Each year, more than 10,000 students earn college credit from a local college by watching Channel 9. In 1996, KETC launched two major initiatives that took the station and its viewers beyond the television screen. That same month, the station moved its broadcast center from South St. Louis County to the Center, unifying the station's broadcast, production and administrative offices for the first time in 27 years. The Dana Brown Communications Center took approximately 18 months to construct. Designed by Rees Associates, one of the nation's premier architecture firms specializing in video facilities, the Center is a two-story facility, with 58,000 square feet.
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This standard is the most sophisticated in the world, and offers KETC the opportunity to develop many new services for our community. In some cases, several different pictures can be transmitted simultaneously. So, in the coming years, KETC will be able to broadcast separate program streams. Our current analog signal will remain available for at least another decade. It has demonstrated its enormous potential value as a means of improving the quality of instruction in our schools, of providing our young people with helpful entertainment, and of bringing to a significant adult audience stimulating and unfettered discussions of public affairs.