KGTF (channel 12) is a PBS member television station licensed to Hagåtña, Guam, serving the U.S. territory. The station is owned by the Guam Educational Telecommunications Corporation, an agency of the territorial government. KGTF's studios are located on the campus of the University of Guam on 194 Sesame Street adjacent to Guam Community College in Mangilao, and its transmitter is located on Mount Barrigada in Barrigada. KGTF currently operates from 6 a.m. to midnight seven days a week.
History
The National Educational Association set up an educational television project in Guam in August 1967, in line with similar plans in other US overseas territories, under the perception that television would bring the "modernization of education". Such consultancy would culminate in the creation of KGTF, with the launch set for 1970.[1]
The station signed on the air on October 30, 1970,[2] with only 4 1/2 hours of programming Monday through Friday, of which they would later expand throughout its 50-year history, including producing local shows and various projects. Original materials from PBS Guam have been contributed to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting