 ketc, virtual channel 9 (uhf digital channel 39), is a pbs member television station located in st. louis, missouri, united states. the station is owned by st. louis regional public media. ketc maintains studio facilities located at the dana brown communications center on olive street in st. louis' grand center neighborhood, and its transmitter is located in fenton. ==history== 225px|thumb||left|ketc building. the station first signed on the air on september 20, 1954, the call letters ketc represent the st. louis educational television comission, the former name of the organization responsible for bringing public television to st. louis. it was the first community-licensed educational television station in the united states. the station's first general manager was shelby storck, who also emceed the station's first evening of broadcasting. ketc originally broadcast from the julius and freda baer memorial building on the campus of washington university in st. louis, the first facility specifically built for an educational television station, with transmitting facilities atop the former boatman's bank building (now the marquette building) in downtown st. louis. in 1998, the station moved its studios from the washington university campus to the dana brown communications center in the grand center district. during the 2004 elections, ketc partnered with area nbc affiliate ksdk (channel 5), to provide st. louisans with comprehensive and up-to-date local and national election results. this partnership was first utilized to simulcast a g
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