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1274: 1331: 34: 407:, public service announcements and conventional educational programs. Nearly all of the 22 staff employed by the station were Guamanians. The station used a 6-kilowatt transmitter to deliver its terrestrial signal as well as being relayed on cable television, whereas two repeaters had been purchased at the time to boost its coverage towards the 384:
hours of programming Monday through Friday, of which they would later expand throughout its 50-year history, including producing local shows and various projects. Original materials from PBS Guam have been contributed to the
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As of 1993, KGTF produced 30 percent of the output it aired. Such content at the time included a Filipino current affairs program, a competition program for high school students, meetings of the
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KGTF shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 12, on January 23, 2009, approximately five months before the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States
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The station was in financial trouble in 1975, facing problems in raising the percentage of its government funding required by law.
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under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition
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For the airport serving Great Falls, Montana assigned the ICAO code KGTF, see
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PBS Guam received PBS' overhaul branding in late-November 2019.
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Bentley, J.E.; Schultz, A.; Hermanson, Dale (September 1993).
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Last KGTF channel 12 logo, before adopting PBS Guam branding.
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The station signed on the air on October 30, 1970, with only
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Great Falls International Airport

Hagåtña, Guam
Channels
Digital
VHF
Virtual
PBS
Call sign
FCC
Facility ID
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HAAT
13°29′22″N 144°49′46″E / 13.48944°N 144.82944°E / 13.48944; 144.82944
Public file
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pbsguam.org
PBS
television station
Hagåtña, Guam
U.S. territory
territorial government
Mangilao
Guam Community College
Barrigada
American Archive of Public Broadcasting

Guam Legislature
Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands

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