KAWE

Bemidji, Minnesota United States
Channels	Digital: 9 (VHF) Virtual: 9
Branding	Lakeland PBS
Programming
Affiliations	9.1: PBS for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Northern Minnesota Public Television, Inc.
History
First air date	June 1, 1980 (43 years ago) (1980-06-01)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 9 (VHF, 1980–2009) Digital: 18 (UHF, until 2009)
Call sign meaning	Derived from the Ojibwe word 'akawe' generally meaning 'first in a line of succession'
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	49578
ERP	27.0 kW
HAAT	334.7 m (1,098 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	47°42′3″N 94°29′15″W / 47.70083°N 94.48750°W / 47.70083; -94.48750 (KAWE)
Translator(s)	See § Translators
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	lptv.org
Satellite station
KAWB
Brainerd, Minnesota United States
Channels	Digital: 28 (UHF) Virtual: 22
Programming
Affiliations	22.1: PBS for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Northern Minnesota Public Television, Inc.
History
First air date	March 1, 1988 (36 years ago) (1988-03-01)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 22 (UHF, 1988–2009)
Call sign meaning	"KAWE Brainerd"
Technical information[2]
Facility ID	49579
ERP	137.5 kW
HAAT	227 m (745 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	46°25′21″N 94°27′42″W / 46.42250°N 94.46167°W / 46.42250; -94.46167 (KAWB)
Translator(s)	See § Translators
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS

KAWE (channel 9) is a PBS member television station in Bemidji, Minnesota, 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 Blackduck, Minnesota.

KAWB (channel 22) in Brainerd operates as a full-time satellite of KAWE; this station's transmitter is located near East Gull Lake, Minnesota. 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 simulcast of KAWE; on-air references to KAWB are limited to Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-mandated hourly station identifications during programming.

The two stations are collectively branded as Lakeland PBS.^[3] 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 translators of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul television stations.

Lakeland PBS utilizes KAWB's channel 22 position on DirecTV and Dish Network's Twin Cities local lineups to avert confusion with Fox owned-and-operated station KMSP-TV (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.^{[citation needed]}

Technical information

Subchannels

Lakeland PBS' television signals are multiplexed into six subchannels.

Translators

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