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New Hampshire PBS, the Glossary

New Hampshire PBS (NHPBS), known as New Hampshire Public Television (NHPTV) prior to October 1, 2017, is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member network serving the U.S. state of New Hampshire.^[1]

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1959 establishments in New Hampshire
PBS member networks
Television stations in New Hampshire
University of New Hampshire buildings

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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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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Barre (city), Vermont

Barre is the most populous city in Washington County, Vermont, United States.

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Berlin, New Hampshire

Berlin is a city along the Androscoggin River in Coös County in northern New Hampshire, United States.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Bow High School

Bow High School is a four-year public high school in Bow, New Hampshire, United States, and is part of the.

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Broadcast license

A broadcast license is a type of spectrum license granting the licensee permission to use a portion of the radio frequency spectrum in a given geographical area for broadcasting purposes.

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Burlington, Vermont

Burlington is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the seat of Chittenden County.

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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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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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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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Color television

Color television (American English) or colour television (Commonwealth English) is a television transmission technology that includes color information for the picture, so the video image can be displayed in color on the television set.

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Connecticut River

The Connecticut River is the longest river in the New England region of the United States, flowing roughly southward for through four 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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Current (newspaper)

Current is an American trade journal that covers public broadcasting in the United States.

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Dark (broadcasting)

In broadcasting, a dark television station or silent radio station is one that has gone off the air for an indefinite period of time.

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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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DirecTV

DirecTV, LLC (trademarked as DIRECTV) is an American multichannel video programming distributor based in El Segundo, California.

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Dish Network

DISH Network L.L.C. (an acronym for "Digital Sky Highway"), a subsidiary of EchoStar, provides multichannel television and satellite television via DISH Network, mobile phone service via DISH Wireless (Boost Mobile), as well as over-the-top IPTV services via Sling TV.

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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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Durham, New Hampshire

Durham is a town in Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States.

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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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Granite State Challenge

Granite State Challenge is an American television quizbowl game show that airs on New Hampshire Public Television and began in 1983.

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Hanover, New Hampshire

Hanover is a town located along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.

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Hearst Television

Hearst Television, Inc. (formerly Hearst-Argyle Television) is a broadcasting company in the United States owned by Hearst Communications, made up of a group of television and radio stations, and Hearst Media Production Group, a distributor of programming in broadcast syndication.

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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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Ice hockey

Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.

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Jeopardy!

Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin.

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Keene, New Hampshire

Keene is a city in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States.

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Littleton, New Hampshire

Littleton is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.

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Maine Public Broadcasting Network

The Maine Public Broadcasting Network (abbreviated MPBN and branded as Maine Public) is a network of public television and radio stations located in the U.S. state of Maine. New Hampshire PBS and Maine Public Broadcasting Network are PBS member networks.

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Mary Ann Esposito

Mary Ann Esposito (born August 3, 1942) is an American chef, cookbook writer (having published over a dozen cookbooks), and the television host of Ciao Italia with Mary Ann Esposito, which started in 1989 and is the longest-running television cooking program in America.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Montpelier, Vermont

Montpelier is the capital of the U.S. state of Vermont and the county seat of Washington County.

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Mount Washington

Mount Washington, is an ultra-prominent mountain in the state of New Hampshire.

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Multiplex (television)

A multiplex or mux, also known as a bouquet, is a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium, particularly terrestrial broadcasting.

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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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New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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New Hampshire Fish and Game Department

The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department (NHF&G) is a department within the government of New Hampshire in the United States.

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New Hampshire Public Radio

New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR) is the National Public Radio member network serving the state of New Hampshire.

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New Hampshire Union Leader

The New Hampshire Union Leader is a daily newspaper from Manchester, the largest city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire.

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New Hampshire Wildcats men's ice hockey

The New Hampshire Wildcats men's ice hockey team is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college ice hockey program that represents the University of New Hampshire.

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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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North Woodstock, New Hampshire

North Woodstock is a census-designated place (CDP) and the primary village in the town of Woodstock in Grafton County, New Hampshire, 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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Pittsburg, New Hampshire

Pittsburg is a town in Coös County, New Hampshire, United States.

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Plattsburgh, New York

Plattsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Clinton County, New York, United States, situated on the north-western shore of Lake Champlain.

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Portland, Maine

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County.

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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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Tom Bergeron

Thomas Raymond Bergeron (born May 6, 1955) is an American television personality, comedian, and game show host, best known for hosting Breakfast Time from 1994 to 1997, Hollywood Squares from 1998 to 2004, America's Funniest Home Videos from 2001 to 2015, and Dancing with the Stars from 2005 to 2019 as well as being an anchor on Good Morning America from 1997 to 1998 and a cohost on the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2008.

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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 New Hampshire

The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire.

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University System of New Hampshire

The University System of New Hampshire (USNH) is a system of public colleges and universities in the U.S. state of New Hampshire.

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Vermont Public

Vermont Public Co. is the public broadcaster serving the U.S. state of Vermont. New Hampshire PBS and Vermont Public are PBS member networks.

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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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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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WGBH-TV

WGBH-TV (channel 2), branded GBH or GBH 2 since 2020, is the primary PBS member television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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WGBX-TV

WGBX-TV (channel 44), branded GBH 44, is the secondary PBS member television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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White River Junction, Vermont

White River Junction is an unincorporated village and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Hartford in Windsor County, Vermont, United States.

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WMTW (TV)

WMTW (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Poland Spring, Maine, United States, serving the Portland 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. New Hampshire PBS and World Channel are PBS member networks.

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Xfinity

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, doing business as Xfinity, is an American telecommunications business segment and division of the Comcast Corporation.

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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/New_Hampshire_PBS

Also known as NHPBS, NHPT, NHPTV, New Hampshire Public Broadcasting, New Hampshire Public Television, W15BK, W18BO, W26CQ, W27CP, W34DQ-D, W36FE-D, W50DP-D, W59AB, WEDB, WEDB-TV, WEKW, WEKW-TV, WENH, WENH-TV, WHED, WHED-TV, WLED, WLED-TV.

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See also

1959 establishments in New Hampshire

PBS member networks

Television stations in New Hampshire

University of New Hampshire buildings

References