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| City | Richland, Washington |
| Channels | |
| Branding | Northwest Public Broadcasting |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Washington State University |
| KWWS, KFAE-FM | |
| History | |
First air date | October 18, 1987 |
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Call sign meaning | "Television Northwest" |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 71023 |
| ERP | 55 kW |
| HAAT | 369 m (1,211 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 46°6′12.8″N 119°7′44.6″W / 46.103556°N 119.129056°W |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Website | www |
KTNW (channel 31) is a PBS member television station in Richland, Washington, United States, serving the Tri-Cities area. The station is owned by Washington State University (WSU) and is part of its Northwest Public Broadcasting group of radio and television services. KTNW's studios are located on the WSU Tri-Cities campus in Richland, and its transmitter is located on Jump Off Joe Butte. Master control and most internal operations are based at the studios of sister station KWSU-TV (channel 10) in the Murrow Communications Center on WSU's main campus in Pullman.
WSU has broadcast public television to the Tri-Cities since 1968, though it was not until 1987 that a full-power station was erected to serve the region.
The station serves the eastern portion of the Yakima–Tri-Cities market; the western portion is served by KYVE in Yakima, a satellite of KCTS-TV in Seattle. It is carried on the Yakima–Tri-Cities DirecTV and Dish Network feeds.