PBS SoCal to Merge With KCET
PBS SoCal, licensee of KOCE-TV Huntington Beach, California, is merging with broadcast network KCETLink Media Group, licensee of KCET Los Angeles, they announced Wednesday. It's a “merger of equals” that will create a public media organization serving “more than 18…
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million people living in the Southern California region,” the release said. The new entity will be chaired by KCET Board Chairman Dick Cook, while PBS SoCal President Andrew Russell will be CEO. (See also the personals section of this publication's issue.) The combination will be governed by a 32-person board of trustees made up of 14 members from each of the parent companies and four new appointees. The new organization will continue to operate from the parent companies’ existing locations in Burbank, Costa Mesa and Los Angeles and there won’t be “immediate changes” to broadcast operations or program schedules, the release said. “The name of the new organization will be announced with the closing of the merger, which is expected to be completed in the first half of 2018” subject to regulatory approval, it said.