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{{Short description|PBS member network in Iowa}}
{{Infobox broadcasting network
| type                = [[Non-commercial educational station|Non-commercial educational]] [[Television network|broadcast television network]]
| branding            = 
| country             = United States
| available           = statewide [[Iowa]]
| founded             = 
| founder             = 
| tvtransmitters      = 9
| headquarters        = 6450 Corporate Drive, [[Johnston, Iowa]]
| owner               = Iowa Public Broadcasting Board
| parent              = 
| key_people          = 
| launch_date         = {{ubl|{{start date and age|1959|4|27}} ''(KDIN-TV)''|{{start date and age|1969}} ''(statewide network launch)''}}
| affiliation         = [[PBS]], [[American Public Television|APT]]
| affiliates          = ''See {{section link||Stations}} and {{section link||Translators}}''
| former_affiliations = [[National Educational Television|NET]] (1959–1970)
| website             = {{URL|http://www.iowapbs.org/}}
| network_name        = Iowa PBS
| network_logo        = Iowa PBS 2020.svg
| network_logo_size   = 200px
| Picture format      = {{ubl|[[480i]] ([[Standard-definition television|SDTV]]) (1959–2009)|[[1080i]] ([[High-definition television|HDTV]]) (2009–present)}}
}}

'''Iowa PBS''', formerly '''Iowa Public Television''' ('''IPTV'''), is a network of Public Broadcasting Service ([[PBS]]) [[List of PBS member stations|member stations]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Iowa]]. It is operated by the '''Iowa Public Broadcasting Board''', an agency of the state education department which holds the licenses for all the PBS member stations in the state. Iowa PBS' headquarters are located at 6450 Corporate Drive in [[Johnston, Iowa]], a suburb of [[Des Moines, Iowa|Des Moines]].

==History==
[[File:Iowa Public Television logo.svg|thumb|right|Logo as "Iowa Public Television" used until 2019]]
Iowa is a pioneer in educational broadcasting; it is home to two of the oldest educational radio broadcast stations in the world, the [[University of Iowa]]'s [[WSUI]] and [[Iowa State University]]'s [[WOI (AM)|WOI]].

The electrical engineering department at the State University of Iowa (SUI) in [[Iowa City, Iowa|Iowa City]] demonstrated television with an exhibit at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on August 28, 1931. J. L. Potter supervised the project. At the conclusion of the Iowa State Fair, the television experiment was set up in the communications laboratory of the electrical engineering building at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

By 1933, the University of Iowa received an FCC license for experimental TV station W9XK, later W9XUI, providing twice a week video programming, with WSUI radio providing the audio channel. By 1939, the FCC allocated TV channels 1 and 12 for W9XUI.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.earlytelevision.org/prewar_stations.html |title=Television stations authorized by the FCC, January 1, 1941 |publisher=RCA Radio Travel-Log |year=1941 |access-date=August 12, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120818042243/http://www.earlytelevision.org/prewar_stations.html |archive-date=August 18, 2012 }}</ref>  This early attempt at educational broadcasting ended by December 1941, with the entrance of the United States into [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://transition.fcc.gov/omd/history/tv/documents/76years_tv.pdf |publisher=FCC |date=Summer 2003 |access-date=July 14, 2012 |title=The FCC: Seventy-Six Years of Watching TV }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.earlytelevision.org/w9xk_history.html |title=A Short History of Television Station W9XK/W9XU |publisher=Early Television Museum |first=Rick|last=Plummer |access-date=July 14, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite web |url=http://www.wartburg.edu/broadcast/Chapter7/Chapter7.html |title=The Untold Story, W9XK - Iowa City |publisher=Wartburg College |access-date=July 14, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100702223008/http://www.wartburg.edu/broadcast/Chapter7/Chapter7.html |archive-date=July 2, 2010 }}</ref>

The University of Iowa later applied for a construction permit for station WSUI-TV on channel 11 in February 1948.<ref>{{cite news |title=Outlook Among [TV] Grantees, CPs, And Applications |url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1948/1948-04-12-BC.pdf |work=Broadcasting-Telecasting |date=April 12, 1948 |page=91}}</ref>

The [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) froze the granting of new television licenses, on September 30, 1948. The FCC, at the time, was swamped with hundreds of requests for licensing. It was creating a problem for allocation and causing interference issues. The FCC wanted time to study the issues and work towards a better overall solution.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Freeze |url=https://jfredmacdonald.com/onutv/freeze.htm |website=jfredmacdonald.com |access-date=7 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090616135329/https://jfredmacdonald.com/onutv/freeze.htm |archive-date=June 16, 2009}}</ref>

The freeze, originally set to last just six months, was extended when the Korean War began. Plus, the issues the FCC was trying to resolve were complicated and many. It ended up taking four years to end the freeze.

The April 14, 1952, FCC "6th Report and Order" effectively lifted the freeze. The decisions had been made on all five dilemmas. In the end, a color standard was chosen, 242 channels were designated for educational non-commercial use, strict rules separated stations sharing channels, channel allocation was resolved with an assignment table, and the entire spectrum of UHF band channels was authorized for use.

In 1951, the university supported the reallocation of channel 11 to [[Des Moines, Iowa|Des Moines]] for an educational television station there.<ref>{{cite news |title=Comments on Proposed [Non-Commercial] Allocations |url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1951/BC-1951-05-14.pdf |work=Broadcasting-Telecasting |date=May 14, 1951 |pages=74–75}}</ref>

Meanwhile, [[Iowa State University]]'s [[WOI-DT|WOI-TV]] in [[Ames, Iowa|Ames]] avoided the 1948 Freeze and began commercial broadcast operations in 1950 and carried some [[National Educational Television]] programming.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1951/di1951-01-25.pdf |title=ISC paid for TV with Federal Funds |publisher=The Daily Iowan |page=1 |date=January 25, 1951 |access-date=August 22, 2013}}</ref> [[Des Moines Public Schools]] applied for the channel 11 allocation and signed on KDPS-TV as the educational station for central Iowa in 1959. However, in the 1960s the only other areas of the state with a clear signal from an educational station were the southwest (from [[Nebraska Public Media|Nebraska ETV]]'s KYNE-TV in [[Omaha, Nebraska|Omaha]]), and the northwest (from [[South Dakota Public Broadcasting|South Dakota ETV]]'s KUSD-TV in [[Vermillion, South Dakota|Vermillion]]).

In 1969, the state of Iowa bought KDPS-TV from the Des Moines Public Schools and changed its calls to KDIN-TV, intending it to be the linchpin of a statewide educational television network. As part of the state's ambition, it rebranded KDIN as the Iowa Educational Broadcasting Network.

The network's second station, KIIN-TV in Iowa City, joined IEBN in 1970 to expand statewide educational programming to eastern Iowa and northwestern [[Illinois]]. Soon afterward, IEBN became a charter member of PBS. By 1977 the newly renamed Iowa Public Broadcasting Network had eight full-power stations. The Iowa Public Television name was adopted in 1982 and began on-air January 1, 1983. In 2003, it purchased KQCT-TV in Davenport, which repeated the programming of [[Quad Cities]] PBS station [[WQPT-TV]] in the Iowa side of the Quad Cities. The calls were changed to KQIN.

IPTV was originally run by the state's General Services Department before [[Governor of Iowa|Governor]] [[Terry Branstad]] signed a bill creating Iowa Public Television as a separate state agency on May 16, 1983. In 1986, IPTV became part of the state's Cultural Affairs Department, and on July 1, 1992, IPTV became part of the Iowa Department of Education.

Combined, the nine Iowa PBS stations reach almost all of Iowa and portions of the surrounding states of Illinois, [[Minnesota]], [[Missouri]], [[Nebraska]], [[South Dakota]], and [[Wisconsin]].

On December 2, 2019, IPTV announced that it would rebrand as Iowa PBS in 2020, in alignment with PBS' new national brand identity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iptv.org/about/iptv-news/iowa-public-television-will-become-iowa-pbs-2020|title=Iowa Public Television will become Iowa PBS in 2020|date=December 2, 2019|website=IPTV|language=en|access-date=December 2, 2019}}</ref>

==Stations==
Nine full-power TV stations make up the network; all stations have callsigns beginning with the letter K, as licensed by the FCC, and ending in IN (standing for Iowa Network). Aside from their transmitters, the network's stations (except KDIN-TV) do not maintain any physical presence in their cities of license.
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{| class="wikitable"
! Station
! [[City of license]]<br />{{small|(other cities served)}}
! [[channel (broadcasting)|Channels]]<br />([[digital terrestrial television|RF]] / [[virtual channel|VC]])
! First air date
! Second letter's meaning
! [[effective radiated power|ERP]]
! [[height above average terrain|HAAT]]
! [[Facility ID]]
! Transmitter coordinates
! Former callsigns
! Public license information
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| {{nowrap|'''KBIN-TV'''}}
| [[Council Bluffs, Iowa|Council Bluffs]]<br />{{small|([[Omaha, Nebraska|Omaha, NE]])}}
| 33 ([[ultra high frequency|UHF]])<br />32 
| {{start date and age|1975|9|7|p=y}}
| Council Bluffs
| 200&nbsp;[[kilowatt|kW]]
| {{convert|98|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| 29108
| {{coord|41|15|15|N|95|50|8|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KBIN-TV}}
| KBIN (1975–1980)
| {{FCC-TV-Station-profile|KBIN|Public file}}<br />{{FCC-LMS-Facility|29108|3=LMS}}
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| {{nowrap|'''KDIN-TV'''}}
| [[Des Moines, Iowa|Des Moines]]
| 11 ([[very high frequency|VHF]])<br />11
| {{start date and age|1959|4|27|p=y}}
| Des Moines
| 22.5&nbsp;kW
| {{convert|600|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| 29102
| {{coord|41|48|33|N|93|36|54|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KDIN-TV}} ([[Alleman, Iowa|Alleman]])
| KDPS-TV (1959–1969)
| {{FCC-TV-Station-profile|KDIN|Public file}}<br />{{FCC-LMS-Facility|29102|3=LMS}}
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| {{nowrap|'''KHIN'''}}
| [[Red Oak, Iowa|Red Oak]]
| 35 (UHF)<br />36
| {{start date and age|1975|9|7|p=y}}
| 
| 600&nbsp;kW
| {{convert|475|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| 29085
| {{coord|41|20|39|N|95|15|22|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KHIN}} ([[Hancock, Iowa|Hancock]])
| KJAA (CP, 1974–1975)<ref>{{Cite web|title=FCC History Cards for KHIN|url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=82846&.pdf|access-date=December 16, 2021|archive-date=December 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211216204018/https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=82846&.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| {{FCC-TV-Station-profile|KHIN|Public file}}<br />{{FCC-LMS-Facility|29085|3=LMS}}
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| {{nowrap|'''KIIN'''}}
| [[Iowa City, Iowa|Iowa City]]<br />{{small|([[Cedar Rapids, Iowa|Cedar Rapids]])}}
| 12 (VHF)<br />12
| {{start date and age|1970|2|8|p=y}}
| Iowa City
| 57&nbsp;kW
| {{convert|439|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| 29095
| {{coord|41|43|15|N|91|20|30|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KIIN}} ([[West Branch, Iowa|West&nbsp;Branch]])
| KIIN-TV (1970–1980)
| {{FCC-TV-Station-profile|KIIN|Public file}}<br />{{FCC-LMS-Facility|29095|3=LMS}}
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| {{nowrap|'''KQIN'''}}
| [[Davenport, Iowa|Davenport]]<br />{{small|([[Bettendorf, Iowa|Bettendorf]]/<br />[[Moline, Illinois|Moline]]–[[Rock Island, Illinois|Rock Island, IL]])}}
| 34 (UHF)<br />36
| {{start date and age|1991|12|16|p=y}}
| Quad Cities
| 199.5&nbsp;kW
| {{convert|233|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| 5471
| {{coord|41|18|44.5|N|90|22|46.2|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KQIN}} ([[Orion, Illinois|Orion,&nbsp;IL]])
| KQCT (1991–2003)
| {{FCC-TV-Station-profile|KQIN|Public file}}<br />{{FCC-LMS-Facility|5471|3=LMS}}
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| {{nowrap|'''KRIN'''}}
| [[Waterloo, Iowa|Waterloo]]
| 35 (UHF)<br />32
| {{start date and age|1974|12|15|p=y}}
| Waterloo
| 250&nbsp;kW
| {{convert|584|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| 29114
| {{coord|42|18|59|N|91|51|31|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KRIN}} ([[Rowley, Iowa|Rowley]])
| KRIN-TV (1/24/1980–11/3/1980)
| {{FCC-TV-Station-profile|KRIN|Public file}}<br />{{FCC-LMS-Facility|29114|3=LMS}}
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| {{nowrap|'''KSIN-TV'''}}
| [[Sioux City, Iowa|Sioux City]]
| 28 (UHF)<br />27
| {{start date and age|1975|1|4|p=y}}
| Sioux City
| 400&nbsp;kW
| {{convert|348.3|m|ft|1|abbr=on}}
| 29096
| {{coord|42|30|53|N|96|18|16|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KSIN-TV}}
| KSIN (1975–1980)
| {{FCC-TV-Station-profile|KSIN|Public file}}<br />{{FCC-LMS-Facility|29096|3=LMS}}
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| {{nowrap|'''KTIN'''}}
| [[Fort Dodge, Iowa|Fort Dodge]]
| 25 (UHF)<br />21
| {{start date and age|1977|4|8|p=y}}
| 
| 600&nbsp;kW
| {{convert|355|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| 29100
| {{coord|42|49|2.7|N|94|24|41.9|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KTIN}} ([[Bradgate, Iowa|Bradgate]])
|
| {{FCC-TV-Station-profile|KTIN|Public file}}<br />{{FCC-LMS-Facility|29100|3=LMS}}
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| {{nowrap|'''KYIN'''}}
| [[Mason City, Iowa|Mason City]]
| 18 (UHF)<br />24
| {{start date and age|1977|5|14|p=y}}
| 
| 533&nbsp;kW
| {{convert|448.5|m|ft|1|abbr=on}}
| 29086
| {{coord|43|28|32|N|92|42|30|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KYIN}} ([[Meyer, Iowa|Meyer]])
|
| {{FCC-TV-Station-profile|KYIN|Public file}}<br />{{FCC-LMS-Facility|29086|3=LMS}}
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
|}

===Translators===
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|29087|3=K18GU-D}}''' [[Ottumwa, Iowa|Ottumwa]] (translating KIIN)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|29097|3=K19KX-D}}''' [[Keokuk, Iowa|Keokuk]] (translating KIIN)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|29091|3=K24IM-D}}''' [[Keosauqua, Iowa|Keosauqua]] (translating KIIN)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|29113|3=K25PE-D}}''' [[Decorah, Iowa|Decorah]] (translating KYIN)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|29084|3=K26JI-D}}''' [[Sibley, Iowa|Sibley]] (translating KSIN-TV)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|29099|3=K28JD-D}}''' [[Fort Madison, Iowa|Fort Madison]] (translating KIIN)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|29112|3=K31NJ-D}}''' [[Lansing, Iowa|Lansing]] (translating KYIN)
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|29092|3=K33PV-D}}''' [[Rock Rapids, Iowa|Rock Rapids]] (translating KSIN-TV)

In 2012, an application was filed for a digital replacement translator to extend coverage of KRIN into Dubuque.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=1495389 |access-date=May 21, 2020|title=Application Search Details|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]}}</ref> The application was withdrawn in October 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076ff392b486300192b58778300350&id=25076ff392b486300192b58778300350&goBack=N|access-date=October 28, 2024|title=Withdrawal of New Digital Replacement Translator Construction Permit Application|work=Licensing and Management System|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]}}</ref>

==Digital television==
===Subchannels===
The signals of the Iowa PBS stations are multiplexed:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KDIN-TV<ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KDIN#station RabbitEars TV Query for KDIN]</ref>
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 11.1
| [[1080i]]
| rowspan="4" | [[16:9]]
| rowspan="4" | IowaPBS
| [[PBS]] 
|-
! scope = "row" | 11.2
| [[720p]]
| [[PBS Kids]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 11.3
| rowspan="2" | [[480i]]
| [[World Channel|World]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 11.4
| [[Create (TV network)|Create]]
|- style="background-color:#DFEBF6; border-top: 2px solid #003399;"
! scope = "row" | [[KDSM-TV|17.2]] 
| rowspan=2|480i || rowspan=2|16:9 || Comet || [[Comet (TV network)|Comet]] ([[KDSM-TV]])
|- style="background-color:#DFEBF6;"
! scope = "row" | [[KDSM-TV|17.3]] 
| Charge! || [[Charge! (TV network)|Charge!]] ([[KDSM-TV]])
|}
{{legend|#DFEBF6|Broadcast on behalf of another station}}

{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of the other Iowa PBS stations<ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KBIN#station RabbitEars TV Query for KBIN]
*[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KHIN#station RabbitEars TV Query for KHIN]
*[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KIIN#station RabbitEars TV Query for KIIN]
*[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KQIN#station RabbitEars TV Query for KQIN]
*[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KRIN#station RabbitEars TV Query for KRIN]
*[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KSIN#station RabbitEars TV Query for KSIN]
*[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KTIN#station RabbitEars TV Query for KTIN]
*[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KYIN#station RabbitEars TV Query for KYIN]</ref>
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | xx.1
| [[1080i]]
| rowspan="4" | [[16:9]]
| rowspan="4" | IowaPBS
| [[PBS]] 
|-
! scope = "row" | xx.2
| [[720p]]
| [[PBS Kids]]
|-
! scope = "row" | xx.3
| rowspan="2" | [[480i]]
| [[World Channel|World]]
|-
! scope = "row" | xx.4
| [[Create (TV network)|Create]]
|}

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
Iowa PBS (as IPTV) shut down its stations' analog signals on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States [[Digital television transition in the United States|transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts]] under federal mandate. The station's digital channel allocations post-transition are as follows:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |access-date=March 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 }}</ref>
* KBIN-TV shut down its analog signal, over [[Ultra high frequency|UHF]] channel 32; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 33, using [[virtual channel]] 32.
* KDIN-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 11; the station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 50 to VHF channel 11.
* KHIN shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 36; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 35, using virtual channel 36.
* KIIN shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 12; the station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 45 to VHF channel 12.
* KQIN shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 36; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 34, using virtual channel 36.
* KRIN shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 32; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 35, using virtual channel 32.
* KSIN-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 27; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 28, using virtual channel 27.
* KTIN shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 21; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 25, using virtual channel 21.
* KYIN shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 24; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 18, using virtual channel 24.

===Late night programming===
Starting August 31, 2013, Iowa PBS (as IPTV) had gone off-the-air nightly from midnight to 5 a.m. over-the-air due to budget concerns, reduced from a 24-hour schedule. [[Mediacom]] continued to carry the network in their markets with 24-hour programming due to their direct fiber connection from IPTV in Johnston to their Des Moines [[Cable television headend|headend]], which distributes the four IPTV channels statewide. The national satellite services carry the network's primary HD channel (IPTV.1) and have a fiber connection so the channel was available 24/7 to their subscribers. At the present time, they do not carry the three subchannels.

The network restored over-the-air 24-hour service on January 15, 2019; late night programming mainly consists of the national PBS schedule.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iptv.org/schedule.cfm |title=IPTV Schedule |publisher=IPTV |access-date=August 31, 2013}}</ref>

==Programming==
Although Iowa PBS provides PBS programming and also coordinates several political debates during the [[Iowa Caucuses]], it also produces original programs, such as:
* ''Crafts from the Past'', a crafting show.
* ''Fair'', live show from the [[Iowa State Fair]] every year.
* ''Gardening with Steil'', a gardening show hosted by Aaron Steil.
* ''Greetings from Iowa'', a lifestyle show.
* ''Historic Buildings of Iowa'', a historical documentary show.
* ''In Their Words'', featuring the youth of Iowa.
* ''Iowa Ingredient'', a cooking show.
* ''Iowa Life'', a human interest, magazine-style show.
* ''Iowa PBS Sports'', a series of [[High school sports|high school]] girls' championship events sanctioned by the [[Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union|IGHSAU]] including [[basketball]], [[bowling]], [[cross country running|cross country]], [[golf]], [[association football|soccer]], [[softball]], [[swimming (sport)|swimming]] and [[Diving (sport)|diving]], [[tennis]], [[track and field]], and [[volleyball]].
* ''Iowa Press'', a political panel discussion show.
* ''Market to Market'', a nationally distributed show about [[agribusiness]].
* ''Road Trip Iowa'', a travel documentary show.
* ''Studio 3 LIVE'', a live music show.
* ''The Film Lounge'', showcases short films.
* ''The Great American Recipe'', a cooking competition show.
* ''Woodsmith Shop'', a woodworking show.

Iowa PBS first began airing ''[[Doctor Who]]'' in 1974, shortly after the [[BBC]] first made it available to PBS stations via [[Time-Life Television]]. With the exception of a hiatus between 1979 and 1984, the station has aired the serial continuously since, one of the longest ''Doctor Who'' runs in the world.<ref>{{Cite web |date=5 September 2014 |title=Why does Iowa like Doctor Who so much? |first=Lea A |last=Donovan |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/09/why-does-iowa-doctor-who-so-much |access-date=2025-11-23 |website=New Statesman |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Friends of Iowa PBS==
In 1970, '''Friends of Iowa Public Television''' (Iowa Public Television Foundation Board) was created for the development, growth and support of Iowa PBS through the building of a strong statewide membership base. Its 65,000 member households across Iowa and bordering states contribute nearly 90% of the out-of-pocket costs for acquiring and producing general audience programming.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iptv.org/friends/ |title=Friends of Iowa Public Television Foundation |access-date=August 30, 2013 |publisher=IPTV}}</ref> When IPTV rebranded as Iowa PBS in December 2019, Friends of Iowa Public Television changed its name to '''Friends of Iowa PBS'''.

==References==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060421170632/http://www.iptv.org/about_company_history.cfm IPTV History] from the Iowa Public Television web site, accessed April 1, 2006
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==External links==
*[http://www.iowapbs.org Iowa PBS' official website]

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