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In 1965 singer Rubén Guevara got his big break on national TV, performing on the ABC musical variety series Shindig! There was just one catch. He had to drop his real name in favor of an acceptably anglo one: Jay P. Mobey. There he was on black and white TV, primetime, shaking his groove thing with Tina Turner and Bo…

KCET topped Spanish-language outlet KVEA to lead the nominations for the 73rd Los Angeles Area Emmys, which the Television Academy announced this morning. The pubcaster scooped 23 noms to the Telemundo station’s 21, with Spectrum News 1 running third with 19. Univision’s KMEX (16) and network O&O ABC7 (12) are the…

Public Media Group of Southern California, the parent company of PBS SoCal and KCET, today announced the election of President and CEO Andrew Russell as chairperson of the Board of Trustees for America's Public Television Stations (APTS). The nonprofit membership organization ensures a strong and financially sound…

Bill Kobin, a pioneering public television executive who ran Los Angeles pubcaster KCET for 13 years and helped launch the careers of Bill Moyers, Huell Howser and many others, died Friday at his home in Brentwood, CA. He was 91. No cause of death was given. Kobin worked as a television journalist in the early days of…

The Television Academy has unveiled nominations for the 72nd Los Angeles Emmy Awards. KCET has re-claimed the top spot with 20 nominations, followed by last year’s leader Spanish-language outlet KMEX with 15. Last year was the first time since 2015 that KMEX had led the nominations outright. KVEA is third with 13…

Spanish-language outlet KMEX leads with the field with 22 nominations for the 71st annual Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, topping KCET’s 19. Read the full list below, and check out the nominations by network here. It’s the first time since 2015 that KMEX has led the noms list outright. Last year it tied with KCET for…

Non-commercial indie outlet KCET walked away with the most trophies at Saturday night’s 70th annual Los Angeles Area Emmys with 11 wins, one more than last year. Spanish language outlet KMEX came in close behind with seven wins. Other winners of the evening included ABC7 and Spectrum SportsNet LA, who both nabbed five…

KCET and KMEX tied for the most nominations for the 70th annual Los Angeles Area Emmys Awards, revealed today. Both got 24 mentions from the Television Academy, nine more than their nearest competitor, KVEA. Spectrum SportsNet, which airs Los Angeles Dodgers, Lakers and Sparks games, was fourth with 13 noms, followed…

KCETLink Media Group (KCET) and PBS SoCal (KOCE), the flagship PBS outlet for Southern California, have agreed to merge the companies. The name of the new organization will be announced with the closing of the merger, which is expected to be completed in the first half of 2018. The transaction is subject to regulatory…

Emmy-winning journalist Val Zavala, who’s been an integral part of the Southern California media landscape for three decades, is retiring at the end of the month. KCET will air a special tribute episode of SoCal Connected, “30 Years With Val Zavala”, on Tuesday February 13 at 8 PM, with an encore on Wednesday…

Former PBS outlet and now-noncommercial indie KCET led the field with 10 wins tonight as the Los Angeles Area Emmys were handed out at the TV Academy’s Saban Media Center in North Hollywood. The 69th annual trophy show saw Spanish-language outlets KVEA and KMEX follow with eight and seven wins, respectively, followed…

Deadline’s film critic and awards columnist Pete Hammond has been tapped as the new host of KCET’s classic film series on the former Los Angeles PBS station. KCET Must See Movies kicks off next month with a trio of Oscar Best Picture winners: Patton, on Friday, September 2; From Here to Eternity on Friday, September 9…