KOCE 'New Home' of PBS in Southern Cal

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Huntington Beach-based PBS station KOCE will become the full-service PBS outlet for the Southern California region starting Jan. 1.
The station will begin broadcasting the full lineup of PBS programs for Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Santa Barbara and San Bernardino and Ventura counties, and will continue to work with other public stations to completely cover the region.
"KOCE-TV is delighted to expand our lineup of award-winning PBS programming that serves as a mainstay in homes across the country," said KOCE President and CEO Mel Rogers. "We are excited to be the new home of PBS in Southern California and continue to work with PBS stations KVCR and KLCS to build a Southern California Consortium of stations for the region."
The move follows KCET's decision in October to part ways with the PBS network as of Jan. 1 over dues, among other things.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.