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for KTCA-TV (Television station : Saint Paul, Minn.)
Biography"Twin Cities PBS (abbreviated TPT, from the name Twin Cities Public Television used on-air until 2011 and still used as the organization's legal name) is a non-profit organization based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, that operates the Twin Cities' two Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television stations, KTCA-TV (virtual channel 2.1, UHF digital channel 34) and KTCI-TV (virtual channel 2.3, UHF digital channel 23), both licensed to Saint Paul. KTCA (channel 2) began broadcasting as the first non-commercial Public television station in the state on September 16, 1957, from a shabby, WWII wooden barracks-type structure on the University of Minnesota Agricultural Campus. The studios and offices were moved in the 1960s to what was known as the Minnesota Statehood Centennial Memorial Building for Education Television, at 1640 Como Avenue in Saint Paul. In 1967, KTCA became the first educational television station in the United States to broadcast in color. In 1977 it changed its corporate name to Twin Cities Public Television." -- Wikipedia