History
Louisiana was one of the first states in the Deep South with a noncommercial educational station within its borders when WYES-TV signed on from New Orleans in 1958. However, the rest of the state was without a clear signal from a National Educational Television or PBS station, even though an Educational Television Commission was briefly formed in the 1950s. LSU professor Lucille Woodward was the driving force to bring public television to the rest of the state from the 1950s onward.Finally, on September 6, 1975; WLPB-TV in Baton Rouge signed on as the state's first PBS station outside New Orleans. From 1976 to 1983, five more stations signed on, extending LPB's signal to portions of Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas.
LPB's flagship news program is Louisiana: The State We're In, which has aired since 1976.
Among the original programs it has produced is Evangeline, which was broadcast by PBS stations throughout the United States and Canada in 2000.
Hurricane coverage
During coverage of major hurricanes affecting the state (as has happened with Hurricanes Katrina and Gustav), LPB's Baton Rouge facilities are used by New Orleans CBS affiliate WWL-TV (Channel 4) as a backup studio to provide additional news coverage from the station inland, and act as the station's main set should WWL be unable to broadcast from their Rampart Street facilities in New Orleans. As part of this agreement, WWL's coverage airs across the entire LPB network to provide a statewide conduit for news and information from a well-established news organization.Stations
| Station | City of license | Channels (Analog/ Digital) | First air date | Call letters’ meaning | ERP (Analog/ Digital) | HAAT (Analog/ Digital) | Facility ID | Transmitter Coordinates |
| WLPB-TV | Baton Rouge | 27 (UHF) 25 (UHF) | September 6, 1975 | Louisiana Public Broadcasting | 2570 kW 200 kW | 303 m 295 m | 38586 | |
| KLTM-TV | Monroe | 13 (VHF) 19 (UHF) | September 8, 1976 | Louisiana Television Monroe | 316 kW 6.7 kW | 544 m 153.8 m | 38589 | (analog) (digital) |
| KLTS-TV | Shreveport | 24 (UHF) 25 (UHF) | August 9, 1978 | Louisiana Television Shreveport | 1620 kW 57 kW | 326 m 258 m | 38591 | |
| KLPB-TV | Lafayette | 24 (UHF) 23 (UHF) | May 19811 | Louisiana Public Broadcasting | 2090 kW 50 kW | 369 m 463.2 m | 38588 | (analog) (digital) |
| KLTL-TV | Lake Charles | 18 (UHF) 20 (UHF) | May 5, 1981 | Louisiana Television Lake Charles | 1260 kW 55 kW | 314 m 299.1 m | 38587 | (analog) (digital) |
| KLPA-TV | Alexandria | 25 (UHF) 26 (UHF) | July 1, 1983 | Louisiana Public Alexandria | 1690 kW 76 kW | 413 m 413 m | 38590 | |
- 1. The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says KLPB-TV signed on May 2, while the Television and Cable Factbook says it signed on May 13.
LPB's digital channels provide three services: LPB, LPB+2, and LPB-HD. LPB+2 mostly shows programming from PBS' Create network.
An additional service, LPB+, now called LPB 2, is currently only available on Cox Cable in Baton Rouge and Lafayette.
In the New Orleans market, WLAE-TV is 50% owned by LPB and carries some LPB programming, mostly news and public affairs. WYES has rights to most PBS programming in prime time in New Orleans.
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