KAWE is a television station

Television station

A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...

 in Bemidji, Minnesota

Bemidji, Minnesota

Bemidji is a city in Beltrami County, Minnesota, United States. Its population was at 13,431 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Beltrami County. Bemidji is the most major city in North Central Minnesota and the largest commercial center between Grand Forks, North Dakota and Duluth,...

, broadcasting locally on channel 9 as a PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

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 member station. KAWE first took the air on June 1, 1980. The station also has a satellite station in Brainerd, Minnesota

Brainerd, Minnesota

Brainerd is a city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 13,590 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Crow Wing County and one of the largest cities in Central Minnesota...

, KAWB channel 22 and rebroadcast on translator K42CU in Roseau, Minnesota

Roseau, Minnesota

As of the census of 2000, there were 2,756 people, 1,157 households, and 713 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,153.6 people per square mile . There were 1,229 housing units at an average density of 514.4 per square mile...

. The stations brand together as Lakeland Public Television.

KAWE is the only full-power station based in northern Minnesota, an area that is served mainly by translators of the Minneapolis/St. Paul stations. It also airs the only local newscast in northern Minnesota.

KAWE is carried on channel 22 on DirecTV

DirecTV

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 and Dish Network

Dish Network

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's Twin Cities feeds (which is KAWB's broadcast channel number) because KMSP-TV

KMSP-TV

KMSP-TV, channel 9, is the Fox-owned-and-operated television station serving the Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota designated market area, owned in a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate WFTC...

 of Minneapolis also broadcasts on channel 9.

Digital channels

Lakeland Digital - Main channel.

Lakeland High Definition - provides high definition programming

Lakeland Kids - a 24 hour channel devoted to children’s programming.

Lakeland Create - provides educational and "how to" programming.

Lakeland Plus - The best of Lakeland Public Television’s prime time series plus additional programming

Lakeland MN - MN Legislative coverage plus Lakeland News features and continuing education programming.

External links

• Lakeland Public Television