LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) — Local TV station KCET has announced its exit from the Public Broadcasting System due to a dispute with PBS over fees and programming. Beginning in 2011, the Los Angeles-based ...

Los Angeles public television flagship station KCET is severing ties with PBS, it announced today. The station, which is located near Sunset Junction, will become the largest independent public ...

LA's KCET-TV unveils new kids and news programming plans after it decided to end its programming arrangement with PBS amid a fee dispute. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor After previously ...

KCET-TV has already made clear that it will no longer be telling children how to get to “Sesame Street.” But that’s not the only kiddie fare that the public- television station is relinquishing once ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — PBS station KCET said Friday it’s dropping out of the public TV system and going independent because of a dispute over fees and programming. Starting in January, the Los ...

Yet another potential casualty of the Great Recession is Los Angeles’ stalwart public television station, KCET. Struggling, but holding on, the station is facing a lack of underwriters and a ...

So long, “Sesame Street.” And probably “NewsHour,” “Antiques Roadshow,” “Nova,” “Masterpiece” and “ Frontline” too, at least for many Los Angeles TV viewers. After months of fractious negotiations, ...

Unable to renegotiate its deal with PBS, longtime Los Angeles affiliate KCET announced Friday it will go independent and drop the full public television lineup after the end of this year. By Alex Ben ...

KCET, the longtime leading PBS station in Southern California, announced Friday it will cut ties with the PBS network in a dispute over the amount of dues the Los Angeles station is required to ...

The recent announcement that KCET, L.A.'s flagship public television station, cut its ties to PBS as a result of a protracted financial dispute with the network, was met with disbelief. You could hear ...