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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…

James Loper, a founder and past president of KCET, LA’s former longtime PBS outlet, and longtime head of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, has died. His family tells the Los Angeles Times that Loper died Monday at his Pasadena home. He was 81. Loper helped establish KCET while a doctoral student at USC in the…

KCETLink announced today it will eliminate 22 full-time positions as part of a reorganization following its merger. KCET and Bay area-based Link Media announced in October that they were joining forces to create the national independent public media organization KCETLink. That merger came about two years after KCET…

The newly formed KCETLink will be available beginning January 1 in 33 million households via DirecTV and Dish Network as well as 5.6 million in Southern California, where KCET, the nation’s largest indie pubcaster, is based. KCET boss Al Jerome will be CEO. The tie-up comes just about two years after KCET dropped its P…

The sale was for an undisclosed amount. The location is at 4401 West Sunset Boulevard. Transfer doesn’t happen for a year. KCET is now transforming itself into an independent public television…

After serving as PBS’ flagship West Coast station for the past 4 decades, KCET is set to become the largest independent public TV station after failing to reach a new affiliate agreement with PBS, in which the Los Angeles-based station had been seeking fee reduction and greater programming flexibility.  KCET will…