Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET) is a statewide public broadcasting network of radio and television stations in Nebraska and is based in Lincoln. The network is operated by the Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission, which owns the license for all but one station in the network. The license of the network's flagship station, KUON-TV in Lincoln, is owned by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET) is a statewide public broadcasting network of radio and television stations in Nebraska and is based in Lincoln. The network is operated by the Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission, which owns the license for all but one station in the network. The license of the network's flagship station, KUON-TV in Lincoln, is owned by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The network is headquartered in the Terry M. Carpenter Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Center in Lincoln, and also operates a studio in Omaha.
Nebraska was one of the first states in the nation to begin the groundwork for educational broadcasting. The University of Nebraska successfully applied to have channel 18 in Lincoln allocated for educational use in 1951.
In 1954, however, John Fetzer, owner of KOLN-TV, offered to donate his station's old channel location on channel 12 (it had recently moved to channel 10) to NU. This allowed UNL to use more signal at less...
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