After clawing for seven years over the same turf, Southern California’s two large public television stations — KCET and KOCE — are merging to become a stronger voice in local broadcasting. The ...

It’s official: KCET, one of the biggest siblings in the PBS family, is leaving home for good. Although station President Al Jerome has complained for years about high network dues and the contentious ...

Amid ongoing speculation that KCET may break away from PBS, representatives from the four Los Angeles-area PBS affiliates met Wednesday to discuss a restructuring plan that would prevent the nation’s ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. FOR MORE THAN FOUR DECADES, the main PBS station in Southern California was KCET, whose viewers tuned in to watch “American ...

Though it now does without PBS programs, KCET briefly recovered its role as the most-watched public TV station in Los Angeles in June. By last week, however, it was trailing PBS’s new primary outlet, ...

It’s been an interesting decade for noncommercial educational TV station KCET-28 in Los Angeles. In October 2010, the station announced that it could not reach an agreement with PBS to remain its main ...

William H. Kobin, the broadcast journalism pioneer who served as president and chief executive of KCET during its glory days by turning the debt-ridden public television station into an essential ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Public broadcaster KCET once again led all local TV stations in nominations for the Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, announced on ...

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She helped launch the L.A. station in 1964 with her husband, who with her brother began the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain in 1945. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Shirley Baskin Familian, who co-founded ...