WHERE IS KTXT-TV IN THE PROCESS?

LUBBOCK�Texas Tech University�s educational television station, KTXT-TV Channel 5, (Cox Cable Channel 4), will launch digital service to the viewers of the South Plains at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, (Dec. 11) at the station located at 17^th Street and Indiana Avenue.
 
   �This is a major step for public broadcasting on the South Plains,� said Pat Cates, general manager for the station. KTXT-TV�s digital signal will be broadcast over channel 39 and will require a digital receiver to tune in to the programming.  You will still be able to receive Channel 5 programming on your analog television until at least 2006.

KTXT-TV, the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) affiliate for the South Plains, will operate its digital signal at full power and joins local stations KCBD Channel 11, which launched digital service in 2002, KJTV Channel 34, KLBK Channel 13 and KAMC Channel 28, which all launched digital services earlier this year.

KTXT-TV signed on the air in 1962 and is owned and operated by Texas Tech University. The transition to digital technology Phase One was made possible in part by grants from the Helen Jones Foundation, Houston Endowment, Meadows Foundation, Texas Infrastructure Fund and the Public Telecommunications Facilities Fund.
           

BACK TO
DIGITAL
TRANSITION