KACV-TV is a public television station in Amarillo, Texas, broadcasting locally on VHF channel 2 as a PBS member station. Founded in 1988, the station is owned by the city's community college, Amarillo College. KACV-TV is operated on Amarillo College's Washington Street campus, along with sister-station KACV-FM. Amarillo was one of the last major cities to get its own PBS station; prior to then, cable viewers in the Texas Panhandle watched PBS either on Dallas' KERA-TV, OETA from Oklahoma, or New Mexico's KENW.
As a PBS member station, KACV-TV provides Texas Panhandle viewers with several PBS television series such as NOVA, American Experience, and Sesame Street. The station also produces local programming such as the weekly talk show, Face to Face. KACV-TV is seen on analog channel 2 and digital channel 8, with extensive coverage on cable and translators throughout the Texas Panhandle.
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
The HD service is also carried on the...
