PBS Kansas, KPTS channel 8, is the community-licensed PBS member station for Wichita and central Kansas, operated by Kansas Public Telecommunications Service, Inc. from studios in northeast Wichita since 1970.
PBS Kansas is the PBS member station for Wichita and central Kansas. Licensed to Hutchinson as KPTS, channel 8, it first aired on January 5, 1970. The station is operated by Kansas Public Telecommunications Service, Inc., a nonprofit educational organization chartered in 1965 as the Sunflower Educational Television Corporation and reorganized under its present name in 1978. Its studios are on East 32nd Street in northeast Wichita.
The station broadcasts PBS on channel 8.1 with Explore, Create and PBS Kids 24/7 subchannels, reaching a viewing area with a combined population of more than 600,000 across the Wichita metro and surrounding communities. Alongside national programming it produces local shows, documentaries and interview programs, and it runs an education center with PBS Kids resources for families.
PBS Kansas has about 29 full-time employees in production, broadcasting, membership and development, education and administration. Openings are posted on its job openings page, and applications go to the station's general inbox.
