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KET ED, the Glossary

KET ED, known as the Education Channel, was a digital television programming service operated by PBS member network Kentucky Educational Television.^[1]

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Defunct mass media in Kentucky
Kentucky Educational Television
Public television in the United States
Television stations in Kentucky

Agency for Instructional Technology

The Agency for Instructional Technology (AIT) was a non-profit organization in the United States that produced, sold and distributed educational and instructional television programs, and other multimedia materials, to schools in the United States and Canada. KET ED and Agency for Instructional Technology are public television in the United States.

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Annenberg Foundation

The Annenberg Foundation is a foundation that provides funding and support to non-profit organizations.

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Ashland, Kentucky

Ashland is a home rule-class city in Boyd County, Kentucky, United States.

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Augusta, Kentucky

Augusta is a home rule-class city in Bracken County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is located upon the southern bank of the Ohio River. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 1,096. When Bracken County was organized in 1796, Augusta was the county seat. In 1839, a new county courthouse was built at a more central location in Brooksville.

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Bowling Green, Kentucky

Bowling Green is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Warren County, Kentucky, United States.

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Broadcast relay station

A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio) or complementary station (Mexico), is a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or transponds) the signal of a radio or television station to an area not covered by the originating station.

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Broadcast syndication

Broadcast syndication is the practice of content owners leasing the right to broadcast television shows or radio programs to multiple television stations or radio stations, without having an official broadcast network to air on.

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Cable television

Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables.

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Call sign

In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a call name or call letters—and historically as a call signal—or abbreviated as a call) is a unique identifier for a transmitter station.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America and some Caribbean islands.

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Cincinnati

Cincinnati (nicknamed Cincy) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.

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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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Covington, Kentucky

Covington is a home rule-class city in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States.

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Dentist

A dentist, also known as a dental surgeon, is a health care professional who specializes in dentistry, the branch of medicine focused on the teeth, gums, and mouth.

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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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Distance education

Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Elizabethtown, Kentucky

Elizabethtown is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Hardin County, Kentucky, United States.

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Evansville, Indiana

Evansville is a city in and the county seat of Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States.

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Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area

The Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area is a national, bi-state area on the Ohio River near Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States, administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in partnership with Indiana Department of Natural Resources.

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Falmouth, Kentucky

Falmouth is a home rule-class city in, and the county seat of, Pendleton County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Farm

A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production.

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Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (often referred to simply as Fat Albert) is an American animated television series created, produced, and hosted (in live action bookends) by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself.

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Fort Boonesborough State Park

Fort Boonesborough was a frontier fort in Kentucky, founded by Daniel Boone and his men following their crossing of the Kentucky River on April 1, 1775.

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Frankfort, Kentucky

Frankfort is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kentucky and the seat of Franklin County.

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Hazard, Kentucky

Hazard is a home rule-class city in, and the county seat of, Perry County, Kentucky, United States.

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Henderson, Kentucky

Henderson is a home rule-class city along the Ohio River and the county seat of Henderson County, Kentucky, United States.

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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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Hopkinsville, Kentucky

Hopkinsville is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Christian County, Kentucky, United States.

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Huntington, West Virginia

Huntington is a city in Cabell and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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Illinois

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

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Indiana

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

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Instructional television

Instructional television (ITV) is the use of television programs for distance education. KET ED and Instructional television are public television in the United States.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Kentucky Channel

The Kentucky Channel, also known by its Program and System Information Protocol short name and on-screen logo bug as KET KY, is a full-time 24/7 statewide digital television programming service originating from PBS member state-network Kentucky Educational Television. KET ED and Kentucky Channel are English-language television stations in the United States, Kentucky Educational Television, television networks in the United States and television stations in Kentucky.

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Kentucky Educational Television

Kentucky Educational Television (KET) is a statewide television network serving the U.S. commonwealth of Kentucky, a member of PBS. KET ED and Kentucky Educational Television are educational and instructional television channels and television stations in Kentucky.

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Lexington, Kentucky

Lexington is a consolidated city coterminous with, and the county seat of, Fayette County, Kentucky, United States.

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Louisa, Kentucky

Louisa is a home-rule class city located in eastern Kentucky, United States, at the merger of the Levisa and Tug Forks into the Big Sandy River, which forms part of the state's border with West Virginia.

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Louisville Zoo

The Louisville Zoological Gardens, commonly known as the Louisville Zoo, is a zoo in Louisville, Kentucky, situated in the city's Poplar Level neighborhood.

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Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States.

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Madisonville, Kentucky

Madisonville is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Hopkins County, Kentucky, United States, located along Interstate 69 in the state's Western Coal Fields region.

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Mammoth Cave National Park

Mammoth Cave National Park is a national park in south-central Kentucky, US.

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Martin, Tennessee

Martin is a city in Weakley County, Tennessee, United States.

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Mayfield, Kentucky

Mayfield is a home rule–class city and the county seat of Graves County, Kentucky, United States.

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Mississippi County, Missouri

Mississippi County is a county located in the Bootheel of the U.S. state of Missouri, with its eastern border formed by the Mississippi River.

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Morehead, Kentucky

Morehead is a home rule-class city located along US 60 (the historic Midland Trail) and Interstate 64 in Rowan County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Murray, Kentucky

Murray is a home rule-class city in Calloway County, Kentucky, United States.

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Museum

A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying and/or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects.

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National Weather Service Louisville, Kentucky

National Weather Service Louisville is a weather forecast office responsible for monitoring weather conditions for 49 counties in north-central, south-central, and east-central Kentucky and 10 counties in southern Indiana.

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O. Leonard Press

O. KET ED and O. Leonard Press are Kentucky Educational Television.

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Ohio

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

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Old Fort Harrod State Park

Old Fort Harrod State Park is a park located in Harrodsburg, Kentucky in the United States.

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Owensboro, Kentucky

Owensboro is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Daviess County, Kentucky, United States.

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Owenton, Kentucky

Owenton is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Owen County, Kentucky, United States.

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Paducah, Kentucky

Paducah is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, 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. KET ED and PBS are educational and instructional television channels, English-language television stations in the United States, public television in the United States and television networks in the United States.

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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. KET ED and PBS Kids are television networks in the United States.

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Pikeville, Kentucky

Pikeville is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Pike County, Kentucky, United States.

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Program and System Information Protocol

The Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) is the MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group, a video and audio industry group) and privately defined program-specific information originally defined by General Instrument for the DigiCipher 2 system and later extended for the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a television station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch by title and description.

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Satellite television

Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location.

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Sign-on and sign-off

A sign-on (or start-up in Commonwealth countries except Canada) is the beginning of operations for a radio or television station, generally at the start of each day.

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SMPTE color bars

SMPTE color bars are a television test pattern used where the NTSC video standard is utilized, including countries in North America.

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Somerset, Kentucky

Somerset is a home rule-class city in Pulaski County, Kentucky, United States.

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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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Tennessee

Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Terrestrial television

Terrestrial television or over-the-air television (OTA) is a type of television broadcasting in which the content is transmitted via radio waves from the terrestrial (Earth-based) transmitter of a TV station to a TV receiver having an antenna.

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Test card

A test card, also known as a test pattern or start-up/closedown test, is a television test signal, typically broadcast at times when the transmitter is active but no program is being broadcast (often at sign-on and sign-off).

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The CW

The CW Television Network (commonly referred to as the CW or simply CW) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is controlled by Nexstar Media Group through a 75-percent ownership interest. KET ED and the CW are television networks in the United States.

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The WB

The WB Television Network (shortened to The WB, and nicknamed the "Frog Network" or "The Frog" for its former mascot Michigan J. Frog) was an American television network launched on broadcast television on January 11, 1995, as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner and the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Company, with the former acting as controlling partner (and from which The WB received its name).

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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UPN

The United Paramount Network (UPN) was an American broadcast television network that operated from 1995 to 2006.

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Video on demand

Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos, television shows and films digitally on request.

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Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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WKMJ-TV

WKMJ-TV (channel 68) is a PBS member television station in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. KET ED and WKMJ-TV are Kentucky Educational Television.

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WKPC-TV

WKPC-TV (channel 15) is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Louisville, Kentucky, United States. KET ED and WKPC-TV are Kentucky Educational Television.

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WKPD

WKPD (channel 29) is a PBS member television station licensed to Paducah, Kentucky, United States. KET ED and WKPD are Kentucky Educational Television.

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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. KET ED and World Channel are English-language television stations in the United States and television networks in the United States.

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2006 United States broadcast television realignment

In January 2006, the United States' two "second-tier" television networks, UPN and The WB, announced they would both cease operations on September 15 and 17 respectively, and their operations would be transferred to a new joint-venture "fifth" network, The CW.

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2017 in American television

In American television in 2017, notable events included television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; and information about controversies and carriage disputes.

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References

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

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See also

Defunct mass media in Kentucky

Kentucky Educational Television

Public television in the United States

Television stations in Kentucky

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