KOCE-TV
PBS member station in Huntington Beach, California / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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KOCE-TV (channel 50) is a PBS member television station licensed to Huntington Beach, California, United States, serving the Los Angeles area. It is owned by the Public Media Group of Southern California alongside the market's secondary PBS member, KCET (channel 28). The two stations share studios at The Pointe (on West Alameda Avenue and Bob Hope Drive, between The Burbank Studios and Walt Disney Studios complexes) in Burbank; KOCE-TV maintains a secondary studio at the South Coast Corporate Center (in the South Coast Metro area) in Costa Mesa and transmitter facilities atop Mount Harvard (adjacent to Mount Wilson). Since 2011, the station has been branded as PBS SoCal.
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City | Huntington Beach, California |
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Branding | PBS SoCal |
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Owner | Public Media Group of Southern California |
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History | |
First air date | November 20, 1972 (51 years ago) (1972-11-20) |
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Call sign meaning | "Orange County Education" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 4328 |
ERP | 700 kW |
HAAT | 899 m (2,949 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 34°12′47.9″N 118°3′44.3″W |
Translator(s) | see § Translators |
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Website | pbssocal |
KOCE-TV and KCET are two of four PBS member stations serving Greater Los Angeles (the others being San Bernardino–based KVCR-DT [channel 24], which mainly serves the Inland Empire, and the Los Angeles Unified School District–run KLCS [channel 58]).