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ULB-TV, virtual channel 14.5 (VHF digital channel 14), is a television station serving Laverne Town in the El Kadsreian territory of Seahaus. It is owned and operated by the Seahaus Educational Television Foundation, a nonprofit organization registered in New Hampshire and Cicmpillici, and is a member station of the United States educational television broadcaster PBS.
ULB-TV is one of only two PBS stations licensed to outside the United States, the other being XHLPBS-TDT, licensed to Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico and serving the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.
History[]
ULB-TV was founded in 1988 after Massachusetts school teacher Lauren Hiaasen visited Seahaus and was inspired to launch an educational TV station there.
At first, due to FCC rules against American networks transmitting their signals to stations located outside the United States, PBS programming was received via C-Band satellite and recorded onto RLV LaserDiscs (and later videotape) at the Worcester State University media center and then physically transported to the studios in Laverne Town, a practice known in the television industry as "bicycling". Despite circumventing ULB's inability to use the PBS national feed, this sometimes meant that viewers would have to wait up to three weeks to see some of PBS' offerings. This also meant that ULB-TV was unable to carry most live events including congressional hearings and A Capitol Fourth.
In 1993, the announcement of the Barney & Friends Family Marathon led to the FCC granting an waiver of the rules to allow ULB to receive live pledge drive segments and live PBS broadcasts via satellite.
By 1995, ULB-TV was broadcasting a full schedule of PBS and APS programs. Programs were either broadcast from Betacam tape recorded off the PBS C-band satellite feeds in the Laverne Town facilities or were broadcast using master tapes sent in by PBS, APS or other PBS member stations.
Programming[]
ULB-TV has been known to clear most PBS programming, however sometimes programming has either been self-censored or not aired at all due to El Kadsreian censorship laws.