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'''KLVX''', [[virtual (channel]] 10), ([[Verybranded high'''Vegas frequency|VHF]] [[Digital terrestrial television|digital]] channel 11)PBS''', is a Public Broadcasting Service ([[PBS]]) [[network affiliate#Member stations|member]] [[television station]] [[city of license|licensed]] toin [[Las Vegas|Las Vegas, Nevada]], United States. The station is owned by the [[Clark County School District]], andIt is the [[flagship (broadcasting)|flagship]] memberoutlet of the district'sKLVX communicationsCommunications armGroup, a subsidiary of the KLVX[[Clark CommunicationsCounty GroupSchool District]]. KLVX's studios are located at the Vegas PBS Educational Technology Campus in [[Paradise, Nevada|Paradise]], and its transmitter is located atop [[Black Mountain (Nevada)|Black Mountain]], near [[Henderson, Nevada|Henderson]] (southwest of [[Interstate 51511|I-51511]]/[[U.S. Route 93 in Nevada|US 93]]/[[U.S. Route 95 in Nevada|US 95]]).

[[File:Vegas PBS HQ, Feb 2017 2.jpg|thumb|HeadquartersStudio headquarters in [[Paradise, Nevada]]]]

In 1964, following the authorization of federal matching grants for the construction of [[non-commercial educational]] television facilities, the Clark County School Trustees proposed a [[state network]] of [[educational television]] stations offering television programming originating in Las Vegas. The proposal was vigorously opposed by educators in other communities, and in 1966, the school trustees gave up the proposal of a statewide service. The Trustees then sought and received [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) approval to construct a single educational station in Las Vegas. The channel 10 allocation was originally assigned to [[Bakersfield, California]]; [[KERO-TV]] occupied channel 10 from its sign-on in September 1953 until it was moved to channel 23 in the summer of 1963 after the FCC decided to make the Bakersfield and [[Fresno, California|Fresno]] markets all-[[ultra high frequency|UHF]] via the ''deintermixture'' process.

KLVX first signed on the air as Nevada's first educational station on March 25, 1968; this made the Las Vegas market the smallest market in the nation at the time to have five television stations. The state would not receive another educational station until [[Reno, Nevada|Reno]]'s [[KNPB]] signed on in 1983. Channel 10 originally operated from two converted classrooms located at the Southern Nevada Vocational Technical Center in Las Vegas. Students were involved in all engineering and production operations as part of a vocational training program of the School District.

In September 1968, the station activated four [[Instructional Television Fixed Service]] (ITFS) channels which offered live [[instructional television]] programs produced by the station covering foreign language, math and fine arts. Between 1978 and 1996, sixteen other ITFS channels were activated to provide 67,000 hours a year of instructional television programming, career professional development, college courses and staff orientations serving schools in the communities of Las Vegas, Henderson, [[North Las Vegas, Nevada|North Las Vegas]], [[Boulder City, Nevada|Boulder City]] and [[Pahrump, Nevada|Pahrump]]. In 1971, Charlotte Hill convened a group of community leaders who eventually founded Channel 10 Friends, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation established to raise private support for KLVX's non-instructional programs, and encourage community viewing of channel 10. The organization renamed itself Southern Nevada Public Television in 2002, when the group assumed leadership of a $64  million campaign to fund digital television conversion and a new building for the station's studio facilities.

In 2004, KLVX became the first station in the United States to demonstrate what digital television has to offer in times of emergency. That demonstration and the follow on technology led to the [[Digital Emergency Alert System]] (DEAS). During 2007, using $1.2&nbsp;million, KLVX installed equipment to broadcast DEAS data, including the ability to do so for up to seven days without external power. The grant also covers the installation of digital television data receivers in 120 [[Clark County School District Police Department]] vehicles.<ref name=lvs1>{{cite news |first=Emily |last=Richmond |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Vegas PBS at the ready in case of disaster or terror attack |url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2007/jul/06/566674252.html?klvx |work= |publisher=[[Las Vegas Sun]] |date=July 6, 2007 |accessdateaccess-date=July 8, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930033338/http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2007/jul/06/566674252.html?klvx |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In September 2006, KLVX rebranded as "Vegas PBS" to reflect its current multiple-channel offerings and diversified multimedia services provided to the [[Las Vegas metropolitan area]] and statewide schools, in addition to its regular programming on its main channel. In 2009, KLVX moved its operations from the Channel 10 Drive building to the {{convert|112000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} Vegas PBS Educational Technology Campus. The new facility houses the KLVX studios, the Clark County School District's Virtual High School and Educational Media Center and the Homeland Security and Emergency Response support system. The facility is also the first in the United States to meet the [[Media Security and Reliability Council]]'s guidelines.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lvrj.com/business/28279209.html |title=A base for broadcasting and bettering community |accessdateaccess-date=September 20, 2008 |work= |publisher= |date=}}</ref>

== DigitalTechnical televisioninformation ==

=== Digital channelsSubchannels ===

The station's digital signal is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:

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KLVX also operates [[MHztwo Worldview]]additional services, as well as Vegas PBS Rewind and Vegas PBS Jackpot!, as cable-only channels, in addition to distributing the [[World Channel]] in the market in the same manner.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vegaspbs.org/ |title=Home |website=vegaspbs.org}}</ref> As of June 1, 2022, both Vegas PBS Rewind and Vegas PBS Jackpot! have been removed on cable.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.vegaspbs.org/schedules/ | title=Schedules }}</ref>

KLVX shut down its analog signal, over [[Very high frequency|VHF]] channel 10, on June 12, 2009, the official date inon which full-power television stations in the United States [[Digital television transition in the United States|transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts]] under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 11.,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |format=PDF |accessdateaccess-date=March 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archivedatearchive-date=August 29, 2013 }}</ref> Through the use of [[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]], digital television receivers display the station'susing [[virtual channel]] as its former VHF analog channel 10.

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