Organizations KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)

KCET

KCET, virtual and UHF digital channel 28, is a secondary Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Los Angeles, California, United States. Owned by the Public Media Group of Southern California, it is sister to Huntington Beach-licensed primary PBS member KOCE-TV (channel 50). The two stations share studios at The Pointe (on West Alameda Avenue and Bob Hope Drive, between The Burbank Studios and Walt Disney Studios complexes) in Burbank; KCET's transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson in the San Gabriel Mountains (north of Sierra Madre). KCET was the second attempt at establishing 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, but ceased broadcasting after only nine months on the air because its primary benefactor, the Hancock Foundation, determined that the station was too much of a financial drain on its resources. Read more at Wikipedia...

Inception: 1963

Alternate Names: Community Television of Southern California, KCETLink
Owned by: Public Media Group of Southern California
Website:  http://www.kcet.org 
Associated Place(s): Los Angeles

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