WKZT-TV is one of several affiliate TV stations of the Kentucky Educational Television network, a member of the Public Broadcasting Service.
WKZT-TV broadcasts KET programming from its transmitter site along the I-65 north of downtown Elizabethtown KY.
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"Kentucky Educational Television (branded on-air as KET: The Kentucky Network or simply KET) is a state network of PBS member television stations serving the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. It is operated by the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television, an agency of the Kentucky state government which holds the licenses for almost all of the PBS member stations licensed in the state, with the exception of WKYU-TV (channel 24) in Bowling Green. KET is the largest PBS state network in the United States; the broadcast signals of its sixteen stations cover almost all of the state, as well as parts of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
The network's offices, network center and primary studio facilities are located at the O. Leonard Press Telecommunications Center on Cooper Drive in Lexington, adjacent to the campus of the University of Kentucky (KET has no other direct affiliation with the university). KET also has production centers in Louisville as well as at the Kentucky State Capitol Annex in Frankfort. KET carries national programming from PBS and American Public Television along with a wide range of local programming, basic skills and workplace education.
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Stations
KET, available to all cable subscribers in Kentucky, broadcasts locally produced cultural and public information programs about the state, programs produced by independent Kentucky filmmakers, prime time programming from PBS, PBS Kids series, and GED, how-to and adult education programs.
As it is one of a few PBS member state networks encompassing two time zones, KET's programming operates on an Eastern Time Zone schedule; in promos, online guides on the network's website and print advertisements, airtimes within the Central Time Zone (which covers the western part of the state) are identified secondarily, in the manner of the "Eastern/Central" scheduling references used by many national broadcast and cable networks. Most of the KET stations have callsigns beginning with "WK", with the exception of Covington-licensed WCVN-TV.
Stations List (name - city - channels - first air date - transmitter coordinates)
WKAS-TV - Ashland KY - 36 - September 23, 1968 - 38°27'43.7"N 82°37'11.8"W
WKGB-TV1 - Bowling Green - 29 - September 23, 1968 - 37°5'22.7"N 86°38'5"W
WCVN-TV2 - Covington - 22 - September 8, 1969 - 39°1'50.6"N 84°30'23"W
WKZT-TV3 - Elizabethtown - 23 - September 23, 1968 - 37°40'55.2"N 85°50'31.2"W WKHA-TV- Hazard - 33 - 1968 - 37°11'34.2"N 83°11'17.4"W
WKLE-TV - Lexington - 46 - September 23, 1968 - 37°52'45"N 84°19'32.8"W
WKPC-TV4 - Louisville -30 - September 8, 1958 - 38°22'1.6"N 85°49'53.8"W
WKMA-TV5 - Madisonville - 31 - September 23, 1968 - 37°11'21.3"N 87°30'49"W
WKMR-TV - Morehead- 30 - September 23, 1968 - 38°10'38.3"N 83°24'17.2"W
WKMU-TV - Murray - 17 - October 7, 1968 (53 years ago) - 36°41'34.2"N 88°32'10.6"W
WKOH-TV - Owensboro - 17 - February 14, 1980 - 37°51'7"N 87°19'44"W
WKON-TV - Owenton - 24 - September 23, 1968 - 38°31'31.5"N 84°48'39.4"W
WKPD-TV6 - Paducah - 23 - May 31, 1971 - 37°5'39.7"N 88°40'20"W
WKPI-TV7 - Pikeville - 23 - 1968 - 37°17'6.3"N 82°31'28.3"W
WKSO-TV8 - Somerset - 17 - September 23, 1968 - 37°10'2.6"N 84°49'29.8"W
Notes:
Aside from their transmitters, the network's stations (except WKLE-TV and WKPC-TV) do not maintain any physical presence in their cities of license.
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Although the DTV Delay Act extended the mandatory deadline from February 17 to June 12, 2009, KET shut down the analog signals of all 16 Stations on April 16, 2009.
Each stations' post-transition digital allocations are as follows:
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WKZT-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 23; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 43. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 23."