KNME-TV (channel 5), branded New Mexico PBS or NM PBS, is a PBS member television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. Jointly owned by the University of New Mexico and Albuquerque Public Schools, it is a sister station to Santa Fe–licensed KNMD-TV (channel 5). The two stations share studios on UNM's North Campus on University Boulevard Northeast in Albuquerque; KNME-TV's transmitter is located atop Sandia Crest.

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KNME-TV

Albuquerque–Santa Fe, New Mexico United States
City	Albuquerque, New Mexico
Channels	Digital: 35 (UHF) Virtual: 5
Branding	NM PBS
Programming
Affiliations	5.1: PBS for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	University of New Mexico Albuquerque Public Schools (The Regents of the University of New Mexico & the Board of Education of the City of Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Sister stations	KNMD-TV
History
First air date	May 1, 1958 (65 years ago) (1958-05-01)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 5 (VHF, 1958–2009)
Former affiliations	NET (1958–1970)
Call sign meaning	New Mexico Education
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	55528
ERP	250 kW
HAAT	1,287 m (4,222 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	35°12′49.8″N 106°27′3.3″W
Translator(s)	see § Translators
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.newmexicopbs.org

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In 1957, the University of New Mexico Board of Regents and Albuquerque Public Schools reached a deal to jointly file for the channel 5 educational allocation in Albuquerque.^[2] The application was filed with the Federal Communications Commission on July 19 and granted on October 23.^[3] Plans were drawn up to use the new station to beam junior college classes to outlying areas,^[4] while a studio was set up in a converted sorority house on the UNM campus.^[5]

Edith Buchanan's English class was the first program broadcast over KNME-TV on May 1, 1958.^[6] By 1960, the station had expanded from college courses to provide programs for Albuquerque public school students in science and Spanish.^[7] That same year, a Ford Foundation grant enabled the station to purchase its first video tape equipment.^[8] In 1969, KNME began live coverage of the New Mexico state legislature.^[8]

New Mexico PBS produces several television programs, including:

• ¡Colores! – a weekly art series with stories devoted to the creative spirit.
• New Mexico in Focus – a weekly, prime-time news magazine show covering the events, issues, and people that are shaping life in New Mexico and the Southwest.
• Public Square – community engagement through meaningful dialogue.

Local programs have also included reports leading up to and after the New Mexico State Penitentiary riot and the Peabody Award-winning series Surviving Columbus on the Pueblo Indians (1992).^[8]

KNME also operates the satellite service WestLink, which shares programming with other public television stations and several commercial clients. Satellite interviews from New Mexico on news networks like CNN often originate at New Mexico PBS. Shows distributed on WestLink include Democracy Now! and Creative Living with Sheryl Borden.^[8]

From 1995 to 2010, KNME operated TALNET (an acronym for "Teach and Learn Network"), an educational cable channel for Albuquerque. It broadcast a mix of PBS and Annenberg Media programming and local school board meetings on Comcast cable channel 96 in Albuquerque.