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Iowa PBS, the Glossary

Iowa PBS, formerly Iowa Public Television (IPTV), is a network of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member stations in the U.S. state of Iowa.^[1]

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1959 establishments in Iowa
PBS member networks
Television stations in Iowa

Agribusiness

Agribusiness is the industry, enterprises, and the field of study of value chains in agriculture and in the bio-economy, in which case it is also called bio-business or bio-enterprise.

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Alleman, Iowa

Alleman is a city in Polk County, Iowa, United States.

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Amateur sports

Amateur sports are sports in which participants engage largely or entirely without remuneration.

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American Public Television

American Public Television (APT) is an American nonprofit organization and syndicator of programming for public television stations in the United States.

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Ames, Iowa

Ames is a city in Story County, Iowa, United States, located approximately north of Des Moines in central Iowa.

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Aspect ratio (image)

The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of its width to its height.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.

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Bettendorf, Iowa

Bettendorf is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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Bowling

Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling).

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Bradgate, Iowa

Bradgate is a city in Humboldt County, Iowa, United States, at the conjunction of Sections 5, 6, 7, and 8 of Avery Township, and rests near the banks of the West Fork of the Des Moines River.

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Cable television headend

A cable television headend is a master facility for receiving television signals for processing and distribution over a cable television system.

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Cedar Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Linn County, Iowa, United States.

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Channel (broadcasting)

In broadcasting, a channel or frequency channel is a designated radio frequency (or, equivalently, wavelength), assigned by a competent frequency assignment authority for the operation of a particular radio station, television station or television channel.

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Charge! (TV network)

Charge! is an American digital broadcast television network owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group that airs action and adventure-based programming.

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City of license

In U.S., Canadian, and Mexican broadcasting, a city of license or community of license is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator.

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Comet (TV network)

Comet is an American digital broadcast television network owned by the Sinclair Television Group subsidiary of the Sinclair Broadcast Group that focuses on science fiction, supernatural, horror, adventure and fantasy programming.

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Council Bluffs, Iowa

Council Bluffs is a city in and the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States.

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Create (TV network)

Create is an American digital broadcast public television network broadcast on digital subchannels of PBS member stations.

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Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass.

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Davenport, Iowa

Davenport is a city in and the county seat of Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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Decorah, Iowa

Decorah is a city in and the county seat of Winneshiek County, Iowa, United States.

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The Des Moines Independent Community School District (The Des Moines Public Schools, or DMPS) is the largest public school district in Iowa.

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Des Moines, Iowa

Des Moines is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Digital television transition in the United States

The digital transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of terrestrial television programming.

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Digital terrestrial television

Digital terrestrial television (DTTV, DTT, or DTTB) is a technology for terrestrial television where television stations broadcast television content in a digital format.

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Display resolution

The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor, or other display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed.

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Diving (sport)

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, usually while performing acrobatics.

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Effective radiated power

Effective radiated power (ERP), synonymous with equivalent radiated power, is an IEEE standardized definition of directional radio frequency (RF) power, such as that emitted by a radio transmitter.

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Facility ID

The facility ID number, also called a FIN or facility identifier, is a unique integer number of one to six digits, assigned by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Media Bureau to each broadcast station in the FCC Consolidated Database System (CDBS) and Licensing and Management System (LMS) databases, among others.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.

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Fort Dodge, Iowa

Fort Dodge is a city in and the county seat of Webster County, Iowa, United States, along the Des Moines River.

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Fort Madison, Iowa

Fort Madison is a city and a county seat of Lee County, Iowa, United States along with Keokuk.

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Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

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Hancock, Iowa

Hancock is a city in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States, along the West Nishnabotna River.

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Height above average terrain

Height above average terrain (HAAT), or (less popularly) effective height above average terrain (EHAAT), is the vertical position of an antenna site above the surrounding landscape.

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High-definition television

High-definition television (HDTV) describes a television or video system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Iowa

Iowa is a doubly landlocked state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Iowa caucuses

The Iowa caucuses are quadrennial electoral events for the Democratic and Republican parties in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Iowa City, Iowa

Iowa City is the county seat and largest city of Johnson County, Iowa, United States.

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Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union

The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union (IGHSAU) is the governing body for girls' junior and senior high school sports in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Iowa State University

Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa.

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Johnston, Iowa

Johnston is a city in Polk County, Iowa, United States.

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KDSM-TV

KDSM-TV (channel 17) is a television station in Des Moines, Iowa, United States, affiliated with the Fox network.

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Keokuk, Iowa

Keokuk is a city in and a county seat of Lee County, Iowa, United States.

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Keosauqua, Iowa

Keosauqua is a city in Van Buren County, Iowa, United States.

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Lansing, Iowa

Lansing is a city in Lansing Township, Allamakee County, Iowa, United States.

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List of governors of Iowa

The governor of Iowa is the head of government of the U.S. state of Iowa.

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List of PBS member stations

This is a list of member stations of the Public Broadcasting Service, a network of non-commercial educational television stations in the United States.

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Mason City, Iowa

Mason City is a city and the county seat of Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.

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Mediacom Communications Corporation is the United States' fifth-largest cable television provider based on the number of video subscribers, and among the leading cable operators focused on serving smaller cities and towns.

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Meyer, Iowa

Meyer is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Stacyville Township, Mitchell County, in the state of Iowa, United States.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Missouri

Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Moline, Illinois

Moline is a city located in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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National Educational Television

National Educational Television (NET) was an American educational broadcast television network owned by the Ford Foundation and later co-owned by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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Nebraska

Nebraska is a triply landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Nebraska Public Media, formerly Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET), is a state network of public radio and television stations in the U.S. state of Nebraska. Iowa PBS and Nebraska Public Media are PBS member networks.

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Non-commercial educational station

A non-commercial educational station (NCE station) is a radio station or television station that does not accept on-air advertisements (TV ads or radio ads), as defined in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and was originally intended to offer educational programming as part, or whole, of its programming.

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Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County.

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Orion, Illinois

Orion is a village in Henry County, Illinois, United States.

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Ottumwa, Iowa

Ottumwa is a city in and the county seat of Wapello County, Iowa, United States.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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PBS Kids

PBS Kids (stylized as PBS KIDS) is the brand for most of the children's programming aired by PBS in the United States.

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Quad Cities

The Quad Cities is a region of cities (originally four, see History) in the U.S. states of Iowa and Illinois: Davenport and Bettendorf in southeastern Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline and East Moline in northwestern Illinois.

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Red Oak, Iowa

Red Oak is a city in, and the county seat of, Montgomery County, Iowa, United States, located along the East Nishnabotna River.

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Rock Island, Illinois

Rock Island is a city in and the county seat of Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Rock Rapids, Iowa

Rock Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Lyon County, Iowa, United States.

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Rowley, Iowa

Rowley is a city in Buchanan County, Iowa, United States.

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Sibley, Iowa

Sibley is a city in Osceola County, Iowa, United States.

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Sioux City, Iowa

Sioux City is a city in Woodbury and Plymouth counties in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Softball

Softball is a popular variation of baseball, the difference being that it is played with a larger ball on a smaller field and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) permitted.

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South Dakota

South Dakota (Sioux: Dakȟóta itókaga) is a landlocked state in the North Central region of the United States.

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South Dakota Public Broadcasting

South Dakota Public Broadcasting (SDPB) is a network of non-commercial educational television and radio stations serving the U.S. state of South Dakota. Iowa PBS and South Dakota Public Broadcasting are PBS member networks.

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Standard-definition television

Standard-definition television (SDTV; also standard definition or SD) is a television system that uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high or enhanced definition.

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Swimming (sport)

Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water.

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Television broadcaster

A television broadcaster or television network is a telecommunications network for the distribution of television content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations, pay television providers or, in the United States, multichannel video programming distributors.

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

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Terry Branstad

Terry Edward Branstad (born November 17, 1946) is an American politician and former diplomat.

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Track and field

Athletics (or track and field in the United States) is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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Ultra high frequency

Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (one decimeter).

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University of Iowa

The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States.

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Vermillion, South Dakota

Vermillion (Waséoyuze; "The Place Where Vermilion is Obtained") is a city and the county seat of Clay County.

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Very high frequency

Very high frequency (VHF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) from 30 to 300 megahertz (MHz), with corresponding wavelengths of ten meters to one meter.

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Virtual channel

In most telecommunications organizations, a virtual channel is a method of remapping the program number as used in H.222 Program Association Tables and Program Mapping Tables to a channel number that can be entered as digits on a receiver's remote control.

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Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.

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Waterloo, Iowa

Waterloo is a city in and the county seat of Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.

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West Branch, Iowa

West Branch is a city in Cedar and Johnson counties in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States.

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WOI (AM)

WOI (640 kHz) – branded Iowa Public Radio – is a non-commercial AM radio station licensed to Ames, Iowa, and serving the Des Moines metropolitan area.

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WOI-DT

WOI-DT (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Ames, Iowa, United States, serving the Des Moines area as an affiliate of ABC.

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World Channel

World Channel, also branded as World (stylized as WORLD), is an American digital multicast public television network owned and operated by the WGBH Educational Foundation. Iowa PBS and World Channel are PBS member networks.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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WQPT-TV

WQPT-TV, virtual channel 24 (UHF digital channel 23), is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Moline, Illinois, United States, serving the Quad Cities area of northwestern Illinois and southeastern Iowa. Iowa PBS and WQPT-TV are television stations in Iowa.

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WSUI

WSUI (910 AM) is a public radio station in Iowa City, Iowa.

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1080i

1080i (also known as BT.709) is a combination of frame resolution and scan type.

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16:9 aspect ratio

16:9 is a widescreen aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9 units.

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480i

480i is the video mode used for standard-definition digital video in the Caribbean, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Myanmar, Western Sahara, and most of the Americas (with the exception of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay).

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720p

720p (720 lines progressive) is a progressive HD signal format with 720 horizontal lines/1280 columns and an aspect ratio (AR) of 16:9, normally known as widescreen HD (1.78:1).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_PBS

Also known as IEBN, Iowa Public Broadcasting Board, Iowa Public Television, K14AF, K18GU-D, K19KX-D, K24IM-D, K25AA, K25PE-D, K26JI-D, K28JD-D, K28KK-D, K31NJ-D, K33AA, K33AB, K33PV-D, K38AB, K39LW-D, K41AD, K43LX-D, K44AB, K44AB-D, K54AF, KBIN, KBIN-TV, KDIN, KDIN-TV, KHIN, KHIN-TV, KIIN, KIIN-TV, KQCT, KQIN, KQIN-TV, KRIN, KRIN-TV, KSIN, KSIN-TV, KTIN, KTIN-TV, KYIN, KYIN-TV, Market to Market.

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Iowa PBS, the Glossary

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See also

1959 establishments in Iowa

PBS member networks

Television stations in Iowa

References