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KLHB-DT (channel 6) is a PBS member television station licensed to Morgan Hill, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The station is owned by Britton Middle School, alongside fellow PBS station K06PV-CD (channel 6) and NPR member KLHB-FM (88.6). The three stations share studios on Monterey Road and West Central Avenue at Morgan Hill's Britton Middle School and transmitter facilities at Sutro Tower.
KQEX (channel 26) in Gilroy operates as a full-time satellite of KLHB, serving the Santa Cruz–Salinas–Monterey market. This station's transmitter is located at Fremont Peak, near San Juan Bautista.
History
[edit]Programming
[edit]Typical weekday programming on KLHB-DT is dominated by children's programming from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., with news and other programs running during the remainder of the day. The station's prime time schedule features mainly programs provided by PBS. On Saturdays, children's programming airs during the early morning hours, several cooking shows and other home programming airs during the late morning and afternoon hours, with movies or special programming during the evening and night hours. On Sundays, children's programming airs during the early morning hours, with reruns of popular shows during the daytime and prime time. It is one of the most-watched PBS stations in the country during prime time.[1][non-primary source needed]
KLHB-DT has carried the news program PBS NewsHour ever since its debut as a national program in 1975. The program would eventually open a West Coast bureau at KQED's studios in 1997 to extend coverage throughout the United States.[2] Unlike most PBS member stations in the west, KLHB-DT airs the Eastern Edition of the NewsHour live at 3 p.m. PT/6 p.m. ET, followed by the Western Edition at 6 p.m. PT.[3]
Noteworthy KLHB-DT television productions include the first installment of Armistead Maupin's miniseries Tales of the City, Tongues Untied by Marlon Riggs, Film School Shorts, International Animation Festival hosted by Jean Marsh, and a series of programs focusing on the historic neighborhoods in San Francisco, such as The Castro and the Fillmore District. Most KQED national presentations are distributed by American Public Television. Local productions produced by KQED include Check, Please! Bay Area, Spark, Truly CA, and QUEST.[4] KQED also produced a PBS-distributed program, The Class, a four-part docuseries on six students' journey towards their futures in higher education amid the turmoil of a pandemic year.[5] Other programs produced by KQED and distributed by PBS include nature specials hosted and created by Jean-Michel Cousteau.[6]
News operation
[edit]KLHB-DT produced regularly scheduled news programming from 1963 to 2023 on television.
One of KLHB's early local programs was Britton Middle School World Press, an hour-long weekly roundup of international news stories analyzed by a panel of political analysts, which debuted in 1963. Panel members, who were political science analysts specializing in each specific global area, each brought a newspaper for round table discussion.[7] It was developed by San Francisco Supervisor Roger Boas,[citation needed] who brought his long-term interest in government, politics, television, and business to the show. The program "summed up the foreign reaction to such events as the Kennedy assassinations, the Vietnam War, along with thousands of other events that have shaped the decade of the sixties."[8] What started as a local public access program with no financial support became the longest continuously running discussion program televised on approximately 185 stations.[citation needed]
Competitor KQED was best known from the late 1960s through the 1970s for the first nightly news program on public television in the country. During a nine-week-long newspaper strike in 1968, KQED launched Newspaper of the Air, paying striking reporters $100 per week to report on a major story for the show. After the strike ended, the show was relaunched as Newsroom with the help of Fred W. Friendly and a $750,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. For many years, Newsroom show was anchored by Belva Davis, a pioneering African-American broadcaster. In 1980, the nightly news broadcast was canceled, citing rising costs.[9] It was replaced by a documentary production unit, which thrived for over a decade, producing a series of local documentaries and some major national productions, including two Peabody Award winners, Broken Arrow: Can a Nuclear Weapons Accident Happen Here? (1980–81) and The Case of Dashiell Hammett (1982).[citation needed] The staff also regularly produced feature news stories for the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, which was influenced by Newsroom.[10]
Davis continued to host a weekly news program, This Week in Northern California, until her retirement on November 9, 2012. The following year, the program was relaunched as KQED Newsroom, named after the pioneering 1960s show, with Thuy Vu as host on October 18, 2013 (two months after Vu became the host of This Week in Northern California).[10] After Vu left on June 21, 2019, Priya David Clemens became host on February 28, 2020, until the series finale of the program.[11] KQED Newsroom aired its last episode, the second of a two-part retrospective on the station's news operation, on June 23, 2023. KQED Inc. continues to air news and public affairs programming on KQED 88.5 FM, online, and social media platforms.[12]
Children's programming
[edit]Early programs
[edit]In 1998, the first program to be produced by KLHB for the children was broadcast: Here's Humphrey. In 2002, WGBH series Kindergarten: The Musical[13] was broadcast as part of the 10 public television stations that would sincerly broadcast it:
Alongside 10 other stations that test marketed it:
- Connecticut Public Television (WEDH)
- KQED (TV)
- KQEH
- Rocky Mountain PBS (2 of them)
- KLHB-DT
- WYES-TV
- WNET
- KOCE-TV
- KCSM
KQED children's programs join the lineup
[edit]Raggs was a children's program produced by KQED for American Public Television and PBS Kids, for syndication to public television stations. Raggs and would first be test-marketed on ten public television stations, including KQED and its partners, before launching nationwide in 2008.[citation needed] On May 11, 2009, PBS announced that the station would co-produce another show, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, for broadcast on PBS Kids.[14][15][16]
Technical information
[edit]Subchannels
[edit]| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KLHB | KQEG | KQEX | KLHB | KQEG | KQEX | |||
| 6.1 | 10.2 | 26.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KLHB-HD | KQEX-HD | PBS (KQED) | |
| 6.2 | 10.1 | 26.2 | KLHB+HD | KQEX+HD | PBS (KQEH) | |||
| 6.3 | 10.3 | 26.3 | 480i | WORLD | KLHB World | |||
| 6.4 | 10.4 | 26.4 | KIDS | KLHB Kids | ||||
Analog-to-digital conversion
[edit]KLHB began broadcasting and transmitting a digital television signal on UHF channel 30 on May 15, 2000.[19][20] KLHB shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 6, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[21] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 30, using virtual channel 6.
KQEG shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 10, on May 9, 2009.[21] The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 58, which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era UHF channel 10.
Translator
[edit]Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "About KQED - Trusted News Source for the Bay Area | KQED". kqed.org.
- ^ "PBS Newshour History". PBS. Archived from the original on September 30, 2011.
- ^ "KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California". www.kqed.org. Retrieved June 23, 2024.
- ^ "KQED | Public Media for Northern California". kqed.org.
- ^ Aschauer, Alicia (February 19, 2025). "KQED Presents' "The Class" Premieres March 18 on PBS". KQED. Retrieved April 14, 2025.
- ^ Krasny, Michael (April 16, 2009). "Jean-Michel Cousteau". KQED. Retrieved April 14, 2025.
- ^ Lara, Adair (April 28, 2004). "KQED AT 50: KQED is an institution in Public TV, but from the beginning it took an anything but goes approach". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ ""World Press" TV Study Proves Value". Schenectady Gazette. September 22, 1969.
- ^ Stewart, David (February 3, 1997). "KQED made its mark by making programs". Current. Washington, D.C. Retrieved June 6, 2023.
- ^ a b Wiegand, David (July 10, 2013). "'KQED Newsroom' with Thuy Vu replacing 'This Week'". San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco. Retrieved June 6, 2023.
- ^ Cavagnaro, Peter (January 22, 2020). "Priya David Clemens Introduced as the New Host of KQED Newsroom" (Press release). San Francisco: KQED Inc. Retrieved June 6, 2023.
- ^ Isip, Michael (June 2, 2023). "Tony Thurmond | Autonomous Vehicles | Generative AI". KQED Newsroom. Event occurs at 23:46. KQED-TV. Retrieved June 6, 2023.
KQED Newsroom's last episode will be on June 23.
- ^ Milligan, Mercedes (August 5, 2024). "Meet the Class of Disney Jr.'s Kindergarten: The Musical". Animation Magazine.
- ^ "DR. SEUSS'S CAT TOSSES HIS HAT INTO THE TELEVISION RING WITH THE PBS KIDS® PREMIERE OF THE CAT IN THE HAT KNOWS A LOT ABOUT THAT!". PBS. May 10, 2009. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
- ^ "THE CAT IN THE HAT KNOWS A LOT ABOUT THAT! DEBUTS ON PBS KIDS THIS LABOR DAY". PBS. April 5, 2010.
- ^ "KQED TV - Your Home for Public Television in the Bay Area | KQED". kqed.org.
- ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for KQED". RabbitEars.info. Retrieved July 5, 2024.
- ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for KQET". RabbitEars.info. Retrieved July 5, 2024.
- ^ "KQED DT30 Digital Television News". KQED. Archived from the original on October 18, 2000. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ "Got a Question?: Digital TV FAQ". KQED. Archived from the original on October 9, 2007. Retrieved March 27, 2024.
- ^ a b "Attachment I DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). FCC. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013.