This website, which is not affiliated with KQED, offers examples of KQED’s past inhouse, award-winning, locally produced broadcast television programming, for educational purposes.

This is a very small representation of the amazing local, on-air broadcast Television and radio programming which KQED has produced inhouse, over many decades.

KQED presenters, programs and series have won many Emmy and Peabody awards throughout the station’s history. Likewise, KQED journalists have won a significant number of SPJ Excellence in Journalism awards since the station’s inception.

KQED Award Winning Staff And Local Productions

KQED should use inhouse production staff to produce a documentary series about the awards which KQED staff and KQED programs have received over the years since the station’s inception.

Live Local On-Air Fundraising Saved KQED Numerous Times

Some programming, like the KQED Auction and KQED inhouse Pledge Breaks, saved the station during difficult economic times by using KQED staff and Bay Area celebrities to discuss the importance of sustaining donations to preserve KQED’s inhouse, locally produced radio and television programming, during live on-air Pledge Breaks.

Member Dollars Once Funded Significant Inhouse On-Air Broadcast Productions

The KQED Board and Management once used a significant portion of our member dollars and donations to produce extraordinary local radio and television programming, all created inhouse by KQED production staff, journalists and local talent, then broadcast for free on-air.

Now, with KQED donors and members providing the sole support for KQED operations, the KQED Board and management should be revised to place the focus on inhouse staff production of local radio and television programming again, with our Pledge and donor dollars.

A web search seems to indicate that allegedly KQED’s broadcast television programming last won Emmy Awards in June of 2021, after KQED’s leadership opted to eliminate most inhouse broadcast television production during budget cuts in 2020, 2024 and 2025, also allegedly eliminating some journalists, plus television and radio production staff. Allegedly, KQED scaled back production of its much loved, multi-Emmy Award winning YouTube video series, Deep Look, which captures the natural world using macro photography and microscopy.

Broadcast All KQED Podcasts And Inhouse Events On-Air

KQED should produce and broadcast a new series of 30 to 60-minute television programs featuring all KQED inhouse events, all KQED promoted off-site events around the Bay Area, plus all KQED YouTube, blog and podcast content. This would allow all content which KQED produces, promotes and hosts, to be viewed by all on-air broadcast radio and television viewers, with no alleged, unintentional discrimination, based on the members’ ability to pay added ticket costs, ability to walk and travel long distances, or members’ ability to afford the additional equipment and internet services needed to experience all content which KQED hosts, promotes and produces.

Every Bay Area member with a television set should have on-air broadcast access to all KQED promoted and produced events, plus all KQED produced content, since members and donors now allegedly fund all KQED operations.

Restore Lost On-Air Broadcast Programs And Production Staff

If you, like me, also want KQED to produce more broadcast television and radio programming, please let KQED know. I now contact KQED Membership first, indicating how I want my Pledge dollars to be spent, before signing up for a Sustaining Pledge or making a larger one-time donation.

Mirror GBH On-Air Fundraising Drive

As stated previously, on October 1, 2025, Current posted “GBH launches $225M fundraising campaign in the wake of federal funding cuts” By Julian Wyllie.

Leadership of WGBH, now rebranded as “GBH”, is allegedly actively raising funds to preserve and expand their on-air television programming production, which serves their alleged 3.5 million-plus, on-air broadcast television region, plus the PBS television system. They allegedly view the loss of Federal funds as a challenge, not as the end of their on-air broadcast television production legacy.

KQED members and donors deserve to have new, expanded KQED Board members and new KQED management, invest time and energies in a similar massive GBH-style fundraising drive, to expand KQED inhouse production of local, on-air broadcast television and radio programming, all produced inhouse by KQED production staff.

I believe that many KQED members would like to see more on-air inhouse, KQED staff produced local television programming about our Bay Area region.

Images And Videos Displayed

Images and videos shown here include The KQED Newsroom Finale, Linda Ronstadt and Pink Floyd at the KQED Studios, Bill Graham, Tony Tiano and Paul Kantner at the 1989 Earthquake Relief Concert: It’s Everybody’s Fault press conference, a Deep Look YouTube video, a tribute to KQED’s Belva Davis produced by Judy Woodruff, the award-wining “Castro” episode from the KQED Neighborhoods of San Francisco series, the Newsroom series, the Peabody Award-winning collaboration with KQED, Luis Valdez and Teatro Campesino, Corridos! Tales of Passion and Revolution (featuring Linda Ronstadt), the passing of Emmy Award winning KQED Assistant Director Linda Giannecchini, plus more linked images and videos. To find more KQED programming, visit San Francisco State University’s online DIVA archives and search for “KQED”.

Please click on the images to view the program content.

(Apologies, the original video captions and images were quite small.)

Linda Ronstadt singing "Break my Mind" into a microphone, with a male bandmember in the background, at KQED TV studios on August 30, 1970.

Bill Graham at the Earthquake Relief Press Conference in 1989.

Belva Davis of "This Week in Northern California" remembered by Judy Woodruff, with a scene showing Davis and panel members on the This Week in Northern California set at KQED .

Four restaurant cooking scenes celebrating the 20th anniversary of the KQED TV program, "Check Please! Bay Area".

Martin Yan in a kitchen chopping ingredients on a cutting board, at KQED studios, for "Yan Can Cook: Cooking Chinese Restaurant Favorites at Home" TV show.

KQED Newsroom program showing Cesar Chavez and another man during the grape boycotts of 1965.

A live performance by Pink Floyd in KQED studios in San Francisco on April 29, 1970, showing band members with guitars and keyboards on stage, with equipment and cables visible.

Sedge Thompson in the December 6, 1981 KQED TV studios, with phone bankers behind him. A crawl in front of Sedge reads, 'PLEDGE NOW! (415) 864-1100'.

Carlos Santana wearing sunglasses and playing an electric guitar at Watsonville High School, one of the three KQED and Bill Graham Earthquake Relief Concert venues, with the donation phone number below him on the screen.

An urban Filmore Street scene in San Francisco showing the Fillmore Auditorium, for the KQED program, The History of The Fillmore.

Closer Look-up KQED series. This episode on the red, cochineal beetle.

A split-screen image with a top view of a plated meal of cooked meat and vegetables on the upper half, and a close-up of a fresh salad with sliced tomatoes, basil, and other vegetables on the lower half. The text overlay says "Jacques Pépin Cooking at Home," and there are subtitles that introduce Jacques Pépin.

Peabody Award-winnning KQED production title, Corridos! Tales of Passion and Revolution.

Multiple cars involved in a highway accident with emergency response vehicles on the scene, to open a KQED news section on the voices behind KQED's Traffic Reports.

KQED Neighborhoods Series - The Castro Episode.

Ginger Casey, host of This Week in Northern California, with excerpts from her years of hosting that series.

Title screen for KQED's Comedy Tonight (1982) comedy show, featuring Dana Carvey in that weekly episode.

A photo of Jim Scalem and Don Schiller at the 1985 KQED Auction.

A photo of Linda Giannecchini receiving and Emmy Award.