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{{short description|TV station in Honolulu}}
{{other uses|Khet (disambiguation)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}}
{{Use American English|date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox television station dual
| name1                   = KHET
| logo                    = PBS Hawai'i logo (2020).png
| branding                = PBS Hawai'i
| digital1                = 11 ([[VHF]])
| virtual1                = 11
| translators             = ''see {{section link||Translators}}''
| affiliations            = {{ubl|'''11.1/10.1:''' [[PBS]]|'''11.2/10.2:''' [[PBS Kids]] / [[NHK World]]|'''11.3/10.3:''' PBS Kids 24/7}}
| airdate1                = {{start date and age|1966|4|15|p=y}}
| city1                   = [[Honolulu]], Hawaii
| country                 = United States
| callsign_meaning1       = Hawaii Educational Television
| former_channel_numbers1 = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 11 (VHF, 1966–2009)|'''Digital:''' 18 ([[UHF]], until 2009)}}
| owner                   = Hawaii Public Television Foundation
| former_affiliations     = [[National Educational Television|NET]] (1966–1970)
| erp1                    = 15.7&nbsp;[[kW]]
| haat1                   = {{convert|625|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id1            = 26431
| coordinates1            = {{coord|21|24|3|N|158|6|10|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority     = [[FCC]]
| website                 = {{url|www.pbshawaii.org}}
| name2                   = KMEB
| digital2                = 10 (VHF)
| virtual2                = 10
| airdate2                = {{start date and age|1966|9|22|p=y}}
| city2                   = [[Wailuku, Hawaii]]
| callsign_meaning2       = Maui Educational Broadcasting
| former_channel_numbers2 = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 10 (VHF, 1966–2009)|'''Digital:''' 30 (UHF, until 2009)}}
| erp2                    = 21.2&nbsp;kW
| haat2                   = {{convert|747|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id2            = 26428
| coordinates2            = {{coord|20|39|37|N|156|21|46|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KMEB}}
}}
'''KHET''' (channel 11), branded '''PBS Hawai'i''', is a [[PBS]] member [[television station]] in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]], United States, serving the [[Hawaiian Islands]]. Owned by the Hawaii Public Television Foundation, the station maintains studios at the Clarence T. C. Ching Campus on Sand Island Access Road along Nimitz Highway in Honolulu,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbshawaii.org/newhome|title=PBS Hawaii - NEW HOME Campaign|access-date=September 29, 2016}}</ref> and its main transmitter is located on Palehua Ridge, north of [[Makakilo]].<ref>[http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=KHET FCC information for KHET]</ref>

The station's signal is relayed across the rest of the state outside [[Oahu]] and metropolitan Honolulu on full-powered [[broadcast relay station#Satellite stations|satellite]] '''KMEB''' (channel 10) in [[Wailuku]] on [[Maui]] (with transmitter at Ulupalakua) and through a network of [[low-power broadcasting#Television|low-power]] [[broadcast relay station#Broadcast translators|translators]] on the other Hawaiian Islands.

==Station history==
[[File:KHET PBS Hawai'i logo.png|thumb|200px|left|Logo as "PBS Hawaii"; used from 2016 to early January 2020]]
KHET signed on the air for the first time on April 15, 1966; KMEB followed on six months later on September 22 of that year. KHET is the second outlet in Honolulu to occupy the channel 11 dial position, the first being KONA-TV from 1952 to 1955, when it moved to channel 2 because the higher VHFs (2 to 6) offered more ERPs at the time; that station is now [[KHON-TV]]. Had KONA not moved to channel 2, the channel would have remained a commercial allocation, as the FCC had intended to make channel 7 a non-commercial allocation for Honolulu in the first assignment, but the FCC relocated channel 7 to Wailuku in 1959 and made channel 11 a non-commercial allocation instead (the Wailuku allocation was intended to be on channel 8<ref>{{cite news|title=F.C.C. Authorizes KALA-TV Permit For Channel 7|date=November 5, 1958|page=26|work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40958236/|access-date=December 22, 2019}}</ref>). Originally known on-air as "Hawaii Educational Television" (or "Hawaii ETV"), it rebranded as "Hawaii Public Television" in 1970 and then became "PBS Hawai'i" in 2003.

PBS Hawaii had remained one of the few remaining American television stations that continued to sign off during the overnight hours, years after most PBS member stations had transitioned to a 24-hour schedule; until July 14, 2019, its over-the-air broadcast signals transmitted from 5&nbsp;a.m. to midnight daily, although beginning on July 1, 1996, PBS Hawaii maintained a separate 24-hour-a-day [[cable television|cable]] feed containing programming from the [[PBS Satellite Service]] during the over-the-air signals’ overnight [[Dark (broadcasting)|dark]] period (from midnight to 5&nbsp;a.m.). On July 15, 2019, coinciding with the launch of its DT3 subchannel (affiliated with [[PBS Kids#Network|PBS Kids 24/7]]), PBS Hawaii adopted a 24-hour schedule on its broadcast feed: on that date, the member network’s main channel added PBS Satellite Service overnight programming and its DT2 subchannel began offering an expanded schedule of PBS Kids programming in the former downtime.

Original materials from PBS Hawaii have also been contributed to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.<ref>{{Cite web|title=PBS Hawaii|url=https://americanarchive.org/participating-orgs/1748|access-date=July 23, 2020|website=americanarchive.org}}</ref>

==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The stations' signals are multiplexed:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KHET<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KHET#station|title=RabbitEars.Info|access-date=September 29, 2016}}</ref> and KMEB<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KMEB#station|title=RabbitEars.Info|access-date=September 29, 2016}}</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" rowspan="2"|Short name
! scope = "col" rowspan="2"|Programming
|-
! scope = "col" | {{small|KHET}}||{{small|KMEB}}
|-
! scope = "row" | 11.1 || 10.1 
| [[1080i]] || rowspan=3| [[16:9]] || KHET-1 || PBS 
|-
! scope = "row" | 11.2 || 10.2 
| rowspan=2| [[480i]] || KHET-2 || {{ubl|[[PBS Kids]] {{small|(midnight–6&nbsp;p.m.)}}|[[NHK World]] {{small|(6&nbsp;p.m.–midnight)}}}}
|-
! scope = "row" | 11.3 || 10.3 
| KHET-3 || [[PBS Kids]]
|}

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
Both stations ended regular programming on their analog signals, respectively on January 15, 2009, the date on which full-power television stations in Hawaii [[Digital television transition in the United States|transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts]] (almost five months earlier than the June 12 transition date for stations on the U.S. mainland):<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds |format=PDF |access-date=March 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 }}</ref>
* KHET ended regular programming on its analog signal, over [[VHF]] channel 11; the station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition [[UHF]] channel 18 to VHF channel 11.
* KMEB ended regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 10; the station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 30 to VHF channel 10.

===Translators===
PBS Hawai'i operates the following low-power translator stations:
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|26447|3=K36IJ-D}}''' [[Anahola]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|26422|3=K36OZ-D}}''' [[Hakalau]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|26434|3=K29HL-D}}''' [[Hanalei, Hawaii|Hanalei]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|167584|3=K28JV-D}}''' [[Hilo]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|26426|3=K34IS-D}}''' [[Kilauea, Hawaii|Kilauea]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|26425|3=K30JE-D}}''' [[Lihue]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|181318|3=K19JW-D}}''' [[Mauna Loa]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|26439|3=K31IZ-D}}''' [[Naalehu]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|26436|3=K35II-D}}''' [[Ka Lae|South Point]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|26442|3=K28JM-D}}''' [[Waimea, Hawaii County, Hawaii|Waimea]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|26444|3=K21IA-D}}''' Waipake

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Official website|http://www.pbshawaii.org/}}
*[https://americanarchive.org/participating-orgs/1748 PBS Hawaii in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting]

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