For the first time in many years, the Kansas governor’s State of the State address won’t be broadcast live on television. At least that’s how things stand now.

Dave McClintock, interim CEO of KPTS-TV, the public television station in Wichita, said the station was unable to raise the money to cover the cost of the broadcast this year and therefore decided to cancel it. KPTS has carried the State of the State address for the last several years and has shared both the video and audio feeds with other stations that wanted to carry it.

This year, however, it’s doubtful that many commercial stations would carry it anyway because Gov. Sam Brownback has scheduled the Jan. 12 speech at 5:30 p.m., bumping up against the national network news programs.

Also, President Barack Obama is scheduled to deliver his final State of the Union address at 8 p.m. that same night.

Eileen Hawley, Brownback’s press secretary, said the state of Kansas will live-stream a video feed of the speech through its website, Kansas.gov. She also said the administration is working with media outlets to ensure that all Kansans are able to watch and listen to the address.

J. Schafer, news director at Kansas Public Radio in Lawrence, said KPR will carry the audio portion of the speech live, and will make that signal available to other public radio stations in Kansas City, Wichita, Pittsburg, Hutchinson and Garden City by way of an NPR satellite, but that satellite signal is unavailable to non-NPR affiliates.

McClintock said he regretted that KPTS is unable to carry the speech this year.

“Hopefully we’ll not be in that position next year,” he said.

Note: This story has been updated from an earlier version to reflect that the state of Kansas will live-stream the speech on its website.