KELV

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 (channel 8) is a PBS member television station in Las Venturas, San Andreas, United States. Owned by the Clark County School District, it is the flagship outlet of the district's communications arm, the KELV Communications Group.
==History==
In 1964, following the authorization of federal matching grants for the construction of non-commercial educational television facilities, the Clark County School Trustees proposed a state network of educational television stations offering television programming originating in Las Venturas. The proposal was vigorously opposed by educators in other communities, and in 1966, the school trustees gave up the proposal of a statewide service. The Trustees then sought and received Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval to construct a single educational station in Las Venturas. The channel 8 allocation was originally assigned to Grapeseed; KBAN occupied channel 8 from its sign-on in September 1953 until it was moved to channel 23 in the summer of 1963 after the FCC decided to make Grapeseed all-UHF via the deintermixture process.
KELV first signed on the air as Las Venturas' first educational station on March 25, 1968; this made the Las Venturas market one of the smallest market in the nation at the time to have five television stations. Channel 8 originally operated from two converted classrooms located at the Southeastern San Andreas Vocational Technical Center in Las Venturas. Students were involved in all engineering and production operations as part of a vocational training program of the School District.
In September 1968, the station activated four Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS) channels which offered live instructional television programs produced by the station covering foreign language, math and fine arts. Between 1978 and 1996, sixteen other ITFS channels were activated to provide 67,000 hours a year of instructional television programming, career professional development, college courses and staff orientations serving schools in the communities of Las Venturas, Rockshore West, North Las Venturas/Redsands West, Boulder City and Pahrump. In 1971, Charlotte Hill convened a group of community leaders who eventually founded Channel 8 Friends, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation established to raise private support for KELV's non-instructional programs, and encourage community viewing of channel 8. The organization renamed itself Southeastern San Andreas Public Television in 2002 when the group assumed leadership of a $64 million campaign to fund digital television conversion and a new building for the station's studio facilities.
Expansion of KELV's viewing area continued through the 1970s and 1980s throughout Clark and Bone counties with construction of a network of translator stations that repeat KELV's programming for viewers in a two-county, 38,000-square-mile (98,000 km2) service area. Some translators are operated by the station, but others are operated by counties or rural translator districts that rely on voluntary support.
In 2004, KELV became one of the first stations in the United States to demonstrate what digital television has to offer in times of emergency. That demonstration and the follow on technology led to the Digital Emergency Alert System (DEAS). During 2007, using $1.2 million, KELV installed equipment to broadcast DEAS data, including the ability to do so for up to seven days without external power. The grant also covers the installation of digital television data receivers in 120 Clark County School District Police Department vehicles.
In September 2006, KELV rebranded as "Venturas PBS" to reflect its current multiple-channel offerings and diversified multimedia services provided to the Las Venturas metropolitan area and statewide schools, in addition to its regular programming on its main channel. In 2009, KELV moved its operations from the Channel 8 Drive building to the 112,000-square-foot (10,400 m2) Venturas PBS Educational Technology Campus. The new facility houses the KELV studios, the Clark County School District's Virtual High School and Educational Media Center and the Homeland Security and Emergency Response support system. The facility is also one of the first in the United States to meet the Media Security and Reliability Council's guidelines.
==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The station's signal is multiplexed:
Subchannels of KELV
Channel	Res. 	Aspect	Short name	Programming
8.1 	1080i	16:9 	KELV-HD 	PBS
8.2 	480i 	16:9 	Create 	Create
8.3 	480i 	16:9 	PBSKids 	PBS Kids
8.4 	480i 	16:9 	WORLD 	World
KELV also operates two additional services, Venturas PBS Rewind and Venturas PBS Jackpot!, as cable-only channels, in addition to distributing the World Channel in the market in the same manner. As of June 1, 2022, both Venturas PBS Rewind and Venturas PBS Jackpot! have been removed on cable.
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KELV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 8, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 7, using virtual channel 8.
Category:PBS member stations
Category:Las Venturas
Category:San Andreas
Category:Channel 8
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1967