KQED first went on the air in 1954 and quickly became an integral part of the Bay Area's media and cultural landscape. KQED Public Television 9 produces and acquires programs that inspire, inform and entertain the people of Northern California, broadcasting the best of what is available from PBS and other distributors around the world. The station also produces its own unique programs and collaborates with filmmakers and documentary producers. KQED is consistently the most-watched public television station in the nation in prime time, reaching more than five million viewers each month. The station's viewing area goes as far north as Mendocino, as far south as Monterey, and as far east the Lake Tahoe area and parts of Nevada.
KQED Public Television has been a trailblazer in producing and presenting groundbreaking programs that reflect under-represented communities, including the original Tales of the City, based on Armistead Maupin's books; Tongues Untied, Emmy Award-winning director Marlon Riggs' acclaimed account of black gay life; and Bay Window, which won a national Emmy Award for Community Service for portraying the stories of political asylum in the Bay Area.
KQED produces, co-produces and presents a wide range of television programs—locally, regionally and nationally. Local programs from KQED include Bay Window, which recently won a national Emmy Award for the documentary No Turning Back; Beautiful Bay Area, a series produced in high-definition; Sin, Fire & Gold, a special that traces the history of San Francisco's Barbary Coast; and Intensity TV, a series of curated and themed independent film shorts. National productions include With Eyes Open; Springboard: Exploring the Digital Age; Independent View; Jacques Pépin Celebrates!; Sweeney Todd in Concert: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; And Then One Night: The Making of "Dead Man Walking"; and the Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco series. Additionally, KQED has presented such national programs and series as A Huey P. Newton Story, Livelyhood, Surfing for Life, and Weir Cooking in Wine Country.
KQED's Independent Initiative showcases works by filmmakers around the world, and fosters collaboration between KQED and the Bay Area's internationally renowned filmmaking community. In 2000, KQED became the first public broadcaster in Northern California to begin digital broadcasting of standard and high-definition programs, which can be received by digital televisions on channel 9 (DT9).
Michael Isip is the Executive Director, TV Productions and Programming. Scott Dwyer is the program director.
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