Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET) is a state network of non-commercial educational public broadcasting radio and television stations in Nebraska and is based in Lincoln. It is operated by the Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission. The television stations are all members of PBS, while the radio stations are members of NPR.
The network is headquartered in the Terry M. Carpenter & Jack G. McBride Nebraska Educational Telecom...
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Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET) is a state network of non-commercial educational public broadcasting radio and television stations in Nebraska and is based in Lincoln. It is operated by the Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission. The television stations are all members of PBS, while the radio stations are members of NPR.
The network is headquartered in the Terry M. Carpenter & Jack G. McBride Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Center in Lincoln, and has a satellite 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 cost. UNL quickly jumped at this proposal, and KUON-TV...
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