Public television station KWSU-TV (Pullman, Wash.) to shut down at the end of the year

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Northwest Public Broadcasting halts KWSU-TV operations

A public television station founded 63 years ago on the campus of Washington State University will go dark at the end of the year.

 

KWSU-TV Pullman, operated jointly by WSU’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communications and Northwest Public Broadcasting, will cease operations on Dec. 31 following recent budget cuts and the loss of federal funding.

 

The TV station, which is a secondary provider – meaning that it has smaller audiences and limited opportunity to show top-tier public broadcasting – served mostly the Palouse region. Most Washington viewers who have access to KSPS in Spokane will not lose programming as a result of the shutdown.

 

But the KWSU station, which was one of the earliest educational TV stations in the Northwest, was nonetheless an outlet that provided rural viewers a chance to access educational programming provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

 

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Edited October 16, 2025 by AKA