KEET

KEET
Channels
BrandingKEET PBS
Programming
Affiliations13.1: PBS
Ownership
OwnerRedwood Empire Public Television, Inc.
History
Founded1969
First air date
April 14, 1969 (1969-04-14)
Former call signs
KRWE-TV (CP, 1967)
Former channel numbers
Analog: 13 (VHF, 1969–2009)
NET (1969–1970)
Call sign meaning
Eureka Educational Television
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
55435
ERP38.2 kW
HAAT551.2 m (1,808 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
40°43′41.9″N 123°58′21.5″W / 40.728306°N 123.972639°W / 40.728306; -123.972639
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Links
Public license information
Websitewww.keet.org

KEET (channel 13) is a PBS member television station in Eureka, California, United States. Founded in 1969, the station is owned by Redwood Empire Public Television, Inc. KEET's studios are located on Humboldt Hill Road in Eureka, and its transmitter is located along Barry Road southeast of the city.

On September 15, 2025, it was announced that KEET would discontinue programming on its subchannels beginning in October, opting to focus on its main channel after the loss of 50% of its federal grant funding, which in fiscal year 2024 was $862,900 of taxpayer funds from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

In mid-2025, the station had seven employees.

Technical information

Subchannel

Subchannel of KEET
Subchannel Res.Tooltip Display resolution Short name Programming
13.1 1080iKEET HDPBS

Analog-to-digital conversion

KEET shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 13, on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 11, using virtual channel 13.

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References

  1. ↑ "FCC History Cards for KEET".
  2. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KEET". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ↑ FCC License Information
  4. ↑ "No More PBS Kids: KEET-TV Whittles Itself Down to One Single Broadcast Channel in Effort to Stay Alive". Lost Coast Outpost. Retrieved September 21, 2025.
  5. ↑ "KEET-TV now one channel". Mad River Union. September 25, 2025. Retrieved August 18, 2026.
  6. 1 2 "'It's Just Gone': GOP Funding Cuts for Public Media Pose Existential Threat to KEET-TV, Station's GM Says". Lost Coast Outpost. July 18, 2025. Retrieved August 18, 2026.
  7. ↑ "RabbitEars TV Query for KEET". RabbitEars. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
  8. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.