KBDI-TV
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Broomfield/Denver, Colorado United States |
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| City | Broomfield, Colorado |
| Branding | Colorado Public Television |
| Slogan | World View, Community Voice |
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Digital: 13 (VHF) Virtual: 12 () |
| Translators | (see article) |
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| Owner | Colorado Public Television, Inc. |
| First air date | February 22, 1980 |
| Call letters' meaning | Broomfield/Denver |
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| Transmitter power | 33.6 kW |
| Height | 738 m |
| Facility ID | 22685 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°40′55″N 105°29′51″W / 39.68194°N 105.49750°WCoordinates: 39°40′55″N 105°29′51″W / 39.68194°N 105.49750°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
Colorado Public Television, formerly KBDI-TV, virtual channel 12 (VHF digital channel 13), is a PBS member television station in Denver, Colorado, United States that is licensed to Broomfield. The station is owned by Colorado Public Television, Inc. KBDI maintains studio facilities located on Welton and 29th Streets in the Five Points neighborhood (just northeast of downtown Denver), and its transmitter is located atop Squaw Mountain (just west of Evergreen, in Clear Creek County).
The station is branded on-air as Colorado Public Television (or "CPT12"); KBDI's programming reaches over 80% of Colorado's population through its low-powered translators in Boulder and Colorado Springs. It also has gained cable viewership throughout the Western Slope.
In 1977, a small group of community leaders formed the Front Range Educational Media Corporation (FREMCO) and filed an application to the Federal Communications Commission for the VHF channel 12 license, the second of two channel frequencies in the Denver market assigned for noncommercial educational use (after KRMA-TV (channel 6), which signed on in January 1956), as part of its policy to provide multiple educational television services throughout the United States. The FCC granted the license to FREMCO in 1979. KBDI-TV first signed on the air on February 22, 1980. The station initially operated from a garage in Broomfield and used a juice can as a makeshift transmitting antenna. The channel 12 allocation was originally intended for the University of Colorado at Boulder, but was assigned to Broomfield-based FREMCO when the FCC's plans to assign an educational television station that would exclusively serve the Boulder area fell through. Later in the decade, KBDI installed a transmitter and broadcast tower atop 3,501-metre (11,486 ft) Squaw Mountain (located 16 miles (26 km) due west of Denver); it is the highest full-power television transmitting antenna in the United States. With the tower, KBDI expanded its signal to cover the entire Denver metropolitan area, and eventually the entire Front Range. In 1989, the station moved its offices and studios to Denver, originally at a facility on Stout Street and then subsequently to a building on North Federal Boulevard. Finally in 1994, the station moved its operations into the new Five Points Media Center facility on Welton Street in the city's Five Points neighborhood. KBDI purchased the building outright in 2006.
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