10 Facts About KLCS

KLCS is a tertiary PBS member television station in Los Angeles, California, United States.

KLCS' studios are located at the former Downtown Magnets High School campus on West Temple Street in downtown Los Angeles, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson.

KLCS is one of four PBS member stations in the Los Angeles market; the others are KVCR-DT in San Bernardino, which serves the Inland Empire; KOCE-TV in Huntington Beach; and KOCE-TV's sister station KCET in Los Angeles, which KOCE-TV replaced in 2011 as the city's primary PBS station.

Since the spectrum auction in 2018, when KLCS sold its physical channel, it has been a guest on KCET's channel 28 signal.

KLCS remains the fifth most-watched public television station in the country.

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Five years later, on March 3,1972, the FCC granted the district a license to broadcast on channel 58, and the new station signed on the air on November 5,1973, as KLCS, the call letters an apparent acronym for "Los Angeles City Schools".

KLCS was slated to begin high definition broadcasting in the autumn of 2014, but remained in standard definition until April 23,2018, when the station began HD broadcasting at 720p following a reallocation to digital channel 28.

Partnering with the Idea To Reality development team, Saul Davis and Joe Regis, KLCS debuted new station IDs in 2015 featuring Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Bill Nye, Mark Wahlberg, Moby, Flea, and Joaquin Phoenix, as well as new station taglines including "Live Learn Love LA" and "TV's Force For Good".

From 2006 to 2019, KLCS produced the interview show Between the Lines With Barry Kibrick, which was distributed nationally by the National Educational Telecommunications Association.

On September 10,2014, KLCS announced that, following negotiations with KCETLink, the owner of educational independent and former PBS station KCET, it would partake in a channel-sharing arrangement and sell its existing spectrum during the incentive auction.