Pioneer PBS

About Us

As a trusted and valued communicator for small towns and farming communities in rural Minnesota since 1966, Pioneer PBS is an award-winning, viewer-supported television station that has served its audience through a mix of local and national programs rich in cultural heritage, diversity and educational opportunities. We take pride in our local productions which showcase rural artists and locations, tribal members and veterans, small business owners, the outdoors, and celebrate the good and meaningful aspects of greater Minnesota. 

Pioneer PBS is currently based in Granite Falls, Minnesota. Our original operations began in western Minnesota at KWCM-Appleton doing business as West Central Minnesota Educational Television Company. Operations run through Appleton (channel 10), KSMN-Worthington (channel 20) and K08QE-D Fergus Falls (channel 8), as well as by satellite and through our local livestream. KSMN, K08QE and UHF do not maintain any physical presence locally. All together we reach more than a million people in rural areas and small towns in western Minnesota, the eastern Dakotas and northern Iowa.

Pioneer PBS is honored to be your television station—the only station in western Minnesota telling your stories and raising your voices into the media landscape. For more information visit pioneer.org or call 800-726-3178.