title=Bank failure won't stop shows for KCTS |page=C5 |work=[[The Vancouver Sun]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-bank-failure-wont-sto/142123641/ |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |accessdate=February 25, 2024}}</ref> KCTS continues to receive financial support from its Canadian audience, which was processed through the Pacific Coast Public Television Association from 1987 until its dissolution in 2017 amid a crackdown on similar charities from the [[Canada Revenue Agency]].<ref>{{cite web |date=November 21, 2019 |title=Cascade Public Media and Subsidiaries: Consolidated Financial Statements For the Year Ended June 30, 2019 |page=23 |url=https://www.kcts9.org/sites/default/files/2019-12/FY%202019%20Audited%20Financials.pdf |publisher=Cascade Public Media |accessdate=February 25, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Goldsmith |first1=Jill |title=Ow, Canada: Cross-border crackdowns take toll on station donations |url=https://current.org/2016/08/ow-canada-cross-border-crackdowns-take-toll-on-station-donations/ |access-date=July 28, 2025 |work=[[Current (newspaper)|Current]] |date=August 26, 2016}}</ref>

KCTS switched to a digital transmission signal from its Capitol Hill tower in March 1999, becoming the third television station in the Seattle area to make the transition. The station had been an early adopter of [[high-definition television]] programming and used its new digital signal to simulcast several programs.<ref>{{cite news |last=Levesque |first=John |date=March 22, 1999 |title=KCTS's new digital transmitter helps put city on cutting edge |page=D4 |work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}</ref> In January 2016, as part of a broader strategy to redefine itself as a content provider for various platforms other than television, the name of the licensee, KCTS Television became Cascade Public Media; its properties included KCTS-TV, [[Crosscut.com|Crosscut]], a non-profit daily news site, and Spark Public. Cascade Public Media currently consists of KCTS, Crosscut and Piranha Partners.

In July 2022, Cascade Public Media purchased [[Childhaven]]'s longtime facility in [[First Hill]] for $23 million and announced that it would move its operations there by the end of 2023; the organization stated on its website that the city of Seattle declined to renew the 40-year ground lease for the Seattle Center facility. It retained architectural firm JPC Architects, general contractor Abbott Construction, and project manager OAC Services as part of a capital campaign to purchase and renovate the property.<ref name=":1">{{cite news |last1=Stiles |first1=Marc |date=July 6, 2022 |title=Crosscut, KCTS buy Childhaven's longtime Broadway property |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2022/07/06/cascade-public-media-buys-childhaven-site.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231228180113/https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2022/07/06/cascade-public-media-buys-childhaven-site.html |archive-date=December 28, 2023 |access-date=July 8, 2022 |work=[[Puget Sound Business Journal]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Miller |first1=Brian |title=In $23M sale, Childhaven sells First Hill HQ to parent of KCTS and Crosscut |url=https://www.djc.com/news/re/12149751.html |access-date=July 8, 2022 |work=[[Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce]] |date=July 7, 2022}}</ref>

In October 2023, KCTS announced that it and Crosscut would merge under the new unified brand of Cascade PBS.<ref>{{cite web |title=A New Era: Cascade PBS |url=https://www.kcts9.org/CascadePBS |publisher=KCTS |date=October 18, 2023 |accessdate=February 25, 2024}}</ref> It also announced plans for a new streaming app, expanding on a service that launched in 2020, that would be used by other PBS member stations.<ref>{{cite news |last=Wyllie |first=Julian |date=December 21, 2023 |title=Cascade Public Media app aims to deliver long-awaited upgrades to PBS streaming experience |url=https://current.org/2023/12/cascade-public-media-app-aims-to-deliver-long-awaited-upgrades-to-pbs-streaming-experience/ |work=[[Current (newspaper)|Current]] |accessdate=February 25, 2024}}</ref> KCTS and Crosscut moved into the First Hill facility in January 2024, with both subsequently adopting the Cascade PBS name on March 1.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lee |first1=M. David III |title=Crosscut, KCTS 9 come together as Cascade PBS |url=https://crosscut.com/briefs/2024/03/crosscut-kcts-9-come-together-cascade-pbs |access-date=April 19, 2024 |work=Crosscut.com |date=March 1, 2024 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Cascade PBS snips ribbon on new First Hill HQ |url=https://www.djc.com/news/bu/12162708.html |access-date=April 19, 2024 |work=[[Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce]] |date=March 15, 2024 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Stiles |first1=Marc |title=New name, new Seattle home for KCTS 9 TV and Crosscut |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2024/03/18/name-change-home-kcts-crosscut-seattle-first-hill.html |access-date=April 19, 2024 |work=[[Puget Sound Business Journal]] |date=March 18, 2024 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> 

After the [[Rescissions Act of 2025]] was passed, Cascade PBS lost $3.5 million in annual federal funding and laid off 17 staffers as a result.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=September 22, 2025 |title=Seattle's Cascade PBS announces layoffs, end of online long-form journalism |url=https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-s-cascade-pbs-announces-layoffs-end-of-long-form-journalism-production |access-date=September 23, 2025 |website=[[KUOW-FM]] |language=en}}</ref>

==KYVE history==
{{Infobox television station
| callsign = KYVE
| above = [[Satellite station|Satellite]] of KCTS-TV
| city = 
| logo = <!-- KYVE logo 2006.svg -->
| logo_size = 220px
| branding = 
| digital = 21 ([[UHF]])
| virtual = 47
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''47.1:''' PBS|''for others, see {{Section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| translators = ''see {{section link||KYVE translators}}''
| location = [[Yakima, Washington]]
| founded = 
| airdate = {{start date and age|1962|11|01|p=y}}
| last_airdate = 
| callsign_meaning = Yakima Valley Educational
| sister_stations = 
| former_callsigns = KYVE-TV (1962–1985)
| former_channel_numbers = '''Analog:''' 47 (UHF, 1962–2009)
| former_affiliations = NET (1962–1970)
| erp = 50 kW
| haat = {{convert|280|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = 33752
| coordinates = {{Coord|46|31|57.5|N|120|30|37.2|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority = FCC
| website = {{URL|www.kcts9.org/about/kyve47}}
}}
In 1994, KCTS merged with KYVE, which has served central Washington since November 1, 1962. However, this was not the first time that the two stations had partnered together; during the early 1960s KYVE's engineers switched to and from KCTS's signal until the station's owners, the Yakima Board of Education, got enough funding for the station to be self-supporting. The station became a community licensee in 1984, but found the going difficult until its merger with KCTS. KYVE did produce a few local programs, including the ''[[KYVE Apple Bowl]]'' with host Tony Leita, a high school quiz competition; ''Northwest Outdoors'' with Wally Pease, an outdoors program; and ''Country Roads with Gwyn Gilmore'', a showcase of [[country music|country]] [[music video]]s.

During the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, some programs included a combined "KCTS/KYVE" visual bug in the lower-right corner of the screen, indicating they were simulcast to both markets. However, since the early 2000s, KYVE has largely been a straight simulcast of KCTS, so the screen bug was dropped. Combined, the two stations serve 2.4&nbsp;million people, accounting for almost two-thirds of Washington state's population.

Its former studios were located at Braeburn Hall at [[Yakima Valley Community College]]. But since the start of the millennium, local origination was severely reduced, and eventually, Braeburn Hall was torn down. KYVE later moved to a small office on 2nd Street (at the bottom of the Larson Building). KYVE struggled with financial instability in the late 2000s, eventually discontinuing local programming in May 2014 and rebranding as KCTS Yakima, maintaining a direct feed of KCTS; the office was closed in October 2014 after the station's sole employee left his position as station manager.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hoang |first1=Mai |title=Yakima public broadcasting station KYVE closes office |url=https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/b-yakima-public-broadcasting-station-kyve-closes-office-b/article_cb6b81d6-8584-5ae4-8bd0-f880546e30db.html |access-date=July 29, 2025 |work=[[Yakima Herald-Republic]] |date=November 12, 2014 |language=en}}</ref> This office is now home to the ticket office and administration for the [[Yakima Valley Pippins]] baseball team, and aside from the Ahtanum Ridge transmitter and the legal hourly station ID, KYVE no longer has any presence in Yakima.

==Programming==
KCTS is perhaps best known for producing/distributing the popular [[PBS Kids]] show ''[[Bill Nye the Science Guy]]'', as well as other programs such as ''Students by Nature'' (not a PBS-distributed program), ''The Miracle Planet'', cooking shows by [[Nick Stellino]], ''[[Chefs A' Field]]'', and the annual televised high school academic competition ''KYVE Apple Bowl''.

KCTS produced ''KCTS Connects'', a weekly half-hour [[Public affairs (broadcasting)|public affairs]] program hosted by longtime personality Enrique Cerna, from 2000 until its 2012 cancellation.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McFadden |first1=Kay |title=KCTS connects with its new public affairs series |work=The Seattle Times |date=February 18, 2000 |page=C3}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=A disappointing end to Insightful 'Up Front' |work=The Seattle Times |date=December 1, 2012 |page=A11}}</ref> After the merger with Crosscut, KCTS started airing a weekly one-minute news report named ''Crosscut Now'' circa 2019;<ref>{{Cite report |title=CPB Local Content & Service Report FY19 |date=2019 |url=https://www.cascadepublicmedia.org/system/files/inline-files/local_content_and_service_report_cascadepublicmedia_fy19-1.pdf |access-date=August 6, 2025 |publisher=Cascade Public Media}}</ref> it was increased to 10 minutes in 2023 and was renamed ''The Newsfeed'' the following year upon the branding unification into Cascade PBS.<ref>{{Cite report |title=Impact Report {{!}} 2023 was a year of experiments, change |date=December 19, 2023 |url=https://www.cascadepbs.org/inside-cascade-pbs/2023/12/impact-report-2023-was-year-experiments-change/ |last1=Happold |first1=Madeline |access-date=August 6, 2025 |last2=Pansze |first2=Martina |last3=Gladu |first3=Syd |publisher=Crosscut.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite report |title=Impact Report {{!}} Politics, podcasts & original productions in 2024 |date=December 30, 2024 |url=https://www.cascadepbs.org/inside-cascade-pbs/2024/12/impact-report-politics-podcasts-original-productions-2024/ |last1=Happold |first1=Madeline |access-date=August 6, 2025 |last2=Grossman |first2=Sophie |last3=Ahmad |first3=Nimra |publisher=Cascade PBS}}</ref>

KCTS was among a number of PBS member stations to air the controversial "Sugartime!" episode of ''[[Postcards from Buster]]'', a spinoff of ''[[Arthur (TV series)|Arthur]]'' about a cartoon rabbit named Buster Baxter, who travels the country with his father and interacts with children from different cultures and in different family structures.<ref>{{cite news | last = McFarland | first = Melanie | title = KCTS/9 Will Air 'Postcards From Buster' Showing Lesbian Parents | work = Seattle P.I. | date = February 2, 2005 | url = https://www.seattlepi.com/ae/tv/article/KCTS-9-will-air-Postcards-from-Buster-showing-1165594.php | access-date = November 11, 2022}}</ref> The episode had been removed from [[PBS Kids Go!]]'s national broadcast schedule after PBS received a critical letter from then-newly-appointed [[United States Secretary of Education|Education Secretary]] [[Margaret Spellings]], who was upset that Buster was visiting a [[Vermont]] family headed by two women.<ref>{{cite news | last = Salamon | first = Julie | title = Culture Wars Pull Buster Into the Fray | work = The New York Times | date = January 27, 2005 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/27/arts/culture-wars-pull-buster-into-the-fray.html | access-date = June 15, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Salamon | first = Julie | title = A Child Learns a Harsh Lesson in Politics | work = The New York Times | date = February 5, 2005 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/05/arts/television/a-child-learns-a-harsh-lesson-in-politics.html | access-date = June 15, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Moore | first = Frazier | title = Fallout Continues Over Lesbian-Inclusive 'Postcards From Buster' Episode | work = Advocate | date = February 11, 2005 | url = https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/entertainment-news/2005/02/11/fallout-continues-over-lesbian-inclusive | access-date = June 18, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Stasi | first = Linda | title = No Bunny Needs to Worry About Lesbian 'Postcards' | work = New York Post | date = March 21, 2005 | url = https://nypost.com/2005/03/21/no-bunny-needs-to-worry-about-lesbian-postcards/ | access-date = November 11, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Smith | first = Lynn | title = By Nixing Show, PBS Spotlights Gay Family | work = Los Angeles Times | date = March 14, 2005 | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-14-et-buster14-story.html | access-date = June 15, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Ryan | first = Maureen | title = 'Boy, That's a Lot of Moms' | work = Chicago Tribune | date = February 3, 2005 | url = https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-02-03-0502030041-story.html | access-date = June 14, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Moore | first = Frazier | title = What's the Big Deal About 'Buster'? | work = Today | date = February 9, 2005 | url = https://www.today.com/popculture/what-s-big-deal-about-buster-wbna6941861 | access-date = June 16, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Gaylord | first = Peggy R. | title = Buster Exposed to Two Pairs of Moms | work = Umaffirm | date = March 23, 2005 | url = http://umaffirm.org/news/2005bustersugartime.html | access-date = June 16, 2022}}</ref>{{overcite|date=June 2024}} [[WGBH-TV|WGBH]], the Boston-based PBS affiliate and original producer of the program, subsequently made the episode available to stations that still wished to air it on an individual basis.<ref name="Sun Journal">{{cite web|last=Taylor|first=Scott|title=MPBN ready to show 'Buster'|url=http://www.sunjournal.com/node/704880|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140315023432/http://www.sunjournal.com/node/704880|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 15, 2014|work=Sun Journal|access-date=April 22, 2014}}</ref>

==Technical information==

===Subchannels===
The stations' signals are [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KCTS-TV<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KCTS|title=RabbitEars TV Query for KCTS|website=[[RabbitEars.info]]|accessdate=January 6, 2025}}</ref> and KYVE<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KYVE|title=RabbitEars TV Query for KYVE|website=[[RabbitEars.info]]|accessdate=January 6, 2025}}</ref>
! scope = "col" colspan=2|[[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope = "col" rowspan=2|[[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" rowspan=2|[[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" colspan=2|Short name
! scope = "col" rowspan=2|Programming
|-
! scope = "col" | {{small|KCTS-TV}} || {{small|KYVE}} || scope = "col" | {{small|KCTS-TV}} || {{small|KYVE}} 
|-
! scope = "row" | 9.1 || 47.1 
| [[1080i]] || rowspan=4| [[16:9]] || KCTS-HD || KYVE-HD || [[PBS]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 9.2 || 47.2 
| rowspan=3| [[480i]] || colspan=2; align="center"|KIDS || [[PBS Kids]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 9.3 || 47.3 
| colspan=2; align="center"|Create || [[Create (TV network)|Create]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 9.4 || 47.4 
| colspan=2; align="center"|WORLD || [[World Channel]]
|}

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KCTS-TV shut down its analog signal, over [[VHF]] channel 9, on June 12, 2009, as part of the [[Digital television transition in the United States|federally mandated transition from analog to digital television]].<ref name="Analog to Digital">{{Cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf|title=List of Digital Full-Power Stations|archive-date=August 29, 2013}}</ref> The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition [[UHF]] channel 41 to VHF channel 9.

===KYVE translators===
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|35004|3=K17IL-D}}''' [[Ellensburg]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|33751|3=K18AD-D}}''' [[East Wenatchee]]

==See also==
* [[Institute for Nonprofit News]] (member)

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.kcts9.org/ KCTS 9]
* [http://www.kcts9.org/about/kyve47 KYVE] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612212205/http://www.kcts9.org/about/kyve47 |date=June 12, 2010 }}
* [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/local/links/kctstimesline18.pdf History KCTS from 1954 through 2003 (Seattle Times)]
* [https://archives.lib.umd.edu/repositories/2/resources/659 Richard J. Meyer papers], at the [[University of Maryland Libraries]]. He was a manager of KCTS from 1972 to 1982 and helped in updating equipment, securing a larger budget for the station, and increasing community representation in the show with new employees from the local community.

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