KBPT-TV

KBPT-TV is a Public television station in Marfa, Texas, broadcasting locally on digital channel 36 (virtual channel 8) as a PBS member station. The digital sub-channels are PBS HD, PBS SD, and PBS Kids/PBS Encore. The station is owned jointly by Marfa Public Radio Corporation and the Marfa and Presidio Independent School Districts and operated by Big Bend Broadcasting Partners, Inc., a joint consortium between the Tri-County Commission for Education (composed of Alpine, Fort Davis, Marathon, Marfa, Presidio, San Vicente, Terlingua and Valentine Independent School Districts) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The station has studios located in downtown Marfa. It carried its share of PBS, World and Create programs until 2010, when all PBS programming are handed to KBPT. KLPT and KDVS carried programs from both World and Create, respectively as a result of the switch.