Who We Are
TPT IS YOUR LOCAL PBS STATION
TPT is one of the preeminent PBS affiliate stations in the country, producing and broadcasting public media programming in the Twin Cities and its surrounding areas.
TPT believes that media is profoundly powerful – shaping how people and communities understand themselves, each other and the world in which we live.
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1955What is now Twin Cities PBS is incorporated as Twin City Area Educational Television -
September 16, 1957KTCA (channel 2) begins broadcasting as the first non-commercial public television station in Minnesota from a WWII-era wooden structure on the University of Minnesota Agricultural Campus -
May 5, 1965A second station, KTCI (channel 17), is launched -
1967KTCA becomes the first educational station in the nation to broadcast in color -
1970Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) founded; KTCA becomes a member station -
1984“Almanac” premieres on KTCA -
1989KTCA moves to Lowertown, St. Paul and into the building that we now occupy -
1994Iconic documentary, “Hoop Dreams” is produced by KTCA -
2000KTCA officially becomes Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) -
2003TPT becomes the first broadcaster in Minnesota (commercial or public) to launch a television channel (TPT HD) fully devoted to high-definition programming -
2005TPT launches the statewide MN Channel public television service -
2010TPT begins capital campaign for strategic station initiatives and building remodel -
2012TPT launches national website, Next Avenue, “where grown-ups keep growing.” The site annually attracts 9 million+ readers. -
2015TPT’s Lowertown studios undergo a major renovation and Twin Cities Public Television becomes Twin Cities PBS (TPT)
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