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Despite the very limited schedule, the station was still losing money, leading to a decision in early 1955 from its board of trustees to close down the station.
The station was originally licensed to Berkeley, but changed its city of license to San Francisco on July 24, 1956.
Newsroom grew out of a 1968 newspaper strike in San Francisco.
In 1970, KQED inherited KNEW-TV (channel 32) from Metromedia, but found they could not operate it without losing money.
KQED's Watsonville satellite station KQET first signed on the air on May 17, 1989, as KCAH, originally operating as a locally owned PBS member station serving the Monterey area.
KQED was co-producer of the television adaptation of Armistead Maupin's novel Tales of the City, which aired on PBS stations nationwide in January 1994.
With financial constraints looming, KQED announced in June 1995 that it would begin showing 30-second advertisements from corporate sponsors the following month.
The station started a school-age channel using some PBS shows plus syndicated show such as Zulu Patrol and Little Amadeus in 2003.
While broadcasting its own kids channel, the station intended to pick up the planned PBS Kids Go! channel when launched in April 2006.
On May 1, 2006, KQED and the KTEH Foundation agreed to merge to form Northern California Public Broadcasting.
On November 11, 2010, KQED and NBR Worldwide, LLC, the owners of PBS business news program, the Nightly Business Report, reached into an agreement to open a bureau in the Silicon Valley in order to enhance coverage of NBR.
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