KAWE (channel 9) is a

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member

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, United States, owned by Northern Minnesota Public Television, Inc. The station's studios are located on Grant Avenue Northeast in Bemidji, and its transmitter is located southeast of

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. KAWB (channel 22) in Brainerd operates as a full-time

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of KAWE; this station's transmitter is located near

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. KAWB covers areas of central Minnesota that receive a marginal to non-existent over-the-air signal from KAWE, although there is significant overlap between the two stations' contours otherwise. KAWB is a straight

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of KAWE; on-air references to KAWB are limited to

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(FCC)-mandated hourly

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s during programming. The two stations are collectively branded as Lakeland PBS. The network first took to the air on June 1, 1980, and was formerly known as Lakeland Public Television; it re-branded on January 8, 2018, to better align its brand with PBS. It is the only full-power television broadcasting operation based in north central Minnesota, an area that is served mainly by

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of the

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television stations. Lakeland PBS utilizes KAWB's channel 22 position on

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and

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's Twin Cities local lineups to avert confusion with

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(channel 9) in Minneapolis.

Newscasts

Lakeland PBS produces a 30-minute local newscast Monday through Friday. The newscast originates from its studios in Bemidji, and the station also has a news-production facility in Brainerd. Lakeland PBS airs the only local newscast in north central Minnesota.

Technical information

Subchannels

Lakeland PBS' television signals are

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into six subchannels.

Translators

The broadcast areas of KAWE and KAWB are extended by way of nine digital translators in northern and central Minnesota. *

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: (translates KAWB) *

Baudette Baudette is a city in, and the county seat of, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 966. Baudette is known as the Walleye Capital of the World. History Baudette was incorporated in 19 ...

: (translates KAWE) * Big Falls: (translates KAWE) * Birchdale: (translates KAWE) *

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: (translates KAWE) * Red Lake: (translates KAWE) *

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: (translates KAWE) *

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: (translates KAWE 9.1) *

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: (translates KAWE)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kawe 1980 establishments in Minnesota Brainerd, Minnesota First Nations Experience affiliates PBS member stations Television channels and stations established in 1980 Television stations in Minnesota