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111-1165: The network is headquartered in the Terry M. Carpenter & Jack G. McBride Nebraska Public Media Center which is located at 1800 North 33rd Street on the East campus of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln , and has a satellite studio in Omaha . Nebraska was one of the first states in the nation to begin the groundwork for educational broadcasting. The University of Nebraska successfully applied to have channel 18 in Lincoln allocated for educational use in 1951. Meanwhile, broadcasting pioneer John Fetzer purchased Lincoln's two commercial TV stations, KOLN-TV (channel 12) in August 1953 and KFOR-TV (channel 10) in February 1954. In order to avoid running afoul of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ownership regulations and to create

222-426: A commercial broadcast monopoly for himself in the Lincoln market, Fetzer moved KOLN from its sign-on channel 12 to KFOR's channel 10 and offered to donate the channel 12 license to UNL. Since this would allow UNL to use more signal at less cost, the school quickly jumped at this proposal. KUON-TV went on the air on November 1, 1954, from KOLN-TV's studios, where the stations had to take turns using studio space; when KOLN

333-470: A contentious tenure highlighted by clashes over the place of religion in higher education . Under Fairfield's watch, the University of Nebraska hired its first female faculty member, Ellen Smith (Smith Hall, built on campus in 1967 as a student residence hall, is named in her honor). Smith's hire highlighted the young university's relatively diverse group of students and faculty; this was done deliberately by

444-691: A few were forced to resign for conduct detrimental to the university's reputation). Like most colleges across the United States, enrollment at NU plummeted as a result of the war. Nebraska was put in a particularly difficult position given the state and university's reliance on agriculture, which was slow to recover in the post-war years. Many at Nebraska wished to construct an on-campus memorial dedicated to those lost in The Great War. NU built Nebraska Field in 1909, but its wooden construction and limited seating capacity meant that after less than ten years there

555-512: A massive network of translator licenses – in some cases even "extra-legal." The transmitters and towers belonged to the Chautauqua Board of Cooperative Educational Services , the experimental Appalachian Television Project, and Cattaraugus Area Television System (CATS) group and were scattered across numerous small towns in Chautauqua , Cattaraugus and Allegany counties. The network predates

666-716: A member of the Big Ten Conference . NU's football team has won forty-six conference championships and claims five national championships , with an additional nine unclaimed. Twenty-five former Cornhuskers have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame . A total of 111 former Nebraska student-athletes have combined to win fifty-four Olympic medals , including sixteen gold medals. Among approximately 300,000 Nebraska alumni are three Nobel laureates , four Pulitzer Prize winners, one Turing Award winner, and twenty-two Rhodes Scholars . The University of Nebraska

777-422: A net loss of $ 236,324.42 (equivalent to $ 2.13 million in 2023 dollars). Less than a month later, NBC announced that it would purchase channel 17, partly as an experiment to see if a UHF station could compete with VHF stations given sufficient signal strength, marketing promotion, and investments in both programming and technical facilities. The network also hoped to expand its presence in major markets beyond

888-764: A new recreation center attached to the Nebraska Coliseum was funded by the University of Nebraska Foundation; it began construction in 1987 and the third and final phase was completed in 1992. The Honors Program (later expanded to include the Raikes School of Computer Science and Management) was established, and the school's first computer lab was completed in 1985 in the Selleck Quadrangle. The eight-million dollar Lied Center for Performing Arts finished construction in 1990. When longtime chancellor Martin Massengale

999-504: A new studio and transmitter complex on Buffalo's north side to provide service capabilities to match market-leading WBEN-TV and fast-rising WGR-TV, which took the ABC affiliation when NBC moved its programming to channel 17 in August 1956. However, despite a large investment and even a high rate of set conversions to receive UHF stations, WBUF never made much headway against WBEN-TV and WGR-TV; ratings for NBC were lower than in comparable markets, and

1110-774: A professor of military science and tactics in the 1890s; during World War I, Pershing commanded the American Expeditionary Forces and became the only person to hold the rank General of the Armies of the United States during his own lifetime. Because of his chemical expertise, Avery was asked to join the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service in Washington, D.C. , and during his absence the Board of Regents conducted "loyalty trials" against twelve faculty members accused of anti-American sentiment (all were exonerated of criminal activity, though

1221-600: A result, the Western New York Public Broadcasting Association put WNEQ-TV up for sale; it then announced the sale of WNEQ-TV to LIN Broadcasting (owner of WIVB-TV) in late 1999. Until this time, WNED-TV had maintained the old commercial license it had inherited from WBUF-TV, while WNEQ-TV had operated on a traditional non-commercial license. LIN needed WNED-TV's commercial license in order to make its acquisition viable. At one point, it seemed likely that LIN would actually purchase channel 17 from

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1332-546: A separate city from Lincoln). Ultimately, a statewide vote determined the university would remain in its original location, with funding prioritized for additional buildings on the Farm Campus (now East Campus). When the United States joined World War I in April 1917, students from Nebraska's extensive Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program were called into service. NU's ROTC was led by John J. Pershing during his time as

1443-416: A single name, Nebraska Educational Telecommunications. In May 2021, NET changed its name to Nebraska Public Media to more accurately represent the organization's entire impact. The Educational Television Commission had its mission broadened to radio in 1984, but it was 1989 before it could begin the groundwork for building a statewide public radio network. For many years, there were only two NPR members in

1554-479: A sister station, WNEQ-TV , on UHF channel 23. However, WNEQ failed to gain approval to from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to be carried on basic cable in southern Ontario, denying it access to potential viewers and donors, and both stations struggled financially. It soon became apparent that Buffalo was not big enough to support two public television stations. As

1665-663: A staggered basis. Listed below are the dates each analog transmitter ceased operations as well as their post-transition channel allocations: Nebraska Public Media's radio stations are governed by the NET Commission and the NET Foundation for Radio Board. It consists of all NPR member stations in the state except for KIOS in Omaha; that station is operated by the Omaha Public Schools . The stations' combined footprint covers most of

1776-487: A state-wide university system and offer the Omaha school additional budget pools to draw from. The University of Nebraska Medical Center, located in Omaha, was separated from the Lincoln school and brought under the direction of the new state-wide system. Hardin was named the first chancellor of the University of Nebraska system in 1968 and served for two years before being named United States Secretary of Agriculture under President Richard Nixon . During his tenure, Hardin

1887-497: A statue of Osborne and Berringer at Memorial Stadium. Osborne won another national championship in 1997, his third as a head coach, before retiring and naming longtime assistant Frank Solich his replacement. Spanier left in 1996 to become president of Pennsylvania State University , where he served until 2011 when he resigned following the Penn State child sex abuse scandal . Spanier was sentenced to two months in prison for his role in

1998-571: A suit which generated national attention. In an out-of-court settlement, Nebraska ETV agreed to allow NBC to keep its logo. In return, NBC donated a color mobile unit and other equipment totaling over $ 800,000. It also paid the commission an additional $ 55,000 for the costs of rolling out a new logo and eliminating the old logo from all advertising; Nebraska ETV's new logo was unveiled in late 1976. A CPB study, Study of School Use of Television and Video , found Reading Rainbow (a co-production of NET and Buffalo, New York 's WNED-TV until 2006) to be

2109-511: Is a PBS member television station in Buffalo, New York , United States. It is owned by the Western New York Public Broadcasting Association ( doing business as Buffalo Toronto Public Media) alongside NPR member WBFO (88.7 FM) and classical music radio station WNED-FM (94.5). The three stations share studios in Horizons Plaza at 140 Lower Terrace in downtown Buffalo; WNED-TV's transmitter

2220-633: Is a public land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska , United States. Chartered in 1869 by the Nebraska Legislature as part of the Morrill Act of 1862 , the school was the University of Nebraska until 1968, when it absorbed the Municipal University of Omaha to form the University of Nebraska system . It is the state's oldest university and the flagship institution of the state-wide system. The university has been governed by

2331-458: Is located in Grand Island, New York . More than half of WNED-TV's viewership is from Southern Ontario , Canada, where the main channel is included in cable and satellite packages by television service providers. Channel 17 first went on the air on August 17, 1953, as commercial station WBUF-TV. It was Buffalo's second commercial station after WBEN-TV (channel 4). Initially locally owned,

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2442-467: Is located in the Denver television market. KHNE, KYNE, and KXNE are available on the Lincoln, Omaha, and Sioux City DirecTV feeds, respectively. The signals of Nebraska Public Media's television stations are multiplexed : During 2009, in the lead-up to the analog-to-digital television transition that would ultimately occur in 2009, Nebraska Public Media shut down the analog transmitters of its stations on

2553-535: Is named for Carpenter, a state senator who introduced legislation in 1969 to fund the center, and McBride, NET's founding general manager for 43 years. (The KLNE-TV and KLNE-FM transmission tower ( 40°23′05″N 99°27′32″W  /  40.3848101°N 99.4588698°W  / 40.3848101; -99.4588698 ) is on the site of the World War II prisoner-of-war camp , Camp Atlanta , near Holdrege, Nebraska .) National Educational Television would be absorbed into

2664-435: Is now WNLO and operates as the market's CW affiliate. Through the use of a digital subchannel , WNED-TV began providing ThinkBright as a second programming service in the late 2000s, covering most of New York State with 12 hours a day of regional, educational and cultural programming. It was available on all New York PBS member stations except Long Island/New York City . ThinkBright later became ThinkBright and Well, and

2775-554: Is one of thirty-six United States business schools affiliated with the CFA Institute . In 2017, the College of Business opened Howard L. Hawks Hall, an $ 84 million, 240,000-square-foot facility named in honor of Omaha businessman and former NU Regent Howard Hawks. With over four thousand undergraduate students, it is NU's second-largest college. College of Education and Human Sciences The College of Education and Human Sciences (CEHS)

2886-588: Is owned by the University of Nebraska, but is operated by the Commission through a long-standing agreement between the Commission and NU. Nebraska Public Media operates 15 translators to widen its coverage area. Nine directly repeat KUON, four repeat KXNE and one repeats KMNE. Nebraska Public Media is available on nearly all cable systems in Nebraska. Selected cable systems in northern Kansas carry Hastings' KHNE in addition to Smoky Hills PBS ; these counties are part of

2997-753: Is the center of a market with over seven million people—seven times the population of WNED-TV's American coverage area. More than half of its members are in Canada; in February 2020, WNED officials told The Buffalo News that Canadians represented 66 percent of the station's viewership and membership revenue. Indeed, WNED-TV opted against moving its intellectual unit to channel 23 due to concerns that it would lose most of its Canadian viewership on cable. Not only does WNED-TV take its large Canadian audience into account in its programming, but more than half of its financial support comes in Canadian dollars . WNED-TV has long operated

3108-536: The Bob Devaney Sports Center , primarily a basketball venue from its opening in 1976 until 2013, was outfitted for use by Nebraska's volleyball program; and Pinnacle Bank Arena was constructed in downtown Lincoln. In 2011, Nebraska was removed as a member of the Association of American Universities , an organization of research universities of which it had been a member since 1908. Nebraska ranked near

3219-605: The Kent State shootings . Administration responded to protests by meeting and negotiating with student leaders, and as a result, no Vietnam War protests at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln became violent or required a National Guard intervention. Student leaders later praised Soshnik and anti-war professor Paul Olson for maintaining communication and allowing students to "vent their frustrations." Minor protests were held in January 1971 when President Richard Nixon visited Lincoln to honor

3330-672: The Korean War , and the Vietnam War . Avery retired in 1928 and dean of agriculture Edgar A. Burnett was named chancellor. The following year, the United States plunged into the Great Depression and the Great Plains were struck by the Dust Bowl ; an agriculture-dependent state, Nebraska was hit hard in the early 1930s as crop prices fell to all-time lows. By 1932, the University of Nebraska

3441-490: The Morrill Act of 1862 . Public opinion on the new school was split; many argued the state did not need a university as it did not even have a state-wide high school system, and others suggested any public university should be church-controlled, which was typical of eastern colleges at the time. Campus construction began in September 1869 when the cornerstone of University Hall was laid at the corner of 11th and S Streets. Though

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3552-597: The SAFER barrier for use on high-speed racetracks. Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts The College of Fine and Performing Arts was established in 1993 upon the completion of the Lied Center for Performing Arts . The center, and later the college, are named for donor Christina Hixson and the Lied Foundation Trust. College of Journalism and Mass Communications WNED-TV WNED-TV (channel 17)

3663-684: The University of Nebraska Regents (the owners of GPN) sold its long-time production interest to WNED-TV - this sale involved the station as petitioners in legal action against long-time Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton . Since March 2017, WNED has organized its online schedule using the Myers Infosys ProTrack Broadcast Management System. WNED-TV, along with sister stations WBFO and WNED-FM, began collectively referring to themselves as "Buffalo Toronto Public Media" on February 4, 2020. The rebranding, which concurrently saw WNED-TV amend its own branding to "WNED PBS",

3774-584: The University of Nebraska Omaha College of Public Affairs and Community Service, the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry and College of Nursing, and the Peter Kiewit Institute , which is managed in partnership with the Kiewit Corporation . College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources The Board of Regents established the School of Agriculture in 1877 as part of

3885-644: The University of Nebraska Omaha College of Public Affairs and Community Service, the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry and College of Nursing, and the Peter Kiewit Institute , which is managed in partnership with the Kiewit Corporation . Nebraska is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". According to the National Science Foundation , Nebraska spent $ 320 million on research and development in 2020. Between its three campus locations (City Campus, East Campus, and Nebraska Innovation Campus )

3996-462: The 1950s, the Municipal University of Omaha (now the University of Nebraska Omaha) was run-down and inadequately funded, threatening the existence of the school entirely. The Nebraska Legislature, faced with the prospect of its most-populous city not having a major institute of higher learning of any kind, decided to merge the Municipal University with the larger University of Nebraska to form

4107-494: The 2022–23 academic year, the new building will house CEHS. College of Engineering The Industrial College was founded in 1872 and began offering engineering classes in 1877. In 1909, it was split into the College of Engineering and the College of Agriculture. The Mechanical Arts Building (later Stout Hall) was completed in 1898 and served as the College of Engineering's primary home for nearly eighty years. What became Nebraska Hall

4218-491: The Board of Regents since 1871, whose members are elected by district to six-year terms. The university is organized into nine colleges: Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Architecture, Arts and Sciences , Business, Education and Human Sciences , Engineering , Fine and Performing Arts , Journalism and Mass Communications, and Law . NU offers over two hundred degrees across its undergraduate , graduate , and doctoral programs . The school also offers programs through

4329-533: The College of Law in 2016 and Ronnie D. Green was named his successor before retiring on June 30, 2023. Rodney D. Bennett assumed the chancellorship on July 1, 2023. The University of Nebraska system is governed by the board of regents, a twelve-member panel consisting of eight voting members and a non-voting student body president from each campus. Voting members are elected by district to six-year terms; elections are held in even-numbered years. The board of regents meets at Varner Hall on East Campus and supervises

4440-547: The Department of Architecture in 1930. The department did not become the College of Agriculture until 1973, by which time the University Library, the oldest building on campus, had become Architecture Hall. In 1987, Architecture Hall was connected to the former Law College building, significantly expanding the space available to the college. College of Arts and Sciences The College of Arts and Sciences , established with

4551-462: The Depression, he "felt the state needed something to rally around." University television network NETV (later Nebraska Educational Telecommunications, now Nebraska Public Media) was created in 1954, broadcasting over ninety hours of programming weekly. The station proved so popular, especially among rural towns, that schools and city councils raised money to purchase three new transmitters and boost

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4662-553: The FCC's discontinuation of channels 70 to 83, since some of the Cattaraugus County licenses were in that range. In addition, the CATS system originated some of its own local programming, such as live high school football games (this was possible mainly because one of the licenses, W26AA , was also a former commercial independent station , that of former CTV affiliate WNYP, whose license

4773-745: The Hastings/Kearney side of the Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney media market. Additionally, Omaha's KYNE is carried on most cable systems in southwestern Iowa. On satellite, KUON, KYNE, KPNE, KXNE, and KTNE are carried on the local Lincoln, Omaha, North Platte, Sioux City , and Cheyenne, Wyoming Dish Network feeds, respectively. KTNE is the sole PBS station available to satellite viewers in the Cheyenne market, due to FCC regulations that prohibit Wyoming PBS to be seen in that market, since KWYP-TV in Laramie

4884-635: The Industrial College, three years after the university was founded. Agricultural buildings were built on the outskirts of town given the lack of available farmland in downtown Lincoln, and this area came to be known as Farm Campus. The school received a boost when the Second Morrill Act was passed by the United States Congress in 1890, providing annual funds for land-grant research universities to support agricultural departments. In 1909 it

4995-541: The Innocents Society). Much of this new growth was attributed to the hiring of Brown University president Elisha Andrews ; under his guidance Nebraska became the fifth-largest public university in the United States. Andrews ambitiously sought funding for expansion; a 1904 investment from John D. Rockefeller led to the construction of The Temple, which still stands on campus. In total, nine new buildings were constructed during his tenure, including Nebraska Field , and

5106-504: The Nebraska Center for Continuing Education (now Hardin Hall) was established on Farm Campus to provide adequate living accommodations for the growing student body. Around this time, University of Chicago dean of agriculture Clifford M. Hardin was selected as Nebraska's twelfth chancellor; at thirty-eight, Hardin was the youngest university president in the country. Though not an avid fan of

5217-571: The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in October 1970, and Nebraska ETV joined the new network. In 1974, Nebraska ETV adopted a new logo – a red stylized abstract "N" formed from two trapezoids . A year later, NBC unveiled the same logo that Nebraska ETV was using, but for the blue coloring of the right trapezoid in the NBC logo. The commission sued NBC for trademark infringement in February 1976,

5328-718: The United States entered the war, he encouraged the university to "carry on" as normal. However, plummeting enrollment and intense national fervor meant the school could not stay "neutral" for long, and began offering vacant university buildings to the United States Army for training and shelter. Nebraska soon joined the Army Specialized Training Program and the campus became disorganized and chaotic as soldiers "studied very casually while in residence" before being deployed overseas. More than 13,000 soldiers received language, medical, or engineering training before

5439-702: The United States. The College is a component of the University's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR), as are the Agricultural Research Division (ARD), Nebraska Extension, and the ARD and Extension components of three departments in the College of Education and Human Sciences. The IANR's research, teaching, and extension education encompass the fields of food production, environmental stewardship, human nutrition, business development, and youth engagement. College of Architecture Nebraska offered its first architecture course in 1894 and established

5550-417: The University of Nebraska who shall serve as nonvoting members." Nebraska is one of four states with public university governing boards elected directly by the people. The president of the University of Nebraska system is appointed by and reports to the board of regents. The position was created in 1968 when the Municipal University of Omaha and the University of Nebraska Medical Center were absorbed into

5661-400: The University of Nebraska to create a state-wide system. Clifford M. Hardin was the first president and Ronald Roskens was the longest-tenured. Jeffrey P. Gold has been serving as Nebraska's president since July 1, 2024. The chancellor of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is appointed by the Board of Regents and reports to the president of the University of Nebraska system. The position

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5772-529: The University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Soshnik's tenure began in the midst of a transition for the universities of Nebraska, as well as a period of turmoil across many United States campuses as students protested American involvement in the Vietnam War . At Nebraska, this included a student takeover of the ROTC building on May 4, 1970, when a crowd of nearly two thousand protesters and onlookers gathered on campus hours after

5883-475: The Western New York Public Broadcasting Association bought two commercial radio stations, WEBR (AM) and WREZ (FM). The AM station had been founded in 1924, while the FM station was founded as WEBR-FM in 1960, becoming WBCE in the early 1970s before becoming WREZ. The FM station was renamed WNED-FM in 1977, when it adopted a classical music format. In 1977, WEBR became the nation's first public all-news radio station and

5994-469: The Western New York Public Broadcasting Association. This would have resulted in the WNED-TV intellectual unit moving to channel 23 (which would have made WNEQ-TV the area's primary PBS station), while channel 17 would have become a commercial station. However, the long history of channel 17 as a PBS member station made this an undesirable option for the public broadcaster due to concerns that having WNEQ-TV become

6105-559: The board of regents, which hoped to boost the school's enrollment and the city's population through immigration. Like University Hall, many early buildings were poorly and cheaply constructed, and not until James Hulme Canfield became chancellor in 1891 were any significant infrastructure upgrades made. The forward-thinking, enthusiastic Canfield was a sharp contrast to the conservative, traditional leaders before him. He began an aggressive remodeling and expansion of many university buildings, often overseeing construction himself. Among these

6216-589: The bottom of many AAU criteria due largely to the university's extensive USDA -funded agricultural research, which was not considered by the AAU because it was not awarded by peer-reviewed grants; and because Nebraska's medical center was a separate institution whose research funding was not under the auspices of the Lincoln campus. When the Big Ten expanded in 2010, all of its schools were members, and chancellor Harvey Perlman questioned whether Nebraska would have been invited to

6327-406: The broadcast's strength and range. The facilities for the new network were constructed on Farm Campus, which had grown considerably by the 1960s. It was home to more than just agricultural programs, including the College of Law , College of Dentistry , and Center for Hearing and Speech Disorders. To reflect this, it was renamed East Campus, given its location a mile east of the downtown campus. By

6438-409: The budget fight and was ultimately able to negotiate a more modest set of cuts for the 1933 and 1934 fiscal years. A slight recovery in crop prices before the next round of university funding in 1935 meant the state was willing to raise NU's budget back to what it was early in the Depression. In response to the lack of available state funds throughout the Depression, the University of Nebraska Foundation

6549-429: The building was very large, expensive, and ornate, it was made of low-quality materials and required a foundation repair before hosting a single class. By 1871, the university welcomed its inaugural class of twenty collegiate students and 110 preparatory students, and in 1873 offered its first degrees to graduating students. A school newspaper, Monthly Hesperian Student (later The Hesperian , now The Daily Nebraskan ),

6660-521: The college began a $ 170-million expansion and remodel of most of its Lincoln facilities. In conjunction with the Kiewit Corporation , the College of Engineering runs the Peter Kiewit Institute (PKI) in Omaha. PKI houses the original Holland Computing Center , which opened a second location in Lincoln in 2007. The college also operates the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility , which researches highway design and safety and in 2002 created

6771-515: The conference were it not an AAU member. During Perlman's tenure, the school's research expenditures reached $ 284 million, an all-time high, and enrollment increased by over ten percent. However, Perlman acknowledged that many fans remember him by the failures of Nebraska's previously powerful football program, which did not win a conference title while he was chancellor. In Perlman's sixteen years, Nebraska fired four football head coaches and two athletic directors. He retired to return to teaching at

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6882-720: The dismantling of its broadcast tower. NPM is seeking a new location for the translator but ultimately will replace it with a higher-power station, KUNE-FM. Although Nebraska Public Media provides PBS programming, it also produces original programs, such as: The Nebraska Public Media News team was led by News Director Dennis Kellogg until 2022. The news department produces regular "Signature Stories" for air on Nebraska Public Media's radio stations. 40°49′52″N 96°40′20″W  /  40.831117°N 96.672095°W  / 40.831117; -96.672095  ( Nebraska Public Media ) University of Nebraska The University of Nebraska–Lincoln ( Nebraska , NU , or UNL )

6993-546: The entire state—Omaha's KIOS and Lincoln's KUCV, which had signed on in 1974. In 1989, however, UNL bought KUCV from Union College . KUCV officially relaunched from its new studios on October 10, 1989. In 2001, KUCV moved from 90.9 FM (where it had been since its sign-on) to 91.1. In 1990, the commission opened stations in Alliance, Lexington, Columbus, Norfolk, and Hastings. North Platte, Bassett, Merriman, and Chadron followed in 1991. The entire Nebraska Public Radio Network (NPRN)

7104-564: The five stations where the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allowed any network or group owner to operate full-power VHF outlets, a limit NBC had reached by 1949. A revision of the FCC's ownership policy in 1954 created openings for additional ownership of two UHF outlets, and NBC became the first network to own the full complement of seven. NBC expanded WBUF's transmitter power considerably—ultimately, to 1 million watts—to improve its signal strength and range and built

7215-472: The following year. As the twentieth century began, the university attempted to balance its identity as both a pragmatic, frontier establishment and an academic, intellectual institution. In addition to its football team, several noteworthy campus organizations were founded around this time, including a debate team, the school's first fraternities and sororities, and the Society of Innocents (more commonly known as

7326-487: The former WBEN-TV, still operates. In February 1959, a consortium of educational leaders organized as the Western New York Educational Television Association applied for a new construction permit for the station, having secured the temporary use of equipment of both stations at Elmwood and the long-term use of soon-to-be-vacated WGR facilities in the Hotel Lafayette, as well as a pledge for $ 115,000 (equivalent to $ 919,624 in 2023 dollars) in equipment from NBC. The FCC granted

7437-408: The group a construction permit on March 4, and WNED-TV began broadcasting on March 30, making it the first educational TV station in the state of New York. It broadcast from the former WBUF-TV antenna, which was moved to the Hotel Lafayette that summer, in quarters previously used by WGR radio. Its first general manager was Leslie C. Martin Jr., who held the position from 1959 to 1966. In 1975,

7548-403: The letter K, as licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and ending in NE (the postal abbreviation for Nebraska) except "UON" (University of Nebraska) for the Lincoln station. Combined, they reach almost all of Nebraska, as well as parts of Colorado , Iowa , Kansas , Missouri , South Dakota , and Wyoming . Eight of the stations are owned by the NETC. Flagship station KUON

7659-442: The market's sole PBS outlet would cause viewer confusion and potentially reduce the amount of donations that the station would receive. As well, WNED-TV was carried on the basic cable tier of cable systems in the Golden Horseshoe and particularly Toronto , a major source of donations during the channel's fundraising drives, while WNEQ-TV had been repeatedly denied permission by the CRTC to be carried on basic cable in Toronto, meaning

7770-404: The most used and viewed children's television program in America during the 1990–1991 school year. Since 1974, NET has operated a studio in Omaha, on the campus of the University of Nebraska–Omaha . It is primarily used when KYNE breaks off from the network to broadcast programming of specific interest to the Omaha market. In January 2005, Nebraska ETV and Nebraska Public Radio were united under

7881-399: The operation, expenditures, and tuition rates of each university in the system. The board of regents was established by Nebraska State Constitution Article VII-10, which states "The general government of the University of Nebraska shall... be vested in a board of not less than six nor more than eight regents, who shall be elected from and by districts as herein provided and three students of

7992-427: The post-war years, and he became well-liked by the students. Gustavson was crucial to a number of post-war developments, including the integration of campus dormitories and the planning of the school's medical center (now the University of Nebraska Medical Center ). By the mid-1950s, the University of Nebraska's enrollment surpassed 18,000, nearly triple what it was before the war. New dormitories were constructed and

8103-478: The program was shut down in 1944 to allow for the opening of Love Library, which had been used as a barracks. Many new classes and programs were offered throughout the 1940s, most of them in the medical and engineering fields. Following the end of the war, the school experienced an enormous influx of students, many of which were returning veterans seeking an education as part of the G.I. Bill , which offered them free tuition and housing assistance. The average soldier

8214-407: The public broadcaster risked losing access to a major source of its revenue if it abandoned channel 17. The FCC was persuaded to allow channel 17 and channel 23 to swap licenses, allowing WNEQ-TV to be sold to LIN. After 42 years of being a commercial licensee operating as a non-commercial broadcaster, WNED-TV received an educational license in 2000. WNEQ-TV was sold to LIN in early 2001; that station

8325-730: The role on July 1, 2023. The Nebraska student government was established in 1919 as the Student Council and a constitution was adopted four years later. This constitution was revised in 1965 and the Student Council became the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska (ASUN). ASUN governs over four hundred student organizations on campus. The university has nine colleges, combining to offer more than 150 undergraduate majors, twenty pre-professional programs, and one hundred graduate programs. NU offers additional programs at its campus from other University of Nebraska institutions, including

8436-514: The same year Nebraska's student union opened on the corner of 14th and R Streets. The Board of Regents selected West Virginia University president Chauncey Samuel Boucher to replace Burnett. The Depression was still unfolding, and in response to a rising level of failing students at the university, Boucher instituted NU's first admission standards. At the outset of World War II in Europe , Boucher urged neutrality among students and faculty; even after

8547-496: The scandal. In 2008, the state of Nebraska voted to move the Nebraska State Fair from Lincoln, where it had been held since 1950, to Grand Island . The 249-acre (1.01 km ) site was turned over to the university, which began construction of Nebraska Innovation Campus (NIC) in 2012. The goal was for one-third of the development to be operated by NU, with the remaining two-thirds privately rented; though initial progress

8658-453: The school established its College of Law and School of Agriculture. The University of Nebraska's football program played its first game in 1890, but did not have a full-time head coach until hiring Frank Crawford in 1894. Nebraska State Journal (now Lincoln Journal Star) writer Cy Sherman began referring to the team as the Cornhuskers in 1899, and the nickname was officially adopted

8769-517: The school nearly doubled in enrollment. Shortly after Andrews retired due to health concerns, a fierce debate ensued over whether to keep the University of Nebraska in downtown Lincoln or to move it out of town. A relocation to the outskirts of Lincoln would allow for cheaper, quicker expansion and provide farmland for the College of Agriculture. New chancellor Samuel Avery favored this relocation, believing it would make alcohol-seeking students less likely to visit downtown Lincoln or nearby Havelock (then

8880-467: The school's national championship-winning football team . Nebraska won its second consecutive national title the following year, in the process defeating archrival Oklahoma 35–31 in what was dubbed "The Game of the Century" . The university completed several large-scale construction projects throughout the late 1980s. Nebraska's student recreation accommodations were among the worst in the region, and thus

8991-469: The sport himself, Hardin prioritized the re-establishment of Nebraska as a national football power and attempted to hire high-profile head coach Duffy Daugherty from Michigan State . Daugherty declined, but suggested Hardin contact Wyoming head coach Bob Devaney . Over the next forty years, Devaney and his successor Tom Osborne created one of college football's great dynasties, claiming five national championships between them. Hardin later said that after

9102-515: The state outside the Omaha metropolitan area, as well as parts of Iowa, South Dakota, and Kansas. Programming consists of classical music and NPR news and talk. Nebraska Public Media Radio can also be heard on the FNX television channel. There are nine full-power stations in the state network: The state network also has four low-power repeater/translator signals. K209FS went off the air in July 2023 due to

9213-406: The station lost money. After more than two years, and with a third VHF station looming, NBC opted to shutter WBUF on September 30, 1958; its programming returned to WGR-TV. In Buffalo, NBC left behind a substantial physical plant as well as channel 17 transmission equipment. The WBUF studio building was acquired by WBEN, which moved its radio and television stations there and from which WIVB-TV ,

9324-465: The station was mostly an affiliate of ABC and DuMont , but it also aired CBS programs. WGR-TV (channel 2, now WGRZ ) signed on in August 1954; it became the NBC affiliate for Buffalo, and WBEN-TV took CBS. Unable to compete with two strong VHF stations and with their proposal to add another VHF channel to the city unheard, the original owners of channel 17 took their station dark in February 1955. From startup to December 31, 1954, WBUF-TV had made

9435-461: The university has over one hundred classroom buildings and research facilities. The university's enrollment in 2021 was 19,552 undergraduate students and 4,879 graduate students, with 1,595 full-time or part-time instructional faculty. Undergraduate admission to the school is considered "more selective." Nebraska's athletic programs, known as the Cornhuskers , compete in NCAA Division I and are

9546-482: The university itself in 1869, is the oldest college at Nebraska. It is also the largest, offering sixty degree programs to over five thousand undergraduate students. College of Business Nebraska's school of commerce was founded in 1913 and became the College of Business Administration in 1919. The college was one of seventeen charter members of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business in 1916 and has since received accreditation in accounting as well. It

9657-454: Was University Library (now Architecture Hall), which was built in 1895 and is the oldest building on campus. Canfield worked to make the high school-to-college transition as easy as possible for Nebraskans and traversed the state tirelessly to encourage students from all backgrounds to consider higher education. By the time Canfield resigned in July 1895 to return to his native Ohio , enrollment had nearly quadrupled. Shortly after his departure

9768-447: Was appointed president of the university system in 1991, the Board of Regents named Oregon State University provost Graham Spanier as his successor. Spanier quickly resolved Nebraska's six-million dollar budget shortfall while raising admission standards. Upon the retirement of Bob Devaney as athletic director in 1992, Spanier defied the wishes of Tom Osborne and hired Bill Byrne as Devaney's replacement. Osborne's program, however,

9879-525: Was completed on the 31,000-seat stadium in just over ninety days, in time for NU's first home game of the 1923 season, a 24–0 win over Oklahoma on October 13. Memorial Stadium was dedicated the following week to honor Nebraskans who served in the American Civil War , the Spanish–American War , and World War I. Later, the dedication was expanded to honor Nebraskans who died in World War II ,

9990-526: Was created by an act of the Nebraska Legislature in 1869, two years after Nebraska was admitted into the Union as the thirty-seventh state. The law described the new university's aims: "The object of such institution shall be to afford to the inhabitants of the state the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of literature, science, and the arts." The school received an initial federal land grant of about 130,000 acres (53,000 ha) through

10101-463: Was created by six school districts in Nebraska. By 1961, five VHF and three UHF channels were allocated for educational use in Nebraska—the largest set ever approved for educational use in a single state. In 1963, the state legislature, per a committee's recommendation, approved plans for a statewide NETC-controlled educational television network on the model of Alabama Educational Television . A deal

10212-405: Was created in 1871, shortly after the school was founded. Allen R. Benton was the first chancellor and Samuel Avery was the longest-tenured. Rodney D. Bennett was named as the priority candidate for Nebraska's twenty-first full-time chancellor on May 22, 2023 and underwent a 30-day public vetting period. The board of regents unanimously approved Bennett's appointment on June 22, 2023, and he assumed

10323-623: Was discontinued in 2011 to merge with World . Over time, WNED-TV has become a leading PBS member station. It produced several original programs that have been carried throughout the PBS network and its member stations such as the Mark Russell comedy specials and Reading Rainbow , produced in association with Great Plains National until early 2006. Starting in May 2006, co-production of Reading Rainbow continued with Educate Inc. of Baltimore, Maryland , after

10434-416: Was established in 1937 to serve as the school's primary fundraising arm. The lack of funding, reduction in salaries, and cancellation of many university events caused a sense of general tension between administration, faculty, and students throughout most of the decade. Though he took a salary cut himself, Burnett became distrusted by the faculty, and his reputation never fully recovered. He resigned in 1938,

10545-567: Was established in 2003 when the College of Human Resources and Family Sciences was merged with Teachers College. The department offers a degree in Textile History and operates the International Quilt Museum on East Campus, which houses the largest public collection of quilts in the world. In 2020, Mabel Lee Hall was demolished to clear the site for the construction of Carolyn Pope Edwards Hall; upon its completion, scheduled prior to

10656-499: Was forced to institute a five-percent cut to maintenance and a ten-percent cut to all faculty salaries, including Burnett. A lengthy, bitter fight for funding between the Board of Regents and Nebraska Legislature lasted most of 1933, with the state initially suggesting an across-the-board budget reduction of over twenty percent, in addition to the cuts that had already been made, to prioritize funding for farmers. The Board of Regents desperately campaigned to alumni and voters for support in

10767-457: Was formally dedicated on October 8 in a special ceremony, broadcast live on NPRN and NETV. The Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Facilities Corporation was established to facilitate lease/purchase of the GTE SpaceNet 3 transponder. Download coordinates as: Nebraska Public Media consists of nine full-power TV stations that make up the network; all stations have callsigns beginning with

10878-512: Was incredibly successful during Spanier's tenure, compiling a record of 45–4 and winning two national championships across four seasons. Shortly after the second of these championships, backup quarterback Brook Berringer was killed in a plane crash days before the NFL draft , where he was projected to be a mid-round pick. Berringer, a Nebraska native, endeared himself to fans when filling in for injured starter Tommie Frazier in 1994. The university erected

10989-431: Was initially conceived as a combination gymnasium-stadium-war museum complex to be called the "Nebraska Soldiers and Sailors Memorial." Due to the slow post-war economy, the scope of the project was decreased to just a football stadium (though the Nebraska Coliseum was completed three years later). When the fundraising target amount of $ 450,000 had been met, a groundbreaking ceremony was held on April 23, 1923. Construction

11100-652: Was live, KUON had to broadcast a film, and vice versa. The station joined the nascent National Educational Television network (which had begun operations in May) upon its sign-on. It was operated in trust for UNL until 1956, when the FCC granted the channel 12 license to the school's Board of Regents. In 1957, KUON moved to its own studios in the Temple Building on the UNL campus. In 1960, the Nebraska Council for Educational Television

11211-429: Was older than the average college student, and thus the rate of drinking on campus (Nebraska remains a dry campus in principle to this day) increased significantly. Many older students were married with children, and the lack of adequate infrastructure on campus (specifically parking) culminated in a student riot in 1948. New chancellor Reuben Gustavson was understanding of the pranks and "tomfoolery" on his campus during

11322-480: Was part of a series of rebrandings connected to PBS' national November 2019 rebranding, and also reflects WNED-TV's significant Canadian viewership and financial support. WNED-TV was simulcast on many translators covering the Southern Tier of Western New York for several decades. Because of inadequate signal coverage to rural schools in the valley areas of mountainous southwestern New York State, WNED-TV once had

11433-492: Was praised among faculty for his dedication to increasing salaries and benefits, as Nebraska faculty were among the most well-compensated in the Midwest. Just as Gustavson before him, Hardin's administration prioritized federal grant money as a way to build NU's research profile without relying on state funding. When Hardin took control of the state-wide system, he appointed his longtime colleague Joseph Soshnik to run what had become

11544-474: Was purchased from the Elgin National Watch Company in 1958 and NU relocated most of its engineering programs there in 1971. The college absorbed the engineering department from the University of Nebraska Omaha in 1970; though the Omaha campus has its own facilities, its degree programs, faculty, and funding come from Lincoln and its students are considered part of the Lincoln university. In 2019,

11655-499: Was quickly established and the University of Nebraska State Museum (now Morrill Hall) opened in University Hall. In its early years, the University of Nebraska was modest in terms of enrollment, budget, and stature. The school's development was slowed by a mid-1870s grasshopper swarm that devastated the state's economy and caused NU's first chancellor, Allen R. Benton , to resign. Benton's successor, Edmund Burke Fairfield , led

11766-500: Was quickly reached in which Lincoln's KUON-TV would remain under UNL's ownership, but serve as the new network's flagship. In 1965, KLNE-TV in Lexington became the first station in the new state network, followed a month later (October 1965) by KYNE-TV in Omaha. The network grew quickly; six stations signed on from 1966 to 1968. It began a full seven-day schedule in 1969. The Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Center opened in 1972; it

11877-499: Was separated from the Industrial College as the College of Agriculture. The department was renamed the College of Agriculture Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR) in 1990. Farm Campus has since become East Campus and is no longer on the outskirts of Lincoln as the area around it has developed, but is still home to most CASNR buildings. The college maintains rural facilities across the state of Nebraska for research purposes. It offers one of eighteen PGA Golf Management degree programs in

11988-399: Was significant momentum toward the building of a larger steel-and-concrete stadium. The abrupt departure of highly successful head coach Ewald O. Stiehm temporarily slowed this momentum, but by the early 1920s, with "the present athletic field as inadequate now as the old one was in 1907," the university began plans to build a new stadium on the site of Nebraska Field. The new stadium project

12099-850: Was slow, the facility now has over forty full-time tenants. Nebraska announced on June 11, 2010, it would end its affiliation with the Big 12 Conference and accept an invitation to join the Big Ten . It was the university's first major conference transition since joining the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (later the Big Eight ) in 1921. Shortly after joining the Big Ten, Nebraska constructed or significantly renovated most of its major athletic facilities. A $ 63.5-million overhaul of East Stadium added six thousand seats and thirty-eight luxury boxes to Memorial Stadium;

12210-578: Was still active; eventually that station was spun off to a religious broadcaster and became WNYB ). The remaining stations in Chautauqua and Allegany counties were expunged from the FCC records and presumably shut down in 2012, leaving the translator network without any remaining transmitters. For the better part of the last four decades, WNED-TV has relied heavily on Toronto and southern Ontario for viewership and financial support; since at least 1999, it has identified as serving "Buffalo/Toronto" on-air. Toronto

12321-509: Was the top-rated public radio station in the country by 1978. In 1993, it was renamed WNED (AM) after cutbacks in government funding forced it to dramatically cut its local programming in favor of network and syndicated content. The AM station was sold off to a religious broadcaster in 2012 (who renamed it WDCZ ) when the Western New York Public Broadcasting Association bought Buffalo's other full NPR member, WBFO , and moved most of WNED radio's programming there. On May 23, 1987, WNED-TV signed on

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