KUAT-TV

KUAT-TV and KUAS-TV
Channels for KUAT-TV
Channels for KUAS-TV
BrandingPBS 6; AZPM
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
  • KUAT-TV: March 8, 1959 (1959-03-08)
  • KUAS-TV: July 22, 1988 (1988-07-22)
Former call signs
  • KUAT-TV: KUAT (1959–1967)
Former channel numbers
  • KUAT-TV: Analog: 6 (VHF, 1959–2009)
  • KUAS-TV: Analog: 27 (UHF, 1988–2009)
  • KUAT-TV:
  • KUAS-TV:
    • V-me (27.2, 2007–2011)
    • Create (27.3, until 2011)
Call sign meaning
  • KUAT-TV: University of Arizona Television
  • KUAS-TV: KUAT Secondary
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID
  • KUAT-TV: 2731
  • KUAS-TV: 2722
ERP
  • KUAT-TV: 667.5 kW
  • KUAS-TV: 50 kW
HAAT
  • KUAT-TV: 1,092.1 m (3,583 ft)
  • KUAS-TV: 177.9 m (584 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
Translator(s)K20GG-D Duncan
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.azpm.org

KUAT-TV (channel 6) is a PBS member television station in Tucson, Arizona, United States. It is the television station of the University of Arizona (UA) and broadcasts from studios in the Modern Languages Building on the UA campus. Two high-power transmitters broadcast its programming: KUAT-TV itself on Mount Bigelow and KUAS-TV (channel 27) on Tumamoc Hill, west of downtown Tucson, which provides coverage to northwest Tucson and communities west of Mount Lemmon that are shielded from the Mount Bigelow transmitter. There is also a translator in Duncan. KUAT-TV and the UA's radio stations, KUAT-FM and KUAZ, are grouped under the unified brand of Arizona Public Media (AZPM).

KUAT-TV is the oldest public television station in the state, beginning broadcasts in 1959. In addition to airing national PBS and public television programming, it produces several local shows focusing on southern Arizona life and issues.