Organizations KQED (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)

KQED

KQED Inc. is a non-profit public media outlet based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, which operates the radio station KQED-FM and the television stations KQED/KQET and KQEH. KQED's main headquarters are located in San Francisco and its Silicon Valley office is located in San Jose. In 2019 the San Francisco headquarters broke ground on a 90 million renovation project. It's expected to be complete by September of 2021. Improvements, include a larger newsroom and studio and a top floor outdoor terrace. The heart of the new KQED is a 238-seat multipurpose event center called The Commons. The venue will the host KQED Live, a new series of lectures, concerts, discussions and other live events with entertainers, journalists, politicians, musicians, authors, chefs and others. KQED was organized and created by veteran broadcast journalists James Day and Jonathan Rice on June 1, 1953, and first went on air April 5, 1954. It was the sixth public broadcasting station in the United States, debuting shortly after WQED in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The station's call letters, Q.E.D., are taken from the Latin phrase, quod erat demonstrandum, commonly used in mathematics. KQED-FM was founded by James Day in 1969 as the radio arm of KQED Television. Read more at Wikipedia...

Inception: 1953

Alternate Names: Northern California Public Broadcasting, KQED, Inc.
Website:  http://www.kqed.org 

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