San Jose/San Francisco/ Oakland, California United States |
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City | San Jose, California |
Branding | KQED Plus |
Slogan | Brilliantly British |
Channels |
Digital: 50 (UHF) Virtual: 54 () |
Subchannels | (see article) |
Affiliations | PBS |
Owner | Northern California Public Broadcasting |
First air date | October 19, 1964 |
Call letters' meaning | portmanteau of KQED and former KTEH call sign |
Sister station(s) | KQED, KQET, KQED-FM |
Former callsigns | KTEH (1964–2011) |
Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 54 (UHF, 1964–2009) |
Former affiliations | NET (1964–1970) |
Transmitter power | 310 kW |
Height | 661.8 meters (2,171 ft) |
Facility ID | 35663 |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°29′17″N 121°51′59″W / 37.48806°N 121.86639°WCoordinates: 37°29′17″N 121°51′59″W / 37.48806°N 121.86639°W |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
Website | www.kqed.org/tv |
KQEH, virtual channel 54 (UHF digital channel 50), is a PBS member station serving the San Francisco Bay Area that is licensed to San Jose, California, United States. The station is owned by KQED, Inc., alongside sister station KQED (channel 9) in San Francisco, its satellite KQET (channel 25) in Watsonville and NPR member radio station KQED-FM (88.5). The three stations share studios and offices located on Mariposa Street in San Francisco's Mission District, The KQEH transmitter is located on Monument Peak (Milpitas, California).
The station first signed on the air on October 19, 1964, as KTEH. In the late 1990s, KTEH bought KCAH in Watsonville, which was founded in 1989 to serve as the PBS station for the Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz market. Before being acquired by KQED, KTEH maintained a Technical Volunteer program, which allowed volunteers to learn how to operate cameras, audio, shading, directing and other production and technical responsibilities, while minimizing its costs. These volunteers made up the technical crews for all of their pledge drives and auction programming, as well as other occasional live broadcasts.