KCET
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Los Angeles, California United States |
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| Branding | KCET |
| Slogan | Local. Global. Connected. (primary) |
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Digital: 28 (UHF) Virtual: 28 () |
| Translators | (see article) |
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| Owner | KCETLink Media Group |
| First air date | September 28, 1964 |
| Call letters' meaning | Community Educational Television |
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| Transmitter power | 155 kW |
| Height | 926 metres (3,038 feet) |
| Facility ID | 13058 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°13′26″N 118°3′44″W / 34.22389°N 118.06222°WCoordinates: 34°13′26″N 118°3′44″W / 34.22389°N 118.06222°W |
| Licensing authority | Federal Communications Commission |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | kcet |
KCET, channel 28, is a non-commercial educational, independent television station located in Los Angeles, California, USA. The station's studios are located in Burbank, California, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson. It is part of the KCETLink Media Group.
KCET was a charter member of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) at its inception in 1970. The station was Southern California's flagship PBS member station until December 31, 2010, when it ended its partnership with PBS after 40 years to become the nation's largest independent public television station. KCET's management cited unsolvable financial and programming disputes among its major reasons for leaving PBS.
For much of its time on air, KCET had broadcast from its studios in Hollywood until moving to new offices in Burbank's media district in 2012. The move left CW affiliate KTLA (channel 5) as the last remaining radio or TV broadcaster in that neighborhood as stations have moved on to other cities and neighborhoods in the region.
KCET was actually the second attempt at an educational station in the Los Angeles area: KTHE, operated by the University of Southern California, had previously broadcast on channel 28, beginning on September 22, 1953. It was the second educational television station in the United States, signing on six months and four days after KUHT in Houston, Texas, but it went dark after nine months due to its primary benefactor, the Hancock Foundation, determining that the station was too much of a financial drain on its resources.
KCET, licensed to the non-profit group Community Television of Southern California (CTSC), first signed on the air on September 28, 1964 as an affiliate of National Educational Television (NET). Part of the station's initial funding came from four of Los Angeles's commercial stations–KNXT (channel 2; now KCBS-TV),KNBC (channel 4),KTTV (channel 11) and KCOP (channel 13)–along with grants from the Ford Foundation and the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. KCET initially broadcast in black and white from Monday through Friday.James Loper, a co-founder of CTSC, served as the station's director of education from 1964 to 1966 and then vice president and general manager from 1966 to 1971. Loper then served as president of KCET from 1971 to 1983.
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