Wyoming PBS is the statewide public television network licensed to Central Wyoming College in Riverton, reaching about 95 percent of Wyoming through three full-power transmitters and dozens of translators with PBS, Create, PBS Kids and local programs.
Wyoming PBS is Wyoming's statewide public television network, licensed to Central Wyoming College and based on the college's campus in Riverton. The original station, KCWC-TV in Lander, signed on in May 1983, making Wyoming one of the last states to gain public television; full-power stations in Laramie (KWYP, 2004) and Casper (KPTW, 2007) followed, and the network took the Wyoming PBS name in 2008. Its mission is to connect and enrich Wyoming lives through innovative media.
Three transmitters and a network of about 49 low-power translators on mountaintops across the state deliver three channels around the clock, PBS, Create and PBS Kids, to roughly 95 percent of Wyoming's population, along with distance learning services. Local productions include Wyoming Chronicle, Capitol Outlook, Farm to Fork Wyoming, Nature WY, Our Wyoming, A State of Mind, Story Time with Wyoming Authors and Wyoming History, and the station streams live coverage of the Wyoming Legislature.
Wyoming PBS's staff work in content production, engineering and operations, education, membership, events and pledge, and administration, led by chief executive officer Joanna Kail. Because the license sits with Central Wyoming College, station positions and those of the independent Wyoming PBS Foundation are posted on the college's job board and hired through CWC Human Resources, with college benefits.
