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| 1954–1965 | 1965–1974 | 1974–1980 | 1977–1988 | 1988–2001 | 2001–present |
KQED, virtual channel 9 (UHF digital channel 30), is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to San Francisco, California, United States and serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The station is owned by Northern California Public Broadcasting, through subsidiary KQED, Inc., alongside fellow PBS station KQEH (channel 54) and National Public Radio (NPR) member KQED-FM (88.5). The three stations share studios on Mariposa Street in San Francisco's Mission District and transmitter facilities atop Sutro Tower.
KQET (virtual and UHF digital channel 25) in Watsonville operates as a full-time satellite of KQED, serving the Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz market. This station's transmitter is located at Fremont Peak, near San Juan Bautista. The station was formerly a satellite of KTEH in San Jose until 2007.
KQED[]
1954–1965[]
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KQED was organized and founded by veteran broadcast journalists James Day and Jonathan Rice as a NET station on June 1, 1953, and first signed on the air on April 5, 1954, as the fourth television station in the San Francisco Bay Area and the sixth public television station in the United States, debuting shortly after the launch of WQED (channel 13) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The station's call letters, Q.E.D., are taken from the Latin phrase, quod erat demonstrandum, commonly used in mathematics.
1965–1974[]
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In 1970, NET was replaced by PBS and KQED became one of its founding stations.
1974–1980[]
1977–1988[]
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1988–2001[]
.svg "KQED (1990s).svg (59 KB)")
Essentially the same logo design as the 1977 logo above, but in a sharper typeface.
2001–present[]
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.jpeg "KQED (70th Anniversary logo).jpeg (20 KB)")
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Production logos and IDs[]
_(Credit_-_Cesar_Blanco).png "KQED (2001) (Credit - Cesar Blanco).png (270 KB)")
_(From_-_Check,_Please!).png "KQED (2012) (From - Check, Please!).png (594 KB)")
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_(Credit_-_Cesar_Blanco).png "KQED (2013) (Credit - Cesar Blanco).png (338 KB)")
_(Credit_-_Cesar_Blanco).png "KQED (2015) (Credit - Cesar Blanco).png (415 KB)")
KQET[]
2007–2010[]
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KQET wordmark continued on station IDs, promos, and bumpers on KQED until 2010 and KQEH until mid-2011.
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