Independent Lens
This Emmy award-winning series is like an independent film festival in your living room. Each episode introduces new documentaries and dramas made by independent thinkers: filmmakers who are taking creative risks, calling their own shots and finding untold stories in unexpected places.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
An Honest Liar (#1712) Duration: 1:26:46 STEREO TVPG-L (Secondary audio: none)
Meet James "The Amazing" Randi, the famed magician and self-proclaimed "honest liar" who dedicated his life to exposing frauds. But when dealing with a master deceiver, the truth can be hard to find.
Wildland (#2001) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG (Secondary audio: none)
Young Men and Fire tells the story of a single wildland firefighting crew as they struggle with fear, loyalty, love and defeat all over the course of a single fire season. What emerges is a story of a small group of working-class men, their exterior world, their interior lives, and the fire that lies between.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
Dawnland (#2002) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG (Secondary audio: none)
See how a group of Native and non-Native leaders in Maine came together to acknowledge and address the abuses suffered by Native children in the hands of the child welfare system, illuminating the ongoing crisis of indigenous child removal.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
Farmer/Veteran (#1819) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVPG (Secondary audio: none)
A combat veteran starts a farm to help cultivate a healthier life outside the Army. While the sense of duty he once felt as a soldier returns, his crippling PTSD remains as he and his wife nervously anticipate the birth of their first child.
The Cleaners (#2003H) Duration: 1:26:46 STEREO TVM (Secondary audio: DVI)
Meet the Filipino workers who comb through thousands of online images - particularly on Facebook and YouTube - to monitor and delete offensive, pornographic and incendiary posts.
The Judge (#2004) Duration: 1:26:46 STEREO TVPG (Secondary audio: none)
Take a rare glimpse into Shari'a law (Islamic law), an often misunderstood legal framework for Muslims, told through the eyes of the first woman judge to be appointed to the Middle East's religious courts.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
What Was Ours (#1805) Duration: 56:46 STEREO TVG (Secondary audio: none)
A tribal elder and Vietnam vet, who hasn't left the Wind River Indian Reservation in over 40 years, visits the underground archives of Chicago's Field Museum with two young Arapaho to explore ancestral objects kept in boxes for many years. Together they try to learn how these artifacts vanished from their tribe in the first place.
Welcome to Leith (#1713) Duration: 1:26:46 STEREO TVPG-L (Secondary audio: none)
Explore how residents of a North Dakota town struggle against a notorious white supremacist. As his behavior becomes more threatening, tensions soar and the residents desperately look for ways to expel their unwanted neighbor.
TV Technical Issues
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KQED DT9, Sutro Tower – Mon 8/20 thru Fri 8/24/18
Engineers at Sutro Tower in San Francisco will be doing their annual maintenance work 9am-4pm Mon 8/20 through Fri 8/24. All stations transmitting from Sutro Tower will be dropping to half-power each day, and perhaps moving from main antennas at the top of the tower to auxiliary antennas at the “waist” (middle) of the tower … Continue reading KQED DT9, Sutro Tower – Mon 8/20 thru Fri 8/24/18
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7/27/18: Comcast Ch10 (SD version of KQED Plus)
We are aware that Comcast is not broadcasting KQED Plus, SD version, on Ch 10 throughout most of the Bay Area. There is no problem with KQED’s signal, and the HD version of KQED Plus is still operational on Ch710. KQED Plus is also still available over the air on DT9.2, 54.1 and 25.2. Despite … Continue reading 7/27/18: Comcast Ch10 (SD version of KQED Plus)
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Update 7/27/18: KQET signal restored
DT25.1, 25.2, 25.3, 25.4 UPDATE: Signal restored as of 7:45pm Friday afternoon (original post): KQET’s signal is down due to a break in the 3rd party fiber feed between San Francisco and the uplink reception point at California State University Monterey Bay. The line owner is aware of the issue and working on it.
TV – Transmitter Status
To view previous issues and how they were resolved, go to our TV Technical Issues page.
KQED DTV Channels
KQED 9 / KQET
Channels 9.1, 54.2, 25.1
XFINITY 9 and HD 709
Wave, DirecTV, Dish Network, AT&T U-verse:
Channel # may vary, labeled as KQED, or as KQET in the 831 area code.
Outstanding PBS programming, KQED original productions, and more.
All HD programs
KQED Plus / KQEH
Channels 54.1, 9.2, 25.2
XFINITY 10 and HD 710
Wave, DirecTV, Dish Network, AT&T U-verse:
Channel # may vary, labeled as KQEH
KQED Plus, formerly KTEH.
Unique programs including the best British dramas, mysteries, and comedies.
PBS Kids
Channel 54.4, 25.4, and 9.4
XFINITY 192 (Monterey/Salinas 372 and Sacramento/Fairfield 391)
Wave: Channel # may vary.
Quality children's programming. Live streaming 24/7 at pbskids.org.
KQED World
Channel 9.3, 54.3 and 25.3
XFINITY 190 Monterey/Salinas 371 and Sacramento/Fairfield 390)
Wave: Channel # may vary.
Thought-provoking television — public affairs,
local and world events, nature, history, and science.