About Basin PBS

Mission

It is Basin PBS's mission to see that telecommunication and broadcast media are used to advance education, culture and community throughout our Permian Basin home.

Quiz Show Staff

Basin PBS serves the Permian Basin with programming and services of the highest quality. We use media to inform, inspire, entertain, educate and express a diversity of perspectives. As a trusted, locally-owned, non-profit community resource, Basin PBS empowers West Texans to achieve their potential and strengthens the social, democratic and cultural health of the Permian Basin.

Vision

Basin PBS will touch the lives of West Texans by advancing their ability to learn and succeed. Basin PBS will be the most trusted, valued and supported media organization in the Permian Basin.

Values

Celebrating Proud Heritage 2007. From left: Pat Canty; Daphne Dowdy, George Coombes, Alice Coombes. Earle Craig, Jr., Earl Rodman Jr., Jane Wolf.

Trust is the foundation of Basin PBS and PBS. We are valued for our integrity, independence and investment in the Permian Basin community we call home.

We take pride in delivering the gold standard for high-quality content.

Serving the public is at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to making a difference in people's lives and in the Permian Basin.

We respect our audience's intelligence and ability to draw their own conclusions.

We celebrate cultural differences and embrace diverse perspectives.

Jane Wolf with Pool Webb and filmmaker Ken Burns

We are committed to the education of West Texans, with a special emphasis on the development of young children.

We do all of this under the guidance of a community board made up of local volunteers who feel as strongly about the value of public television as you do. These volunteers created Permian Basin Public Telecommunications, Incorporated in 2005 specifically to build public television into a broadcast and community service leader for the Permian Basin.

Basin PBS Board of Directors

Pat Canty, Board Chair
Jane Wolf, Vice-Chair
Frank Deaderick, Treasurer
Len Wilson, Secretary
Keith Graumann, PhD
John James
Janet Lawrence
Cynthia Maes
Nalin Tolia, MD
David Wedel

Agenda
Board Minutes

Basin PBS Facts

Basin PBS is the only public television station serving the Permian Basin community.
Basin PBS broadcasts to more than 300,000 viewers and 133,000 households on analog channel 36 and digital channel 38. We are cable channel 13 on most local systems and are carried on the Dish 500 Network and DirecTV.
Communities we reach include: Midland, Odessa, Andrews, Alpine, Big Spring, Crane, Kermit, Monahans, Pecos, Seminole and Stanton.
Basin PBS broadcasts digitally in standard and high-definition TV.
Basin PBS is licensed to our community and operated by an energetic Board of Directors made up of community volunteers. These volunteers created Permian Basin Public Telecommunications, Incorporated in 2005 specifically to build public television into a broadcast and community service leader for the Permian Basin.
Our call letters may be new, but KPBT- Basin PBS has informed, inspired and entertained West Texans for 20 years. We signed on the air as KOCV in 1986 with the support of more than 500 charter members, among them....First Lady Laura Bush.
PBS is number one in public trust. For the fourth year in a row, Americans call PBS the most trusted national institution, more trusted than courts of law. *
Americans call PBS the most valuable service taxpayers receive, tied with military defense.*
Basin PBS is made possible by viewers like you through Memberships and Local Corporate Sponsorships as well as Local Grants and Federal Grants. Become a Member. Become a Sponsor.
Our Members and Sponsors help ensure Basin's mission to see that television is used to provide quality programs and services which advance education, culture and community.
Basin PBS offers quality, viewer-oriented programming without commercial interruption. We are safe viewing for children.
Basin PBS supports the Permian Basin community through local programming and educational outreach programs which encourage families to read and learn together. Basin PBS is...The Proud Heritage Series. QUIZ SHOW. Texas Monthly Talks. Charlie Rose. Tavis Smiley. Antiques Roadshow. American Experience. NATURE. NOVA. Masterpiece Theatre. Mystery! The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Austin City Limits. Sesame Street. Lawrence Welk. American Masters. Julia Child. WordGirl. Bill Moyers Journal.

*Source: 2007 Roper Poll

Basin PBS and You

Biscuit Brothers Concert. Staff with Buford and Dusty Biscuit.

Basin PBS is non-profit community-owned and community-run public television.

Basin PBS is actually far more than television. We don't think of ourselves as being in the business of television. Our business is really about ideas, learning, arts and culture, and citizenship. Television is simply the means by which we deliver these resources to you, our neighbors.

Television is a powerful instrument that can be used for good or ill. It can raise the level of discourse in our society, but it can also degrade it. It can broaden our horizons, but it can also narrow our worldview. It can bring us together, or leave us isolated and self-absorbed.

At Basin PBS, we work each day to put television to good use for the benefit of everyone in our region.

Proud Heritage honoree, Alice Coombes, with John James

As a public service, we profit by improving the community on which we depend for support. We succeed to the extent that our children learn, our viewers become engaged in matters that concern them, and those within our communities join together in a common cause.

For children, we are a story teller and teacher. For families, we are the channel they trust—a valued friend that shares their values. For adults, we are a source of childlike wonder and lifetime learning.

We are an integral part of the Permian Basin community. The professionals and volunteers who work to make Basin PBS possible are people who live alongside you. Your neighborhoods, schools, churches, parks, and community institutions are also the places where we live, study, worship, and play.

Basin PBS is not just public television, but quite literally the public's television, a community resource that is dedicated to serving everyone through our quality television programs, our educational services, our outreach projects, and our involvement in the community.

Basin PBS as a Friend to Children

Basin PBS helps develop the potential of our youngest West Texans

Of all the services we provide to our community, nothing surpasses Basin PBS's commitment to its youngest viewers. Basin PBS recognizes the extraordinary influence television has on young minds and the responsibility we assume whenever they spend time with us.

We direct significant resources to children; not just toward producing programs for them, but toward research that helps us understand how they learn. We develop learning tools that we present off-air and even train parents how to limit television viewing.

We are now well into our second generation of helping to develop the intellectual, emotional, and social potential of our youngest viewers. From Mister Rogers to Clifford, from Curious George to WordGirl and more, our children's programs are the most honored and respected on television; sweeping the Emmy Awards children's category year after year.

Of even greater significance, Basin PBS is the channel most trusted by parents and families.

Our special mission to children goes far beyond television. Basin PBS brings children and families the special initiative, What's the Word on the Street?, a series of local active learning events designed to get West Texas children and families excited about reading and learning. This project centers around reading about something, like the letter, doing an activity like making a letter out of playdough and watching a program that brings the letter to life. This project is supported by a full day of non-violent, commercial-free, educational children's television programs such as Sesame Street, Dragon Tales, and Super Why!

Basin PBS also provides workshops for parents, childcare providers and other early childhood professionals, as well as the distribution of children's books and PBS Families/PBS para la Familia magazine. We also air special programming for caregivers including A Place of our Own and its Spanish language counterpart Los Ninos En Su Casa.

Your investment in Basin PBS is an investment in the Permian Basin's children, and in their future.