KTNW
KTNW (channel 31) is a PBS member television station in Richland, Washington, United States, serving the Tri-Cities area. The station is owned by Washington State University (WSU) and is part of its Northwest Public Broadcasting group of radio and television services. KTNW's studios are located on the WSU Tri-Cities campus in Richland, and its transmitter is located on Jump Off Joe Butte. Master control and most internal operations are based at the studios of sister station KWSU-TV (channel 10) in the Murrow Communications Center on WSU's main campus in Pullman. WSU has broadcast public television to the Tri-Cities since 1968, though it was not until 1987 that a full-power station was erected to serve the region. The station serves the eastern portion of the Yakima/Tri-Cities market; the western portion is served by KYVE in Yakima, a satellite of KCTS-TV in Seattle. It is carried on the Yakima/Tri-Cities DirecTV and Dish Network feeds. History Except for local cable viewers, who received KCTS-TV from Seattle, the Tri-Cities area was unserved by educational television, though plans first emerged for a translator service in 1962. To fill the gap, in March 1966, WSU applied for a translator of KWSC-TV, its educational station in Pullman,