Arkansas PBS is a state network of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television stations serving the U.S. state of Arkansas. It is operated by the Arkansas Educational Television Commission, an agency of the state government which holds the licenses for all of the PBS member stations licensed in the state. The broadcast signals of the six stations that are part of the public television network cover almost all of the state, as well as portions of Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana.
Arkansas PBS' offices and network operations are based out of the R. Lee Reaves Center for Educational Telecommunications, located adjacent to the University of Central Arkansas in Conway; its programming is distributed via a thirteen-site microwave interconnection relay system around the state, which covers most of Arkansas, as well as parts of surrounding states.
Approximately two-thirds of Arkansas PBS' funding comes from state tax dollars to support the broadcast infrastructure and all services that are provided for educators and schools. More than 10% comes from the federal government as a partial match of what is raised locally. Almost 20% comes from voluntary contributions from individual viewers and businesses.
2010[]
- January 1 – May 2, 2010
- May 3 – August 31, 2010
- September 1 – September 5, 2010
- September 6, 2010 – January 2, 2011
2011[]
2012[]
- January 1 – February 29, 2012
- March 1 – April 1, 2012
- April 2 – September 2, 2012
- September 3, 2012 – December 31, 2012
2013[]
2014[]
- January 1 – March 2, 2014
- March 3 – May 4, 2014
- May 5 – June 1, 2014
- June 2 – August 31, 2014
- September 1 – November 25, 2014
- November 26, 2014 – November 15, 2015
2015[]
2016[]
- January 18 – February 14, 2016
- February 15 – August 31, 2016
- September 1 – November 22, 2016
- November 23, 2016 – February 5, 2017
2017[]
2018[]
- January 1 – February 18, 2018
- February 19 – February 25, 2018
- February 26 – March 4, 2018
- March 5 – September 30, 2018
- October 1 – November 20, 2018
- November 21, 2018 – July 14, 2019