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KQED, virtual channel 9 (UHF digital channel 30), is a PBS member television station located in San Francisco, California, United States. The station is owned by Northern California Public Broadcasting, through subsidiary KQED, Inc., alongside fellow PBS station KQEH (channel 54) and NPR member radio station KQED-FM (88.5). KQED maintains studios located on Mariposa Street in San Francisco's Mission District, and its transmitter is located atop Sutro Tower. KQED's signal is relayed on satellite station KQET (virtual channel 25 and digital channel 58) in Watsonville, which serves the Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz market; that station's transmitter is located at Fremont Peak, near San Juan Bautista. ==History== KQED was organized and founded by veteran broadcast journalists James Day and Jonathan Rice on June 1, 1953, and first signed on the air on April 5, 1954 as the sixth public television station in the United States, debuting shortly after the launch of WQED in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The station's call letters, ''Q.E.D.'', are taken from the Latin phrase, ''quod erat demonstrandum'', commonly used in mathematics.〔http://www.kqed.org/press/newsevents/41.jsp〕 One of KQED's early local programs was ''World Press'', an hour-long weekly roundup of international news stories analyzed by a panel of political analysts, which debuted in 1963. Panel members, who were political science analysts specializing in each specific global area, each brought a newspaper for round table discussion. It was developed by San Francisco Supervisor Roger Boas, who brought his long-term interest in government, politics, television and business to the show. The program "summed up the foreign reaction to such events as the Kennedy assassinations, the Vietnam War, along with thousands of other events that have shaped the decade of the sixties." What started as a local public access program with no financial support became the longest continuously running discussion program televised on approximately 185 stations. In its early days following the station's sign-on, KQED broadcast only twice a week for one hour each day. Despite the very limited schedule, the station was still losing money, leading to a decision in early 1955 from its board of trustees to close down the station. Its staff got the board to keep the station on the air and try to get needed funds from the public in a form of a televised auction, in which celebrities would appear to auction off goods and services donated to the station. While the station still came a little short, it did show that the general public cared to keep KQED on the air. Since then, the auction became a fund-raising tool for many public television stations, though its usage waned in recent years in favor of increased usage of special pledge drives throughout the year.〔''Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television'', by Erik Barnouw; Oxford University Press, 1982〕 In 1970, KQED inherited KNEW-TV (channel 32) from Metromedia, but found they could not operate it without losing money. Various PBS and locally produced programs from KQED would air erratically and at different times of the day on KQEC. In 1988, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revoked KQED's license to operate KQEC, citing excessive off-air time, further charging dishonesty in previous filings with regard to the specific reasons. The alleged dishonesty was in reference to KQED's claim of financial woes for keeping KQEC off the air for most of 1972 through 1977, and again for several months in 1979 and 1980. After being revoked from KQED's hands, the reassigned license was granted to the Minority Television Project (MTP), one of the challengers of the KQED/KQEC filing. The KQEC call letters were changed to KMTP-TV under the new license. During the early 1990s, when the state of California reintroduced the death penalty, the KQED organization waged a legal battle for the right to televise the forthcoming execution of Robert Alton Harris at San Quentin State Prison. The decision to pursue the videotaping of executions was controversial amongst those on both sides of the capital punishment debate. KQED was co-producer of the television adaptation of Armistead Maupin's novel, ''Tales of the City'', which aired on PBS stations nationwide in January 1994. The original six-part series was produced by Britain's public-service Channel 4 Corporation with KQED and PBS' ''American Playhouse''. The six-part miniseries featured gay themes, nudity and illicit drug use in this fictional portrayal of life in 1970s San Francisco. Although the program gave PBS its highest ratings ever for a dramatic program, PBS bowed to threats of federal funding cuts and announced it would not participate in the television production of an adaptation of the second book in the series, ''More Tales of the City''. The film division of KQED was founded by Irving Saraf. On November 11, 2010, KQED and NBR Worldwide, LLC, the owners of PBS business news program, the ''Nightly Business Report'', reached into an agreement to open a bureau in the Silicon Valley in order to enhance coverage of ''NBR''.〔(Press Release: PBS' Nightly Business Report Opens Silicon Valley Bureau )〕 On January 4, 2011, KQED became a default PBS member station for both San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria (becoming available on cable providers in those markets),〔(KQED Public Television Provides Service in San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria )(pdf)〕 following Los Angeles public television station KCET's defection from PBS on January 1, 2011.〔(Los Angeles' KCET-TV sees ratings drop of 50% after it boots PBS to the curb )〕〔()〕〔(KQED expands into southern territory )〕〔(Los Angeles PBS affiliate KCET exits network fold to go independent )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KQED (TV)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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