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| In Reno/Sparks you are watching on: | Channel # |
| Over-the-air Broadcast/Antenna | Channel 5 |
| Charter Communications | Channel 5 |
| Direct TV | Channel 5 |
| VCR | Channel 5 |
| USA Media | Channel 15 |
| Dish Network | Channel 9006 |
| Check with your local cable provider for more information... |
In much of the country, a television station has a single transmitter that broadcasts to its entire audience. But in mountainous or sparsely populated areas, a television station usually cannot cover its entire coverage area with just one signal. This is where translators come in. A translator is a miniature television transmitter that supplies a television station's signal to an area that the television station otherwise couldn't cover. In most cases, the translator will be on a different channel than that of the television station which it is carrying. For example, Channel 5 is actually carried by the Channel 25 translator in the Fallon area.
| ID: | Translator Location: | Channel # |
| K42IL | Verdi | Channel 42 |
| K29ES | Carson City | Channel 29 |
| K25AK | Fallon | Channel 25 |
| K18DP | Lovelock | Channel 18 |
| K38EH | Walker Lake | Channel 38 |
| K50AI | Hawthorne | Channel 50 |
| K65CC | Susanville | Channel 65 |
| K39EZ | Mina | Channel 39 |
| K28EI | Austin | Channel 28 |
| K46FB | Reese River | Channel 46 |
| K45EY | Hadley / Round Mountain | Channel 45 |
| K55GR | Fish Lake Valley | Channel 55 |
| K53BG | Winnemucca (Analog Broadcast) | Channel 53 |
| K15AL | Winnemucca (Digital Broadcast) | Channel 15 |
| K15EE | Elko | Channel 15 |
| K16FV | Ryndon | Channel 16 |
| K23FC | Elko / Carlin | Channel 23 |
| K58BR | Wells | Channel 58 |
Check with your local cable provider for more information...
Closed Captioning Issues?
If you are experiencing difficulties with the KNPB closed captioning system, please contact either Tim Stoffel at 775.682.7814 or tim@knpb.org, or Fred Ihlow at 775.682.7791 or fred@knpb.org.
Silver Springs Channel 31 translator changes. — posted June 14, 2010
Beginning on Thursday June 17, 2010, KNPB will be turning off the analog translator K31MB at Silver Springs Nevada. At that time we will replace it with a Digital signal.
Anyone in the Fernley, Fallon, Silver Springs, Yerington, and Dayton who had been receiving KNPB on analog channel 31 will now need to rescan their Converter Box or digital TV in order to receive this new digital signal. It then should be designated as Channels 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 in their display.
At the same time the translator that services Hawthorne and several other communities to the East and South of Hawthorne will also be switched from an analog signal to a digital signal. The same effect as above will come into effect. And the same solution will need to be enacted.
This will be a permanent change for all these communities.