by Bergeron, it is now hosted by Jim Jeanotte, who also did many years of play-by-play for NHPTV's UNH hockey coverage. On October 1, 2017, NHPTV rebranded as New Hampshire PBS (NHPBS). Programming Because New Hampshire is split between the Boston, Portland, Maine and Burlington, Vermont–Plattsburgh, New York markets, nearly all NHPBS viewers also receive another PBS station on cable or satellite (in some cases more than one). For much of its history, NHPTV/NHPBS 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 PBS 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 most University of New Hampshire men's hockey home games 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 non-profit 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 the University System of New Hampshire (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. As part of the arrangement, NHPTV began to follow PBS' national schedule in tandem with WGBH-TV on September 30, 2012 (with NHPTV Explore's lineup changing from a mix