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Public TV stations KCET and KOCE to merge

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http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-koce-kcet-merger-20180425-story.html

After clawing for seven years over the same turf, Southern California's two large public television stations — KCET and KOCE — are merging to become a stronger voice in local broadcasting.[FONT=&quot]The consolidation, announced Wednesday, will bring together two nonprofit organizations with separate strengths and programming philosophies. KCETLink Media Group, which runs the Los Angeles station, has long enjoyed a prominent profile in the community, but its 2010 decision to sever ties with the national Public Broadcasting Service proved to be a costly blunder.

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[FONT=&quot]Orange County's KOCE-TV picked up the PBS affiliation and its award-winning programming and branded itself as PBS SoCal. But over the years, it too has struggled to win acceptance and prime channel locations from pay-TV operators that would enhance its exposure and fundraising might. Both stations have been hampered by lingering confusion in the market about their roles and programming.
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To say KCET's dropping of PBS was a "costly blunder" is an understatement. Terrible decision and the station has been suffering from bad management for years. How could a station have the resources they have and not succeed? Complete lack of leadership.
 
I wish they did a little fact-checking in that Times article...

It said that KCET launched in 1964 (which is correct), but they mistakenly confused the original 28 license (KTHE, a channel USC tried and failed with) with the one of KCET when the former first launched in 1953. KTHE was the second non-commercial licensed station in the U.S. behind Houston's KUHT.

Now, if KOCE can only find a way to exhume Daystar from its subchannel lineup...
 
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