Category: KQED Public Television Featured Releases

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Award–winning documentary CALIFORNIA STATE OF MIND: The Legacy of Pat Brown takes a personal look at the “Godfather of Modern California.”

This national KQED presentation airs Monday, June 25, at 9pm on KQED 9. Governor Brown’s granddaughter and acclaimed filmmaker Sascha Rice created the film with full access to his personal photos and documents. KQED, the public media company that serves Northern California, is proud to present the Bay Area television debut of the award–winning documentary [...]

KQED Honored with 17 Northern California Emmy® Award Nominations

KQED Honored with 17 Northern California Emmy® Award Nominations

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, May 9, 2012 – KQED, the public media organization that serves Northern California, is pleased to announce 17 nominations for the 2012 Northern California Emmy® Awards for its public television stations KQED and KQED Plus. The programs recognized include QUEST, a local series concentrating on science, nature, and the environment; This is [...]

June 2012 Highlights for KQED Public Television

June 2012 Highlights for KQED Public Television

Two documentaries about California receive their broadcast premiere in June: California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown (a KQED national presentation) and Independent Lens: We Were Here. Also launching this month are the PBS Arts Summer Festival and POV’s silver anniversary season. KQED rounds the month out with incredible fiction works: a Downton [...]

May 2012 Highlights on KQED Public Television

May 2012 Highlights on KQED Public Television

This month brings an eclectic collection of programming to KQED: the premiere of a documentary on a timeless American icon, the return of the beloved series Sherlock, great entertainment and Oscar–nominated documentaries to honor our veterans on Memorial Day and a wide-range of programs to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Here is a highlight [...]

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Cheers to the Season Premiere of Check, Please! Bay Area

New episodes of the award–winning program air Thursday, April 26, at 7:30pm on KQED 9. April 5, 2012, San Francisco, CA — What do an account executive, cookbook author and renewable energy forecaster have in common? They’re all guests in the premiere episode of Check, Please! Bay Area’s seventh season. In the James Beard and [...]

April 2012 Highlights for KQED Public Television

April is the month of premieres: From the highly-awaited PBS series America Revealed to three diverse local shows launching new episodes — there’s something on KQED for everyone. And Downton Abbey might have wrapped its second season, but Masterpiece Classic is still alive and well with celebrated adaptations of two masterpieces by Charles Dickens. Here [...]

Download hi-res JPG: Belva Davis, host of This Week in Northern California. Photo credit: Greg Habiby © KQED 2009.

KQED’s Belva Davis to Retire

This Week in Northern California host will lead KQED Public Television’s expanded coverage of the 2012 local and national elections. Davis’ final broadcast set for November 9 San Francisco, California, February 20, 2012—Belva Davis, the award-winning host of This Week in Northern California on KQED Public Television, has announced that she will retire from the [...]

Joanne Weir’s Cooking Confidence Debuts

Joanne Weir’s Cooking Confidence Debuts

Teacher and Chef Joanne Weir Debuts New Public Television Series « I don’t know that there are many other things I could have done with my life. » 26-Episode Joanne Weir’s Cooking Confidence debuts nationally on January 7 KQED Presents Joanne Weir’s Cooking Confidence, Taking Students and Viewers into the Popular Chef’s Own Kitchen Joanne [...]

Revolutionaries, a New Series Featuring Tech’s Greatest Innovators

Revolutionaries includes in-depth interviews with Mark Zuckerberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Paul Allen and other tech luminaries San Francisco, December 19, 2011—Revolutionaries, a new 13-part television series produced by the Computer History Museum in association with KQED Public Television, will premiere on Monday, January 16, at 7:00pm on KQED Plus (channel 54, cable 10). Repeats of the [...]

The Art of Doing it Yourself to Premiere Nationally on PBS

KQED’s Original Mini-Doc to be Seen Nationally on PBS The Art of Doing it Yourself to be part of the PBS Arts Festival, Airing December 16 or Anytime Online at KQED.org  San Francisco, November 29, 2011­—San Franciscohas one of the most eclectic arts scenes of any city in America. Recognizing the wide diversity of artistic [...]