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KCET

KCET (channel 28) is a secondary PBS member television station in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is owned by the Public Media Group of Southern California alongside the market's primary PBS member, Huntington Beach–licensed 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).

This article is about the Los Angeles television station. For the Japanese video game developer, see Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo.

PBS SoCal Plus

Public Media Group of Southern California

September 28, 1964 (1964-09-28)

  • Analog: 28 (UHF, 1964–2009)
  • Digital: 59 (UHF, 2000–2009)

  • California Educational Television
  • Committee for Educational Television
  • Community Educational Television
  • -or-
  • Cultural and Educational Television

FCC

13058

926.4 m (3,039 ft)

History[edit]

Background of educational television in Southern California[edit]

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.[2] 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.

Technical information[edit]

Subchannels[edit]

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Official website