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KQED
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| KQED | |
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| San Francisco, California | |
| Branding | KQED |
| Channels | Analog: 9 (VHF) Digital: 30 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | Northern California Public Broadcasting |
| Founded | 1954 |
| Call letters meaning | K Quod Erat Demonstrandum |
| Sister station(s) | KQED-FM |
| Former affiliations | NET (1954-1970) |
| Transmitter Power | 316 kW (analog) 777 kW (digital) |
| Height | 509 m (analog) 437 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 35500 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| Website | www.kqed.org |
KQED is a public broadcasting company based in San Francisco, California. On May 1, 2006, KQED, Inc. and the KTEH Foundation merged to form Northern California Public Broadcasting.[1] The KQED assets including its television (KQED-TV) and FM radio stations (KQED-FM) were taken under the umbrella of that new organization. Both remain members of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), respectively. KQED reaches most of Northern California via over-the-air broadcast, cable television and satellite. KQED also produces programming for radio and television for local, national and international distribution.
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KQED-TV is an NTSC television signal on VHF channel 9. This channel is also carried on Comcast cable TV and via satellite by DirecTV and Dish Network. Its transmitter is located on Sutro Tower in San Francisco.
Noteworthy KQED television productions include the first installment of Armistead Maupin's miniseries Tales of the City, Tongues Untied by Marlon Riggs, and a series of programs focusing on the historic neighborhoods in San Francisco, such as The Castro and The Fillmore District. Ongoing productions include The Josh Kornbluth Show, California Connected, Check, Please! Bay Area, Spark and This Week in Northern California.
KQED-DT is an ATSC digital television signal broadcast over channel 30 from Sutro Tower available over-the-air with a digital tuner, or through digital cable service from Comcast.[2] With either, there is an offering of five sub-channels:
- KQED HD on DT9.1 / 30.1 (Comcast 709)
- KQED Life-Encore on DT9.2 / 30.2 (Comcast 189)
- KQED World on DT9.3 / 30.3 (Comcast 190)
- V-Me on DT9.4 / 30.4 (Comcast 191)
- KQED Kids on DT9.5 / 30.5 (Comcast 192)
Founded in 1969, KQED-FM is the most-listened to public radio station in the United States, and is typically rated third in the Arbitron ratings.[3] In addition to local programming KQED-FM carries content from major public radio distributors such as National Public Radio, Public Radio International, BBC World Service and Minnesota Public Radio. Among the locally produced shows are Forum with Michael Krasny, The California Report, Perspectives and Pacific Time.
The KQED-FM FM radio signal is broadcast from several locations in northern California:
- KQED-FM 88.5 MHz in San Francisco
- KQEI-FM 89.3 MHz in Sacramento
- via translator: 88.3 MHz in Santa Rosa
- via translator: 88.1 MHz in Martinez and Benicia
In addition to over-the-air broadcasts, KQED-FM audio is carried on Comcast digital cable channel 960 and is webcast with live streaming audio around the clock with Forum, and Pacific Time carried live with nationwide coverage on Sirius Satellite Radio. KQED also offers an extensive audio archive and podcasts of previous shows for download.
One of the most famous programs to have been broadcast on KQED was An Hour with Pink Floyd, a sixty minute performance by Pink Floyd recorded in 1970 without an audience at the Fillmore West. The program was broadcast only twice—once in 1970, and once again in 1984. The setlist included Atom Heart Mother, Cymbaline, Grantchester Meadows, Green Is the Colour, Careful with that Axe, Eugene, and Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun.
In 1955, KQED began publishing a programming guide called KQED in Focus. The program guide began to add more articles and took on the character of a regular magazine. The name was later changed to Focus Magazine and then to San Francisco Focus.[4] In 1984, a new programming guide, Fine Tuning was separated off from Focus, with Focus carrying on as a self-contained magazine.[5] In the early 1990s, San Francisco Focus was the recipient of number of journalism and publishing awards, including a National Headliner Award for feature writing in 1993. In 1997, KQED sold San Francisco Focus to Diablo Publications in order to pay off debts.[6] In 2005, San Francisco Focus was resold to Modern Luxury Media, who rebranded the magazine as simply San Francisco.[7]
KQED was organized and created by veteran broadcast journalists Jim Day and Jon Rice the on 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., literally translated from the Latin phrase, quod erat demonstrandum, mean: which was to be demonstrated.
KQED Television had a sister station, KQEC, which broadcast on Channel 32. KQED had inherited the station in 1970 (as KNEW-TV) from Metromedia, but found they could not profitably operate it. Various PBS and locally produced programs from KQED would air erratically and at different times of the day on KQEC. In 1988, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revoked KQED's license to operate KQEC citing excessive off-air time, further charging dishonesty in previous filings with regard to the specific reasons. The alleged dishonesty was in reference to KQED's claim of financial woe's for keeping KQEC off the air for most of 1972 through 1977, and again for several months in 1979 and 1980. After being pulled from KQED, the reassigned license was granted to the Minority Television Project (MTP), one of the challengers of the KQED/KQEC filing.[8] KQEC was re-branded KMTP under the new license.
During the early 1990s, when the State of California reinstituted the death penalty, the KQED organization waged a highly controversial legal battle for the right to televise the forthcoming execution of Robert Alton Harris at San Quentin State Prison.[9] The decision to pursue the videotaping of executions was controversial amongst those on both sides of the capital punishment debate;[10] contemporary reports noted that a number of KQED's members (primarily families throughout the Bay Area) dropped their financial support for the station, intending for their charitable contributions to KQED to support programs such as Sesame Street rather than legal fees.[citation needed]
KQED was co-producer of the television adaptation of Armistead Maupin's novel, Tales of the City, which aired on PBS stations nationwide in January 1994. The six-part miniseries stirred controversy over the gay themes, nudity and illicit drug use in this fictional portrayal of life in 1970s San Francisco. The controversy led to calls from the public to cancel the series, a bomb threat at WTCI in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which forced that station to pull the program an hour before airtime, and threats from state and federal governments to cut funding for the network and its stations. Although the program gave PBS its highest ratings ever for a dramatic program, the network decided to forgo participation in the production of an adaptation of the second book in the series, More Tales of the City.
In 2003, KQED Radio expanded to the Sacramento area by purchasing KEBR-FM in North Highlands from Family Stations, a religious broadcaster based in Oakland. Some residents and management at KXJZ, the NPR station already serving the Sacramento area, criticized the move, saying that KQED would only duplicate KXJZ programming. KXJZ's parent company - Capital Public Radio - also had plans to purchase KEBR. CPR's plan was to broadcast jazz on KEBR and convert KXJZ into an all-news station. Indeed, KQED and KXJZ carry Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, and All Things Considered at the same times opposite each other. KQED argues that it carries more regional news programming during the middle of the day, and news programs at night, while KXJZ has a smaller news bureau and music programming overnight. Capital Public Radio and community residents argued that duplication of the exact same NPR programming serves no one, and that it is very unusual for one NPR station to move in on the territory of a successful existing station. KXJZ has also increased its local midday programming with the addition of Insight, a daily interview program. Note: KQED-FM has done something similar before. When they converted to an all news and information format by dropping classical music during the day, management and listeners of KALW (another San Francisco public radio station) cried foul, claiming that KQED had stolen KALW's format. KALW had run news and information programs during the day.
- ^ KQED Pressroom (2 May 2006). "Inc. and KTEH Foundation Form New Broadcast Organization". Press release. Retrieved on 2007-01-17.
- ^ Comcast San Francisco Channel Lineup. Comcast. Retrieved on 2007-01-17.
- ^ Ben Fong-Torres (12 March 2006). Radio Waves. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved on 2007-01-17.
- ^ "About KQED: The 1950s", KQED.com.
- ^ "About KQED: The 1980s", KQED.com.
- ^ "About KQED: The 1990s", KQED.com.
- ^ "San Francisco magazine re-launches in a new format that redefines city and luxury magazine publishing" (press release), Modern Luxury Media, October 18, 2005.
- ^ Alex Friend. "FCC revokes license for San Francisco public TV station KQEC", Current.org, 11 May 1988. Retrieved on 2007-01-17.
- ^ Michael Schwarz. Witness to an execution. Indiana University School of Journalism. Retrieved on 2007-01-17.
- ^ Jill Smolowe. "The Ultimate Horror Show", TIME Magazine, 3 June 1991. Retrieved on 2007-01-17.
- KQED Official website
- California Connected Official website
- This Week in Northern California Official website
- KQED-FM Audio Stream (RealAudio)
- KQED-FM Audio Stream (Windows Media Audio over MMS)
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KQED
- Query the FCC's FM station database for KQED
- Query the FCC's FM station database for KQEI
- Forum discusses proposed changes to KQED's bylaws, which would eliminate members' voting rights.
- Results of Member Elections include the elimination of their voting rights
- KQED Workers Authorize Strike
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KOTR-LP 2 (MNTV) - KMMD-CA 3 (MTV3) - K10OI 5 (TVA) - KSBW 8 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2) - K15CU 15 / K47LC-D (TEL) - KLFB-LP 21 (3ABN) - KMUV 23 (TEL) - K23ED 23 (Ind) - KQET 25 (PBS) - KYMB-LP 27 (TBA) - K29AB 29 (Ind) - KDJT-CA 33 (TFU) - KCBA 35 (Fox) - K38JP 38 (PBS) - KMCE-LP 43 (AZA) - KION 46 (CBS, The CW on DT2) - KSMS 67 (UNI) |
| See also Broadcast television in the San Francisco, Fresno / Visalia, and Santa Barbara / Santa Maria / San Luis Obispo markets |
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KVIE 6 (Sacramento) - KIXE 9 (Redding) - KQED 9 (San Francisco) - KEET 13 (Eureka) - KPBS 15 (San Diego) - KVPT 18 / KVPT-LP 34 (Fresno / Bakersfield) - KRCB 22 (Cotati) - KVCR 24 (San Bernardino) - |
| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Independent, Other Spanish Network, Religious, Home Shopping and Other stations in California |
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| Stations | Arcata KHSU · Bakersfield KPRX · Burney KNCA · Calexico KQVO · Chico KCHO · Crescent City KHSR · Fresno KVPR · Groveland KXSR · Indio KCRI · Long Beach KKJZ · Los Angeles KUSC · Mendocino KPMO · Mt. Shasta KMJC · Mt. Shasta KNSQ · North Highlands KQEI · Northridge KCSN · Oxnard KCRU · Pacific Grove KAZU · Palm Springs KPSC · Pasadena KPCC · Philo KZYX · Quincy KQNC · Redding KFPR · Rio Dell KNHT · Sacramento KXJZ · Sacramento KXPR · San Ardo KBDH · Santa Barbara KQSC · Santa Barbara KSBX · San Bernardino KVCR · San Diego KPBS · San Diego KSDS · San Francisco KALW · San Francisco KQED · San Luis Obispo KCBX · San Mateo KCSM · Santa Barbara KFAC · Santa Cruz KUSP · Santa Monica KCRW · Santa Rosa KRCB · Stockton KUOP · Sutter KXJS · Tahoe City KKTO · Thousand Oaks KCLU · Thousand Oaks KDSC · Willits KZYZ · Yreka KNYR · Yreka KSYC |
| See also List of NPR stations | |
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