New Hampshire Public Television - Programming

NHPTV's three signals are multiplexed.

Because the state is split between the Boston, Portland, and Burlington/Plattsburgh markets, nearly all NHPTV viewers also receive another PBS station on cable or satellite (in some cases more than one). For much of its history, NHPTV elected to differentiate its program schedule for the other PBS stations in the market. Generally, NHPTV's broadcast of PBS programs and series did not air on the same day and time as they do on Boston's WGBH-TV, MPBN, Vermont Public Television or WCFE-TV in Plattsburgh.

NHPTV produced a number of local series, including:

• NH Outlook
• Windows to the Wild
• Granite State Challenge
• Wildlife Journal (co-produced with the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department)
• New Hampshire Crossroads

Production of most local programs, except for "Wildlife Journal", was discontinued in June 2011 because NHPTV lost all of its funding from the State Of New Hampshire, which accounted for 30% of the station's total Fiscal 2011 budget.

NHPTV produced live coverage of University of New Hampshire men's Hockey from the 1972/1973 season through the 2007/2008 season. However, in June 2008 NHPTV announced that it was unable to continue to broadcast the games due to budgetary considerations.

The cooking show Ciao Italia with Mary Ann Esposito was formerly distributed by NHPTV and produced at the NHPTV studios in Durham.

In September 2011 NHPTV was said to be in preliminary discussions with WGBH-TV and public broadcasters in Maine and Vermont about sharing infrastructure and content. The station became an independent nonprofit organization, New Hampshire Public Broadcasting (NHPB), on July 1, 2012 (it had operated as an entity of UNH from 1959 until 2008, when NHPB was established as a nonprofit subsidiary of USNH to take over day-to-day operations, though the USNH Board of Trustees retained the broadcast licenses at that time); this followed the 2011 loss of state funding, which resulted in NHPTV no longer receiving any money from USNH. Certain business services were then outsourced to WGBH, but the station itself still operates independently. However, as part of the arrangement, NHPTV began to follow PBS's national schedule in tandem with WGBH-TV on September 30, 2012 (with NHPTV Explore's lineup changing from a mix of educational, New England and local programming to a schedule nearly identical to that of WGBX-TV), and master control operations were relocated to the WGBH studios in Boston. Following the changes, Comcast dropped WGBH and WGBX from its New Hampshire systems and NHPTV from its Massachusetts systems.