ksys medford oregon u.s. kfts klamath falls oregon u.s. united states branding soptv slogan connecting our community channels digital ksys 8 vhf kfts 33 uhf virtual ksys 8 psip kfts 22 psip subchannels x. 1 pbs x. 2 pbs world x. 3 create translators see article affiliations pbs owner southern oregon public television inc. first air date ksys january 17 1977 1977 01 17 kfts january 1989 1989 01 former channel number s analog ksys 8 vhf 1977 2009 kfts 22 uhf 1989 2009 digital ksys 42 uhf 2009 transmitter power ksys 16.9 kw kfts 9.6 kw height ksys 818 m 2 684 ft kfts 649 m 2 129 ft facility id ksys 61350 kfts 61335 transmitter coordinates ksys 42 41 31.7 n 123 13 49.3 w 42.692139 n 123.230361 w 42.692139 ; 123.230361 ksys kfts 42 5 50 n 121 37 59 w 42.09722 n 121.63306 w 42.09722 ; 121.63306 kfts licensing authority fcc public license information kfts profile kfts cdbs website www.soptv.org southern oregon public television is the public broadcasting service pbs member public television for most of southwest region of the u.s. state of oregon . it operates ksys channel 8 in medford and kfts digital channel 33 in klamath falls . in 1965 oregon educational broadcasting forerunner of oregon public broadcasting persuaded the federal communications commission fcc to reassign channel 8 from brookings to medford . oeb intended to make channel 8 the third station in its television network which at that time included flagship koac tv in corvallis and koap tv now kopb tv in portland . southern oregon was the only region of the state without public television . however oeb backed out after a protracted battle with several commercial applicants . the license eventually went to liberty television owners of kezi in eugene . however the owners of the two commercial stations in the area bill smullin of ktvm tv now kobi and ray johnson of kmed tv now ktvl helped a new nonprofit corporation southern oregon educational company buy the channel 8 construction permit from liberty . they also pledged payments of 50 000 once the station signed on . getting the funds to sign on proved more difficult than expected . with the fcc permit about to run out ksys went on the air on january 17 1977 with the strongest signal of any station in the region at 191 000 watts . this was still not enough to cover klamath falls and soec later renamed southern oregon public television inc. immediately applied for another station to cover that region . however it took 12 more years before kfts went on the air in january 1989 . the two stations are the only public television stations in the state not affiliated with opb but occasionally air some of opb s programs . they also carry local pbs and american public television programs along with programs from other distributors . contents 1 digital television 1.1 digital channels 1.2 analog to digital conversion 2 rebroadcasters 3 references 4 external links digital television edit digital channels edit the soptv network digital signals is multiplexed channel video aspect psip short name programming x. 1 1080i 16 9 soptv hd main soptv programming pbs x. 2 480i 4 3 soptv sd pbs world x. 3 soptv or create soptv also operates a cable only channel on charter communications channel 21 in medford featuring popular pbs programming at alternate times . soptv is also one of the partners of the oregon channel a public affairs network . programing consist of oregon legislative sessions and other public affairs events . it was previously featured also on the x. 3 subchannel until it was made exclusively available only on cable . analog to digital conversion edit soptv s stations shut down their analog signals on february 17 2009 the original target date in which full power television stations in the united states were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate which was later pushed back to june 12 2009 . the station s digital channel allocations post transition are as follows 1 ksys shut down its analog signal over vhf channel 8 ; the station s digital signal relocated from its pre transition uhf channel 42 to vhf channel 8 due to problems caused by uhf s severe terrain limitations . 2 kfts shut down its analog signal over uhf channel 22 ; the station s digital signal remained on its pre transition uhf channel 33 using psip to display the station s virtual channel as its former uhf analog channel 22 . rebroadcasters edit soptv is rebroadcast on the following translator stations . some channels currently broadcasting are not listed in the fcc database . as of august 2014 all translators below are verified except k02jf butte falls and k04ki merrill city grade translators ksys ld channel 42 medford digital city grade signal k34dj channel 34 medford phoenix city grade signal repeater stations k02jf channel 2 butte falls k02jg d channel 2 prospect k02jj d channel 2 williams k04ki channel 4 merrill k13pe d channel 13 shady cove k13pf d channel 13 pinehurst k13pi d channel 13 applegate k15im d channel 15 brookings k22iq d channel 22 cave junction k27kw d channel 27 gold hill ksys ld channel 42 jacksonville service to gold beach lakeview paisley port orford silver lake and wedderburn is provided by oregon public broadcasting . references edit dtv tentative channel designations for the first and the second rounds pdf . retrieved 2012 03 24 . http hraunfoss.fcc.gov edocs public attachmatch fcc 07 90a1.pdf external links edit soptv website history of television in southern oregon query the fcc s tv station database for ksys query the fcc s tv station database for kfts biafn s media web database information on ksys tv biafn s media web database information on kfts tv v t e broadcast television in southern oregon and siskiyou county california including medford klamath falls and yreka medford kobi 5.1 nbc 5.2 this tv ksys 8.1 pbs hd 8.2 world 8.3 create ktvl 10.1 cbs 10.2 cw 10.3 comet tv 10.4 grit tv kdrv 12.1 abc 12.2 antenna tv kmcw lp 14 tmd kmvu 26.1 fox 26.2 metv kbln 30.1 3abn kdov lp 44.1 christian ind. kfbi ld 48.1 mntv 48.2 telemundo klamath falls koti 2.1 nbc 2.2 accuwx k19hh d 10.1 cbs 10.2 cw kfts 22.1 pbs hd 22.2 world 22.3 create kdkf 31.1 abc 31.2 sd local cable channels soptv cable 21 pbs csn northwest csn bay area csn west northwest cable news the oregon channel root sports northwest rvtv ashland mctv weed california yctv yreka california defunct k41ix 41 tbn kbsc 49 ind california television bakersfield chico redding eureka fresno las vegas nv los angeles medford or monterey inland empire palm springs reno nv sacramento san diego san francisco santa barbara el centro ca yuma az see also eugene tv v t e pbs member stations in the state of oregon opb koac 7 kepb 29 corvallis eugene kopb 10 portland koab 11 bend ktvr 13 la grande soptv ksys 8 kfts 22 medford klamath falls see also abc cbs cw fox ion mynetworktv nbc pbs other stations in oregon v t e public broadcasting in the united states corporation for public broadcasting radio syndicators 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