KQED

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===
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 12) 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===
In 1970, NET was replaced by PBS and KQED became one of its founding stations.
===1974–1980===
===1977–1988===
KQED 9 (1977).svg
KQED 1980.PNG
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KQED9-2.png
KQED small 9.png
===1988–2001===
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Essentially the same logo design as the 1977 logo above, but in a sharper typeface.
===2001–present===
4164f.jpeg|On-screen bug
KQED on-screen Bug 2.png|KQED On-Screen Bug (2003-2005)
KQED on-screen Bug 3.png|KQED On-Screen Bug (2005-2010)
KQED on-screen bug.jpg|KQED on-screen bug 2011-2019 (4:3 Version/Stretched)
Screenshot (127).png|Station ID (December 10, 2018–present; Taken from December 10, 2018 at 5:30pm on KQED 9/KQET)
Screenshot (253a).png|Pinkalicious and Peterrific: Star Light, Star Not So Bright/The Opera-Matic on August 26, 2019 at 2:12pm with new bug
Kqed.PNG|New KQED bug (November 4, 2019; became to a 16:9 widescreen presentation on March 2, 2021)
KQED (70th Anniversary logo).jpeg|70th anniversary variant (2024)
==KQET==
===2007–2009===
KQET wordmark continued on station IDs on KQED until 2010 and KQEH until mid-2011.
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