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KCET is one of four PBS member stations serving Los Angeles and Southern California, the others being KVCR-TV, KOCE-TV, and KLCS. Broadcasting on channel 28, the studio is located at 4401 West Sunset Boulevard. Its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson, one of the highest points in Los Angeles County.
History
KCET signed on September 28, 1964 as an affiliate of NET. It 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 November 29, 1953 (the second educational television station in the United States, signing on six months and four days after KUHT in Houston, Texas), but 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.
The call letters KCET stand for Community Educational Television, not to be confused with the organization of the same name formed by Daystar Television Network in 2003, which made an unusccessful bid to purchase Orange County public television station KOCE.
In 2000 KCET-DT signed on ch.59.
Programming
KCET produced the acclaimed Carl Sagan series A Personal Voyage in 1978-1979. Current productions include its signature public affairs program Life & Times (underwrited by Carl's Jr.), and the travelogue Huell Howser's California's Gold (underwrited by AAA, Bp, Toyota, and Sempra Energy). They also produce the weekday talk show The Tavis Smiley Show, California Connected, and recently, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, have produced a six-part miniseries in conjunction with the BBC called Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State. PBS Hollywood is a production of KCET.
KCET purchased the property for their studio in Los Angeles in 1971, assisted financially in part by both the Ford Foundation and the Michael Connell Foundation.
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