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Check Please! Bay Area

Restaurant reviews with a dash of style, from real people like you! Hosted by Leslie Sbrocco.
Imagemakers

A showcase of short films by emerging filmmakers who could be the next Tarantino or Coppola.
QUEST

Science and nature for and about the Bay Area. Do you know what's in your own backyard?
Jacques Pépin: More Fast Food My Way

The master shows you how to create simple, special meals in minutes
Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures

Follow their explorations of spectacular locales across the globe.
Spark

Spark takes you inside the creative process to witness the challenges and rewards of making art.
This Week in Northern California

The news of the week and more with host Belva Davis.
Truly CA

A showcase of documentary films about California made by independent filmmakers.

As we become aware of transmission problems originating from KQED, KTEH or KQET, we will list them here.

8/27 & 8/29: KQED OTA planned outages

Sutro Tower is currently conducting high level maintenance that requires the various TV stations to be off the air for a few hours overnight, on a rotating basis. KQED’s scheduled outages will be early Friday morning 8/27 apx 12:30am-3am, and early Sunday morning 8/29 apx 12:30am-4am. Of course, reality can always interfere with the best [...]
8/12: KQED, KTEH & KQET status reports

KQED-DT9 (San Francisco) Fiber feeds to Comcast Cable, Astound Cable and AT&T U-verse normal. Over-the-Air transmissions normal, operating at 98-100% power. 100% power = 710 kW. KTEH-DT54 (San Jose) Fiber feeds to Comcast Cable, DirecTV and Dish Network normal. Over-the-Air transmissions normal, operating at 98-100% power. 100% power = 290 kW. KQET-DT25 (Watsonville/Monterey) Fiber feeds [...]
Wed 7/28: KQET DT25 at reduced power

KQET’s transmitter on Fremont Peak will be at reduced power Wed 7/28 from apx noon to 3pm to allow maintenance engineers to safely climb the tower. While most digital tuners should handle the reduction without problem, some distant Over The Air viewers of DT25 may need to “rescan” or “scan add” to restore their tuner’s [...]

To view previous issues and how they were resolved, go to our TV Transmitter Status page.