KCET is an independent, non-commercial public television station licensed to Los Angeles, California, USA.

On March 30, 2011, the Los Angeles Times reported that KCET was in negotiations to sell the studio to the Church of Scientology, with KCET relocating to a smaller location following the sale, in light of KCET's sharp decreases in ratings and pledges following dismembership from PBS.

Peabody award-winning shows A Place of Our Own and its Spanish language equivalent, Los Niños en Su Casa are taped at the KCET studios.

* KCET, Los Angeles for " Up In Smoke, Protected or Neglected ?, Hung Out to Dry?

As the first west coast talk show for PBS, it is recorded at the studios of Los Angeles, California former PBS station KCET.

The show will continue to be presented by and produced at KCET after January 1, 2011, although the station will not be able to air the program itself as it left PBS as of that date ( the program will retain its 11pm time in Los Angeles on new Southern California flagship KOCE after that date ).

Huell Burnley Howser ( born October 18, 1945 ) is an American television personality best known for California's Gold, his travel show for the Los Angeles based KCET.

In 1985 he joined Los Angeles television station KCET, then a PBS affiliate, as a producer of " Videolog ", covering short topics including lint.

The show has had a presence on the Internet since 1995, and more than 100 American Experience programs are accompanied by their own websites, which have more background information on the subjects covered as well as teachers ' guides .< ref > The show is produced primarily by WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, though occasionally in the early seasons of the show, it was co-produced by other PBS stations such as WNET in New York and KCET in Los Angeles.

Former PBS affiliate KCET in Los Angeles, now an independent station, started re-broadcasting the series in the fall of 2011.

He was also the founder of Los Angeles public television station KCET.

This agreement continues to the present day, with KOCE since becoming the flagship Los Angeles area member station of PBS in January 2011, replacing KCET.

" PBS decided not to distribute this episode, but some member stations across the country chose to air the episode, including WNET in New York, KCET in Los Angeles, and KERA in Dallas / Ft.

KCET ( also based in Los Angeles ), the former primary PBS station for the Los Angeles market, voluntarily severed ties with PBS effective January 1, 2011.

It is one of five television stations licensed in the City of Los Angeles that continue to utilize their original call signs, the other stations being KTLA, KTTV, KCET, and KMEX.

His writing credits also include television programs produced by ABC Television and KCET / Los Angeles and the 70s classic 20th Century-Fox movie Mother, Jugs & Speed.

* Los Angeles: KTLA, KHJ-TV / KCAL-TV KCOP, KWHY-TV, KDOC-TV, KCET

The Puzzle Place is an American children's television series produced by KCET in Los Angeles, California and Lancit Media in New York City, New York.

It premiered on the Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ) on January 16, 1995, ( although production was dated and first premiered on two Los Angeles PBS stations, KCET and KLCS on September 15, 1994.

The station became the Los Angeles area's primary PBS station on January 1, 2011, when the area's previous primary station, KCET, ended its link to PBS after 40 years and became an independent public television station.

After KCET originally went on the air in 1964 its owners, Community Television of Southern California, had sought Los Angeles ' second non-commercial television allocation on UHF channel 58.

) Monterey Park's effect on tourism in Chinatown, Los Angeles was featured on the " Life and Times " show on the Los Angeles former-PBS affiliate KCET.

KVCR predated KCET, Channel 28 by more than two years, KPBS, San Diego, by five years, KOCE, Channel 50, by a decade and KLCS by eleven years.

On January 4, 2011, KQED expanded its broadcasting areas to include both San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria, as then-PBS affiliate KCET left public broadcasting at the end of 2010.

San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria were previously served by KCET.

( Palm Springs is also served by KVCR-DT and San Diego PBS member KPBS-TV, while Bakersfield, which was also served by KCET, is now served via cable and over-the-air through Fresno PBS member KVPT.

There are a number of independent non-PBS public television stations in the United States ; other such stations include KCSM-TV in nearby San Mateo, KCET in downstate Los Angeles, the WNVC / WNVT MHz Networks group in Northern Virginia, WNYE-TV in New York City and WYBE in Philadelphia.

He previously served on the boards of Williams College, KCET Public Television, The California Community Foundation, Leadership Education for Asian-Pacifics, the Consumer Advisory Committee of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and of the Harvard-Westlake School.

KCET was a Tokyo-based game developer responsible for many of Konami's most notable video game franchises, including Pro Evolution Soccer / Winning Eleven, Castlevania, Dance Dance Revolution, Gradius and Silent Hill

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 unsuccessful bid to purchase Orange County public television station KOCE.

In a letter to viewers, board chairman Gordon Bava said that PBS wanted KCET to pay $ 7 million for its programming — more than double what KOCE was paying.

As the flagship PBS station for the Pacific Time Zone, KCET was a major producer of PBS programming.

KCET produced or presented Hollywood Television Theater, Trying Times, and the Hispanic family drama American Family for PBS, and was one of the consortium of stations that produced American Playhouse.

Both programs, part of the KCET initiative, have received a generous grant from BP to expand its coverage as a nation-wide television program designed for care-givers.

After 2011 however the show looks likely to move elsewhere, as Smiley has said he has a tenuous relationship with KCET officials over a lack of fundraising for the series, and will only keep filming at the studios for the present time as there was no time after KCET's PBS dismembership announcement to find a new taping facility.

In 1995, the first Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo ( KCET ) title, Winning Eleven was developed for the PlayStation ( Goal Storm internationally ) and in 1996, Jikkyō J-League: Perfect Striker made its debut on the Nintendo 64 ( re-used worldwide in 1997 as International Superstar Soccer 64 with international teams instead of J-League ).

KCET produces its hard-hitting news program, " SoCal Connected " that examines the issues and people of Southern California.

On November 9, Huell Howser released a music video of his performance of " California, Here I Come " on KCET.

Then, it dropped PBS in a cost-cutting move and became an independent public television station ( in a similar manner to southern California public TV giant KCET ).

The Keck Foundation has been a long-time supporter of public television in Southern California, including underwriting the broadcast of Sesame Street on KCET since the 1970s.

For much of its time on air, KCET had broadcast from its studios in Hollywood until moving to new offices in Burbank in 2012.

At the end of Fiscal 2011, contributions and grants to KCET decreased even further, down 41 percent from the previous year to $ 22. 3 million.

Since 2011, KCET appeared to show shorts from its longtime series " Life & Times ", these shorts where known as " encore ".

A few kids ' shows also come from KCET -- Storytime, The Puzzle Place, Adventures from the Book of Virtues, The Charlie Horse Music Pizza, and Sid the Science Kid ( the later now airing on KOCE ).

* Huell's Interactive L. A. from the KCET website