And for reasons that mystify Rogers and the national PBS leadership, Latino kids haven’t tuned in to the PBS Kids’ block the way they did on KCET. “For some reason, other kids made the ...

In 1996, when Al Jerome first signed on as the president of KCET-TV, the PBS affiliate in Los Angeles, he had grand plans for the station. A longtime commercial broadcaster and former NBC ...

L.A. pubcaster KCET has made good on its threat to dump its longtime affiliation with PBS. KCET announced Friday that it would become an independent public broadcaster effective Jan. 1.

In an interview in today’s (Jan. 17) Broadcasting & Cable, KCET Board Chairman Gordon Bava insists the station has not “terminated” its relationship with PBS, but “we have suspended it indefinitely.

KCET will continue to carry the full PBS line-up through December 31, 2010, switching to independent status on Jan. 1, 2011. Here is the statement by Al Jerome, KCET President and CEO: ...

KCET also noted Southern California is one of the few markets with overlapping public TV stations. A spokesperson for PBS said they only learned Friday that KCET would carry out their long in-the ...

“We’re past PBS,” KCET President Al Jerome tells the Los Angeles Times in a story posted Monday (July 4). “We’re doing our own thing now. All we have to do is stay to our game plan, and we’re gonna do ...

Dissatisfied with the amount of money they have been getting from the Public Broadcasting System’s fundraising arm, KCET-TV (Channel 28) and seven other public television stations nationwide ...