WKMJ-TV (channel 68) is a PBS member television station in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It is the flagship station for KET2, the second television service of Kentucky Educational Television (KET), which is owned by the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television. KET2 originates from KET's main studios at the O. Leonard Press Telecommunications Center on Cooper Drive in Lexington; in Louisville, KET has offices and production studios in the American Life Building at 471 West Main Street.[1] Its transmitter tower is near Floyds Knobs, Indiana.
History
As KET's original Louisville station
When Kentucky Educational Television began broadcasting in 1968, it was built to provide the widest statewide coverage with the fewest transmitters possible.[2] Network officials expected that the transmitters in Elizabethtown (WKZT-TV, channel 23) and Owenton (WKON-TV, channel 54) would provide sufficient service in the Louisville area. Reception, however, was poorer than expected, prompting KET in March 1969 to announce plans to file for UHF channel 68 and strike a deal with