Vermont PBS
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| statewide Vermont United States |
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| Slogan | Educate, inform, entertain and inspire |
| Channels | Digital: see table below |
| Subchannels | xx.1 PBS xx.2 PBS Plus xx.3 Create xx.4 PBS Kids |
| Affiliations | PBS (1970–present) |
| Owner | Vermont ETV, Inc. (original owner: University of Vermont) |
| First air date | October 16, 1967 |
| Call letters' meaning | see table below |
| Former affiliations | NET (1967–1970) |
| Transmitter power | see table below |
| Height | see table below |
| Facility ID | see table below |
| Transmitter coordinates | see table below |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
PBS Profile PBS CDBS |
| Website | www.vermontpbs.org |
Vermont PBS (VPBS) is the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member network for the U.S. state of Vermont. Originally owned and operated by the University of Vermont, the network has been operating since October 16, 1967. Eventually, UVM sold off the station to Vermont ETV, Inc., a community-based nonprofit group. Until 1997, it was known as Vermont Educational Television, or Vermont ETV (which is still the station's corporate name). Between 1997 and May 2014, it was known as Vermont Public Television or VPT.
VPBS's studios and offices are in Colchester, near Burlington.
VPBS was also relayed on analog translators W36AX in Manchester and W53AS in Bennington, which directly repeated WVER. These translators were used to feed cable systems on the Vermont side of the Albany–Schenectady–Troy, New York market. The translators' licenses were cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on December 28, 2011. However, WVER remains on most cable systems in southwestern Vermont.
On February 17, 2017, VPBS announced that it had sold the WVTA broadcast license for $56 million in the FCC's spectrum auction. In a statement, the network said that its other signals would be upgraded to cover the area served by WVTA.
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
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