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| Channels | |
| Branding | KSMQ Public TV |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | KSMQ Public Service Media, Inc. |
| History | |
First air date | October 17, 1972 |
Former call signs | KAVT-TV (1972–1984) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 15 (UHF, 1972–2009) |
Call sign meaning | Southern Minnesota Quality |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 28510 |
| ERP | 319.2 kW |
| HAAT | 302.7 m (993 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°38′34″N 92°31′36″W / 43.64278°N 92.52667°W |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
KSMQ-TV (channel 15) is a PBS member television station in Austin, Minnesota, United States, serving the Rochester–Austin, Minnesota, metropolitan area. The station is locally owned by KSMQ Public Service Media, Inc. KSMQ-TV's studios are located on West Oakland Avenue in Austin, and its transmitter is located in rural east-central Mower County, northwest of Ostrander.
Channel 15 went on the air as KAVT-TV in 1972. It was built as part of the Austin schools' vocational-technical training program, a predecessor to what is now Riverland Community College, and provided public television programming to Austin and its immediate environs. In 1980, it began regional expansion to the rest of southern Minnesota; with a profusion of cable systems adding the station on different channel numbers, it changed its call sign to KSMQ-TV in 1984. The Austin school system spun KSMQ-TV off in 2004 to a community licensee composed of local organizations, the Austin school board, Riverland Community College, and the cities of Austin and Albert Lea. The station relocated from the Riverland campus to downtown Austin in 2022.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KSMQ-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.