While renowned for its quality programs, KTEH is more than just another TV channel. KTEH plays an important role in highlighting and helping solve important problems such as illiteracy, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and more. Through partnerships with grass-roots and educational organizations, KTEH programs combined with outreach and public education campaigns shine a powerful spotlight on today's major problems and help solve them. An Essential Role in Education Programming and teaching materials from public television have become highly valued as classroom resources.
Adults benefit, too.
Bringing the World to Special Audiences Children have long been an important part of KTEH's mission. Public television has been a leader in using technology to better serve all Americans. PBS helped develop the technology for closed-captioning which makes television accessible to the hearing impaired. And in 1990 public television initiated a Descriptive Video Service, which allows more than 11 million blind and low-vision Americans to enjoy a full range of programs through a special narration track on stereo TV sets. The Importance of Corporate Support All of this has been accomplished and is sustained through a unique funding partnership of individuals, corporations, foundations, and the federal and state governments.