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Programs/Content

With return to KCET, SoCal Connected adds local color amid hard news

By Barry Garron, Freelance Contributor | May 6, 2014

Los Angeles public TV station KCET is bringing back weekly series SoCal Connected after a yearlong hiatus, this time as a mix of hard news and features. The award-winning show will start its sixth season May 14. In previous seasons, SoCal earned a reputation for hard-nosed journalism, along with 17 local Emmys, by covering corruption at the Los Angeles Housing Authority, sweetheart deals involving electronic billboards and the dire consequences of climate change. But after the station dropped its PBS affiliation, it went into an economic tailspin that resulted in the layoffs of 22 employees, including Bret Marcus, SoCal’s executive producer. The show then went on hiatus.

Quick Takes

Afternoon roundup: SoCal Connected returns; Johnson to lead Colorado pubTV

By Andrew Lapin, Freelance Contributor | April 30, 2014

Plus: Kansas threatens to eliminate state pubcasting funding, more on Chip Rogers’ exit from GPB, and pubmedia’s 2015 Nieman Fellows.

Development

Facing financial woes, KCETLink to focus on ‘transmedia’

By Dru Sefton and Ben Mook | May 1, 2013

KCETLink laid off 22 full-time employees April 19, signaling another change of course in the Los Angeles public media organization’s search for financial stability.