KPBS history

The award-winning film When Peace Comes, a documentary about San Diego, a military town confronted with the prospect of peace, aired in 1968.

Another leap forward was taken in 1969 with the founding of the national Public Broadcasting Service, while at the local level there was tremendous excitement over the assignment of a Sesame Street producer, who, with the aid of the KEBS crew, filmed sequences at the San Diego Zoo.

In 1970, PBS began to distribute programs to stations across the country and KEBS officially changed its call letters to KPBS, forever aligning itself with the mothership.

Masterpiece Theatre arrived in 1971, creating quite a stir, but as the station’s first five years were coming to a close, the main topic of conversation was the conversion from black and white to color.

Karlo’s career began at KPBS in 1973 when he worked as a part time assistant while attending San Diego State University.

A new editor, Kathleen Peck, was announced for the KPBS GUIDE in the February 1974 issue.

That was four years before the original 1975 United States airing of The Ascent of Man, and while Kaye was still at KPBS. The conversations were replayed.

Among other notable programs aired on KPBS in this five-year period was the first of 37 plays of Shakespeare in 1979.

At the same time, Ken Burns’ Brooklyn Bridge documentary was distributed to PBS stations in 1982.

When American Playhouse broadcast the production of The Skin of Our Teeth live from San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre in 1983, it was a “first” precisely because it was live.

The most significant local program produced in 1985 was The Lemon Grove Incident, which told of the first successful legal challenge to segregation in United States schools, a story that would remain relevant.

The plug was pulled on the station’s auction following the 1987 iteration, and KPBS tested “Pledge Lite,” which had only half the number of pledge breaks during the drive.

The end of 1989 saw Newsweek San Diego reinvent itself and adopt a fresh name, San Diego Week.

The year 1992 saw work begin on …And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him, an adaptation of the Tomas Rivera novel.

The Krikunov & Partners Group was established by Andrey Krikunov in 1996 with the aim of providing quality services to large-size companies and organisations.

Later on, the successful development of the business lead to an expansion of the range of services by establishing new companies within the Group, including the company "Krikunov and Partners Business Systems" in 1999.

A tough test of the organisational and technical solutions offered by Krikunov and Partners Business Systems was the power emergency in Moscow on 25 May 2005 (the so-called Moscow Blackout) involving power cut-off in the central and southern districts of Moscow for almost an entire day.

He remained Artistic Director of the Globe for the next 26 years, through 2007.

Since year 2008, the key strategic line of the company has been development of its own products (Lynx, SIS, ForSaGe, and business automation monitoring systems) and development of custom-made software for the particular needs of the customer.

Years later and after fulfilling multiple other roles, Karlo was promoted to associate general manager, a position he held for over a decade, before becoming general manager in February 2009.